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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by beeflet »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #52
reaperducer wrote: post #36

Where do people buy laptop stickers these days? My wife got a new computer a few months and couldn't find anything cute and tasteful. Everything was brands and anger. The places she used to use are gone, and Amazon proved useless.

Most of the stickers I've got have just been given to me. At house parties or conventions or with clothes I bought. I've then commissioned an artist to draw my own stickers which I got printed and hand out. Stickers get handed around like business cards so the stickers on your laptop/fridge are almost like a record of the people you met.

I agree, I much prefer to just use stickers of random stuff I get

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by beeflet »

Kye wrote: post #114

One of mine is on quite a few laptops and at least one server: https://shop.kyefox.com/products/were-here-were-queer-connec... I was hoping, though not expecting, to spot it in here.

but damn $14

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by binary132 »

It seems to me that about 10-15 years ago, laptop stickers were a little more like patches on a punk jacket; that is, they were meant to show something about the cons or competitions you have participated in. A few such places would give out stickers.

At some point, people saw the cool-looking stickered-up laptops and thought they would also look cool and put fun stickers on their laptops to show that they also can google things. This diluted the original social signal value until it was completely ubiquitous, kind of like if everyone started putting whatever patches appeal to them on whatever jacket they wear without any thought to the idea of their origin. By that time, the original sticker-signalers had all moved on to other signals.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by neilv »

Animats wrote: post #18

There are laptops with a display on the outside to display stickers.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrINRHeNDQA

This tech looks like it would be annoying to other people in a cafe/workplace/etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1drVhn0hLiI&t=40s

What I think would be ideal with current tech is non-backlit e-ink color. Maybe displaying a static image that usually doesn't change while at a location.

You could use e-ink display changes when switching between modes, for example:

* corporate in-office staid, or internal team flair;

* trade conference switch to promoting company brands, rather than internal flairs;

* corporate in-office using it to indicate when you're in focus mode or on a call and less interruptible (actually, you could maybe use the LEDs for on-call mode, a rare instance when you might want the more attention than e-ink);

* traveling with work laptop, but at a cafe or lounge, and want to signal social sensibilities for meeting people personally.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

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.

In the early to mid 90's, geek culture had a thing for ironic agitprop. Great stuff... deeply cynical and very Gen X.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by JoshTriplett »

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).

> As someone based outside of the US, I rarely see people with stickers on their laptop.

I see them at technical conferences in many different parts of the world, with people from many different parts of the world. It's not a US thing.

And many of the sticker pictures on this site appear to be from European countries, including at least Finland and Germany.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by brailsafe »

beeflet wrote: post #127
tihi wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats a weird takeaway, why can't you let people enjoy things that don't affect you?

It does effect me. If it didn't effect anyone, no one would do it. Tattoos, stickers, etc. are a form of social signalling. Maybe they disagree with what's being signalled, or the act of signalling itself.

Tattoos have a very different level of commitment, and neither need to be anything more than decoration or affect you. They can be vaguely amusing, totally innocuous, slightly differentiating for practical purposes, all kinds of things. I used to have an "I <3 Beaver" sticker on mine, no need to overthink it.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by neilv »

Terr_ wrote: post #111
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 what…

Good catch. Like the reason that house key ring lost&found tags have an intermediary's address on them, rather than identify the other directly.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by swah »

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?

I guess it makes you more fireable...
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