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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by jader201 »

brailsafe wrote: post #142
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.

It's hilarious how ready to be angry people are, these are mosaics and all we have if pro laptops are destined to be grey or less grey

I mean, some of these stickers could just represent self expression of anger.

It’s interesting the top comment is a self expression against people’s self expression against the self expression of the stickers.

Everything here seems to boil down to self expression. Even the flags and downvotes of the content at the bottom is a form of self expression.

This comment is my self expression about all the inception of self expression.

And now my brain hurts.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by brewdad »

generalizations wrote: post #214
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?

A rule of thumb among your friends: those who don’t talk politics are the conservative ones. Similarly, I’d wager most of the examples here without overtly progressive stickers are conservative.

Depends on where you live. Around me the conservatives are more than willing to offer their political opinions even when the context doesn't fit. Progressive/Liberal folks tend to be less vocal because we already know where we stand with each other and don't want to invite the loudmouth to go off.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tbrownaw »

crazygringo wrote: post #230
113 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering how many of these stickers are about being gay or trans, compromising about expressing yourself sounds pretty grim. I wouldn't want to put that aside to get on with my co-workers.

Like I said in another comment, other coworkers of mine have tried to express themselves through misogynistic or sexually suggestive stickers. I wouldn't suggest having a Diddy sticker or anything right now. My only point is that the "if someone is offended, that's their problem" attitude is not so black and white. People often use it to justify being an a**hole too. Obviously , gay or trans stickers are not in the c…

> Obviously, gay or trans stickers are not in the category of offensive things.

It's at least plausible to taxonomize them under either politics or sexuality. Either of which larger categories some might consider categorically offensive or inappropriate.

Yes, I'm also saying that "vote for $PARTY" (categorically; regardless of which party) and anime catgirls are both potentially offensive or inappropriate. Depending on how much of a stick-in-the-mud people in your local environs are.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by DocTomoe »

thatcat wrote: post #208
rmunn wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There was some paper that associated number of stickers on a car with extremety of their tribal group beliefs and more aggressive driving. I don't think it transfers to laptops

Considering where most of the pictured laptops (likely) originate from, I would beg to differ.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by squigz »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #267
squigz wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Okay. Were you hoping I would address this scenario of your own fabrication, or are you able to make your point using this actual situation right in front of us that we are discussing? People self-expressing dislike for some content under a link on public forum that explicitly invites comment is not hostility. Making comments and disagreement about politics is not hostility (particularly in response to political cont…

> Okay. Were you hoping I would address this scenario of your own fabrication, or are you able to make your point using this actual situation right in front of us that we are discussing?

It's not a "scenario" - it's a comparison, an example. It's no different to this forum - people choose to come here. Someone chose to share TFA. People chose to enter these comments and shit on people's design choices and take weird stands about political balance.

> If you posted up a page of pictures of "Lifted trucks of West Virginia adorned with creative bumper stickers" here you would get a lot of negative opinions and politcial commentary. That also would not be "weird hostility", it would be completely obvious and understandable preferences and opinions ranging from people who don't like the trucks or covering them with stickers, to those who feel strongly about politics.

Sure, these are obviously the same...

> Again, you're allowed to discuss things and disagree with them. People aren't assholes or hostile for doing it. Learn to live and let live, no need to try to guilt people about it.

Those people could "learn to live and let live" with regards to people harmlessly putting stickers on their laptops.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ehnto »

I've done this on my current laptop, and when it eventually stops serving me I will frame the lid as a humble piece of art for my office. (7 year old HP running linux, need to replace the battery soon but otherwise still perfectly serviceable)

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ehnto »

shagie wrote: post #26
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.

When I was going to conferences, my laptop stickers were a public display of "these are technologies that I use and you can strike up a conversation with me about them." To an extent, a resume that you can glance at from across the room. It's a bit of a statement for what you're trying to communicate with that lid - professional experience, political statements, personal "this is neat"... And part of this is a for me…

I have a bunch of stickers from hobbies like bikes and sim racing. I guess it serves a similar purpose!

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by INTPenis »

bitbasher wrote: post #101
mindcrime wrote: post #94

I don't have a great picture of mine that isn't obscured by other "stuff" in frame, but for an idea of what my laptop looks like, see: https://fogbeam.com/free-kevin.jpg

I never understood people siding with Kevin. He always struck me as a fraud/pseudo-hacker and never did anything technical or substantial.

Once you understand that everything in this world is a system, then you'll see how he was a true hacker.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by esseph »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #165
esseph wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is still not a quarter as sensitive as most corporations that aren't tech.

Most other industries are very exposed to external clients or customers. Software developers who sit in an office and only see other internal employees have no reason cover up their personality like that.

Just about every enterprise has tech, and there are many, many sectors. There's also far more "tech folks" than developers at most companies, nor do all companies have devs on staff.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tbrownaw »

dylan604 wrote: post #246
SchemaLoad wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You joke, but I had someone tell me they were taken for questioning on entry to the US because their laptop had EFF stickers with some slightly edgy hacker culture phrases on them.

I'm sorry, but what makes you think I was joking? I have seen a co-worker get pulled aside for additional screening because he wore a t-shirt that had the words of the second amendment or some such printed in a way of looking like a pair of pistols. On the same flight, we sat with another individual who got himself arrested, missed his flight, and was eventually released to sit on our flight because he wore a belt ad…

> On the same flight, we sat with another individual who got himself arrested, missed his flight, and was eventually released to sit on our flight because he wore a belt adorned with bullet shells cut in half.

I've heard of similar things before, and had the sense that this was less screeners being dumb and more legislators not fuzz-testing their work.

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