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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by egypturnash »

joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

From the top post on the creator's Mastodon account (see the 'socials' link on the site):

"I’ve had a long-standing love of stickers on laptops. I know a lot of you do too! So I built a site to highlight them. At Hope next week I’ll take as many pics (with permission) of the best stickered laptops I can find and post them.

It’s always sad when a laptop gets upgraded, the old one tossed, and that sticker canvas is lost. I’m trying to preserve it.

Please submit pics of your laptops so I can “seed the tip jar,” as it were."

I'm sure there's people out there with laptops blaring their right-wing opinions but I doubt many of them were at a hacker con like HOPE.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by soulofmischief »

sien wrote: post #24

It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one. I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists. They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same. This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the artists as well, they all dressed…

You might find that a lack of right wing stickers has to do do with the fact that most educated people today, such as hackers, who also historically deal with otherness and thus form protective communities, have zero interest in supporting fascist, hateful ideals nor their institutions.

It is positively ridiculous to ridicule a group of people for being "samey" while also lamenting that they do not support policies which historically aim to keep things the same and assimilate/homogenize those who do not fit into perceived societal norms.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by crazygringo »

thewebguyd wrote: post #84
SchemaLoad wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure there is some content that is obviously not appropriate, but I'm not seeing it in the OP link. Meanwhile the comments here are filled with a thinly veiled anger over seeing rainbow flag stickers. These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace. Though I've never met someone like this in the office. Or at least they keep their thoughts to themselves offline.

> These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace. Same. If my stickers serve as a self-filter away from companies I'd rather not work at, or people I'd rather not work with, then that's a positive thing for me. If someone's offended by, for example, a rainbow sticker on my laptop, well I'd rather not work with them, or for that company. I'll look elsewhere.

I've never seen anyone get offended by a rainbow sticker at work, at least not anywhere I've ever worked.

I have seen things that came across as misogynistic or very sexually suggestive, however, and the employee had to be asked to remove them.

There are plenty of cases where the problem really is with the employee and the sticker, not the people taking offense.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ajmurmann »

arcfour wrote: post #72
bitbasher wrote: post #4

I get the feeling about 90% of those laptops belong to either cyber security folks or rust developers. Just a gut feeling.

It's funny, I am in cybersecurity but I have always liked keeping my laptop free of stickers. Always seemed like "trying too hard" to me. And as much as I love my laptop, much like my Fluke 87V, I value it as a tool, not a means of self-expression. Maybe I am just boring, lol. I did use an original copy of the PGP source code book as a monitor stand though!

I used to keep my laptop sticker free. I changed that once I discovered how much easier it makes it to recognize which laptop is mine. This was really driven home when one year everyone at work was gifted the same macBook Air as a holiday gift by the company.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by [deleted] »

joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

Sometime around 2015 American political conservatism abandoned a substantive policy identity for demagoguery and nihilism, and while electorally successful to an extent, it's socially unpopular among the general population that's of working/laptop-using age.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by culi »

ge96 wrote: post #6

It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered in stickers I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg. I don't daily drive Rust but I like the crab and the Gopher Kinkpad lol that's good

This is why I've always wanted some sort of removable skin I can put my stickers on and be able to take them with me when I need to depart with my device

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by c0nsumer »

ge96 wrote: post #6

It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered in stickers I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg. I don't daily drive Rust but I like the crab and the Gopher Kinkpad lol that's good

I regularly see pallets of laptops turned in (either due to refreshes or end-of-employment stuff) for a major manufacturing / engineering (car) company. They are just as stickered, but with automotive nerdery. It's pretty neat.

And seeing just /how/ many laptops are that way it made me feel a lot less weird about putting stickers on "my" work laptop.

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