A post on lemmy.ml from a fellow hexbear about “rice” being so heavily used in Unixporn to describe user desktop customizations.

At least where I was, there were basically zero Asians, “ricers” were (typically but not exclusively) Japanese cars that were customized terribly, as someone else mentioned, all show and no go. You could have American ricers too. The owners, the “rice boys”, were pretty much all white guys…

source: https://hexbear.net/post/403920