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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Terr_ »

andy99 wrote: post #105

I’ve seen it fairly commonly for people to have company stickers on their laptop and have worked places that distribute these stickers. I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop. Self expression is fine, I personally want the most boring looking computer possible

> I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop.

One day the company was giving employees some swag, little retractable lanyard-things, branded with the company name and logo, for each of our anonymous white RFID keycards.

I, uh, escalated my concerns that this meant anyone who stole/found a keycard would also know where they could go use it. For whatever reason, that particular swag stopped being available.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by JSR_FDED »

wlesieutre wrote: post #54
Findecanor wrote: post #34

The only one I liked is the HAL sticker. Hmm... Does the current crop of Apple laptops have a glowing Apple logo? ... and is there a HAL sticker that has a red lens in the middle that would glow red if I put it over the Apple logo?

No glowing logo since before the USB-C/touchbar generation, about 10 years ago

When Apple was making a comeback from being all but dead, the logo was a quick way to identify other members of your tribe. And you could walk into a coffee shop and get an instant tally of how Apple was doing. It was really precarious for a time, and then after some months it became reassuring and then some more months and you could stop worrying altogether.

Hard to believe that was ever the case!

Iconic photo from 2007: https://macdailynews.com/2007/10/02/lecture_hall_photo_shows...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by [deleted] »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #106
braden-lk wrote: post #29

These comments are rough. Some weird hostility to self-expression in here. "Back in my day, laptops were about TECHNOLOGY! Where's the conservative stickers!?" Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you. I was born in early 90s; all laptops in my memory have weird, silly stickers on them.

To be fair, I bet pictures with "Yay Facism!" stickers are probably taken down, as they should be.

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by thunderfork »

lolllolol wrote: post #109
fao_ wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've met people like them in the office. My first job, people were deadnaming Chelsea Manning in the internal chat. One time I got stuck in a lift with two other people and they assumed I was a guy, and started talking about which of the HR reps they wanted to fuck. It was tedious and stressful, and the company did have an anonymous reporting system, sure; but fuck, there were only three people in the lift, anonymity…

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by sheepybloke »

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

That's why I always have a clear case on my Macbook I cover with stickers. That way, I can take them with me when I leave, or take them off if I have a big meeting/presentation!

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by zerocrates »

nntwozz wrote: post #28

Ha, what a throwback! I remember this one with the Intel SSD sticker: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-320-ssd-300-gb/imag... https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_6571.JPEG "The Intel SSD 320 is the much anticipated follow-up to the Intel X25-M, easily the most popular consumer SSD to date." https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-ssd-320-review-30... Time flies, such a nice upgrade back in th…

I definitely got one or more of those stickers with some Intel SATA SSDs... sadly those I think have been the ones I had the worst luck with. I think they were one of those series that had some really bad write amplification problem or something like that, due to I think some issue with their power-saving implementation.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Gigachad »

koyote wrote: post #108
dinkleberg wrote: post #12

Wow most of these are quite the contrast to what I used to see back in the day. At least in my circles it was just a collection of the technologies you’ve learned and enjoy. These are more like bumper stickers on the back of car. To each their own I suppose.

I wonder if stickers in general are more common in the US just like bumper stickers are. As someone based outside of the US, I rarely see people with stickers on their laptop. The very vast majority of cars also do not have bumper stickers here (and those that do might have one at most).

Stickers are popular in loads of places. They are all over the street in Australia. While I was in Italy and the UK they seemed even more common.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rockostrich »

dinkleberg wrote: post #12

Wow most of these are quite the contrast to what I used to see back in the day. At least in my circles it was just a collection of the technologies you’ve learned and enjoy. These are more like bumper stickers on the back of car. To each their own I suppose.

During undergrad/grad school it was always whatever free stickers were available at hackathons. Now I usually just put 1 or 2 unique stickers to distinguish my MBP from others. Currently rocking one that's an illustration that my friend made of their dog with its tongue out.
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