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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rc5150 »

speff wrote: post #90
imiric wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How am I stopping anyone's enjoyment? Why can't you let me voice my opinion?

It's got the same vibe as going into a circle of people having fun and telling them they're trying too hard. What's the effect you're going for? You're not being stopped from having an opinion - your comment is visible - but sharing one that'll only serve to bring down people's moods makes everything a little bit worse I think.

If you're in a circle of people whose moods can be brought down because of a shared opinion, you're in a circle of prepubescent children who haven't learned to regulate their emotions like a grown up.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by sandspar »

rc5150 wrote: post #287
sandspar wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every American conservative knows the feeling of being at work and your liberal coworkers, not knowing you're conservative, start going on a rant about how terrible Republicans are and how stupid they are and how they all deserve jail etc. In America today, liberals feel very comfortable speaking about their views in public. Conservatives don't.

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Thank you for proving my point.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tbrownaw »

Lammy wrote: post #60
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

One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.

Leave the backing on the sticker, put it on the laptop with rubber cement.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by defrost »

litbear2022 wrote: post #294

I think some people would be very interested in similar satirical stickers.Unfortunately, this link is sold out. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005005801847872.html

I was hoping for a link to a series of stickers such as "spit", "gum", "string", "paperclips", with graphics including a band-aid and a pair of tin cans.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by EagnaIonat »

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.

Our cyber security team told people not to put stickers on the laptop as it can be used to spear phish the owner, can open to industrial espionage.

They even showed us this cheesy video showing.

1. A woman chatting up a developer based on their stickers on the laptop they saw earlier. 2. Someone targeting the laptop for theft because of the stickers.

People still do it, but I've only seen it on the junior people trying to express who they are.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tbrownaw »

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.

My work laptop has a hard-to-damage sticker on the bottom with inventory control information. Company name, serial number, hostname suffix, etc

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by squigz »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #290
squigz wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think it is different. If it were not different you would not have been compelled to think of it. Not actually responding to the essence of the comparison. > Now you don't like "comparisons"? Just bad-faith comparisons that equate "Just Be Yourself" stickers with "I hate fags" stickers > Expressing a dislike for something is not incompatible with live and let live. It is participating in a conversation. It's not…

> Not actually responding to the essence of the comparison. The comparison was a bad-faith strawman that did not reflect the conversation here. In that situation a person might be an asshole, possibly even hostile. That does not automatically make these commenters hostile assholes, that's just the height of intellectual laziness. > Just bad-faith comparisons that equate "Just Be Yourself" stickers with "I hate fags"…

"People expressing their hatred for art in impolite terms" is not hostile to you? What exactly would hostility in this context look like to you? Or is it just not possible to be hostile about this?
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