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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tbrownaw »

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.

> Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you.

I didn't see any Java or COBOL or even .NET stickers, but there was at least a fairly clean one with a Sun sticker. And some Debian stickers, but those were a bit more cluttered. And maybe even that one with the cat around the Apple logo.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by braden-lk »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #202
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.

I don't see much hostility at all. A few people don't like them. That's not weird hostility, isn't it just self-expression? Like the stickers that oppose or express a dislike of something, which presumably aren't weird hostility either. People are allowed to dislike or disagree or make not entirely positive comments. Sure some would just scroll on, arguably that's the better thing to do, but commenting in self-expres…

Do you see me petitioning the site to remove their comment? They are welcome to have bad taste and a bad attitude.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by lisdexan »

sien wrote: post #240
lisdexan wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. If one of the laptops had a libertarian flag added, suddenly it would become "creative"? All these photos⁰¹²³⁴ are aesthetically distinct. Sure, you can see trends in the website but that's always a thing, specially considering nobody there is designing stickers. I also fin…

Fair point. I didn't mean to imply people's politics means they are creative or not. But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creatively, write creatively, draw creatively or make music. If you said to someone who is a comedian or a writer that you were 'creative too' because of your laptop stickers. Well. C'mon. The po…

(I misunderstood you then, sorry!)

Well, the subtitle is "a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world". Meaning that the sticker themselves are creative, not necessarily the collage, which it also can be art by itself (I wouldn't say it fits here)

>But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creatively, write creatively, draw creatively or make music.

I think a certain selection and positioning can be creative.

>If you said to someone who is a comedian or a writer that you were 'creative too' because of your laptop stickers. Well. C'mon.

Depends, is the comedian Jerry Seinfeld?

I'm kidding (kinda). I personally understand creativity as something very much lower stakes, but that might be my ESL showing.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by doublepg23 »

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 was just telling my buddy the same thing. It was our first SSD in HS. Mine eventually died with double the guaranteed TBW.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by viraptor »

bad_username wrote: post #204
viraptor wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen a conservative sticker on a laptop before. Then again, stickers, tags, etc. are more of an anti establishment thing. Those things don't mesh well with conservative views.

Hasn't the establishment been non-conservatuve at least half of the time for the past 20 years?

In which countries? Most have major parties that are conservative and conservative-light.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by astura »

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.

My friend sells cute stickers she designs herself on Etsy.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by lisdexan »

subjectsigma wrote: post #201

“We’re all unique and special, just like everyone else” (Some of the stickers are kind of cool, but I just can’t understand the logic behind thinking your MacBook #12,372 with a Python sticker on the back is worth flaunting online)

The same logic applies to commenting on forums. Or doing anything publicly really.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by vvpan »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #187

you can tell who's old... i see 6 cDc stickers, 3 L0pht stickers, 1 HNN, 1 attrition. i see SUN and 3dfx, that's pretty tight. i lol'd at "libc.so.6"

Haven't heard about cDc in about 20 years. Are they still active as a collective in any way?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SchemaLoad »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #179

I think it's cool, but I could never see myself doing it, because I used to go through a new laptop every couple of years. In any case, the point is moot, now. I switched to using a desktop, in my last upgrade since retiring.

For the precious stickers, I stick them on magnetic sheet and then cut the sheet to shape, turning the stickers in to fridge magnets.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by squigz »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #202
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.

I don't see much hostility at all. A few people don't like them. That's not weird hostility, isn't it just self-expression? Like the stickers that oppose or express a dislike of something, which presumably aren't weird hostility either. People are allowed to dislike or disagree or make not entirely positive comments. Sure some would just scroll on, arguably that's the better thing to do, but commenting in self-expres…

If you go to an art show and are like, "Wow, these all suck! Why didn't any of you artists do art the way I think it should be done?!"

That's not self-expression. That's being an asshole.

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