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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

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 annoying to me that you're not allowed to even slightly critique things anymore without people blurting out the thought-terminating cliché "Let people enjoy things!", which attempts to do nothing more than shut down interesting conversation because somebody doesn't like said conversation. (Let people enjoy critiquing?) It's behaviour like this that makes me dread the inevitable Reddit exodus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

soulofmischief wrote: post #92
sien wrote: post #24

It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. 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. I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists. They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same. This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the artists as well, they all dressed…

You might find that a lack of right wing stickers has to do do with the fact that most educated people today, such as hackers, who also historically deal with otherness and thus form protective communities, have zero interest in supporting fascist, hateful ideals nor their institutions. It is positively ridiculous to ridicule a group of people for being "samey" while also lamenting that they do not support policies w…

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by maxlin »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #318
maxlin wrote: post #317

Stickers themselves can be fun and quirky, but I for the life of me can't figure out why people would put such extremely divisive and workplace-unnecessary messaging on their MAIN WORK DEVICE as many of these have. The kind of lack to integrate to a team having your pride flags, literal death threats to perceived enemies, furries, loli anime, etc on a thing you intend to bring to the workplace to do all your work on…

What's wrong with a pride flag? People commonly display their hetero marriages etc. at workplaces too. If either of those cause division in a workplace, that's a matter for HR or legal to resolve (if it is indeed a disruption). Anyway it's unclear which of these are brought into offices.

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

arcfour wrote: post #72
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.

It's funny, I am in cybersecurity but I have always liked keeping my laptop free of stickers. Always seemed like "trying too hard" to me. And as much as I love my laptop, much like my Fluke 87V, I value it as a tool, not a means of self-expression. Maybe I am just boring, lol. I did use an original copy of the PGP source code book as a monitor stand though!

> Always seemed like "trying too hard" to me.

My thoughts exactly. It feels very much like they're roleplaying as an ordinary person's idea of a "hacker".

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by mjhagen »

maxlin wrote: post #317

Stickers themselves can be fun and quirky, but I for the life of me can't figure out why people would put such extremely divisive and workplace-unnecessary messaging on their MAIN WORK DEVICE as many of these have. The kind of lack to integrate to a team having your pride flags, literal death threats to perceived enemies, furries, loli anime, etc on a thing you intend to bring to the workplace to do all your work on…

I for the life of me can’t figure out why anyone would post such an extremely divisive comment.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by theoreticalmal »

bongodongobob wrote: post #68
viraptor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can heat most of them and take off easily. If the IT transfers laptops to other people, they surely have a system for cleaning already.

Or a policy forbidding stickers.

If they’re turning the laptop in due to end-of-employment, what’s IT gonna do?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

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'd suggest political conservatives are more likely to enjoy an undecorated laptop. There are a few Libertarian ones though.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by vineyardmike »

hnfong wrote: post #261
fourside wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have examples? If anything there have been cases of left aligned activist employees being fired from companies like Google not too long ago. Or cases like Basecamp where they asked people to avoid politics at work or leave the company.

Google (sorry) for "James Damore".

Well he wrote a memo saying the women at Google were "neurotic" and that's why women biologically are predisposed to not be software engineers.

If that's conservative ideology, then I guess it is fair to say such ideology might not be appropriate for a workplace. In reality, he just said stupid stuff to be provocative, and tried to post-hoc justify it as vilifying conservatives instead.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by wahnfrieden »

maxlin wrote: post #323
wahnfrieden wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with a pride flag? People commonly display their hetero marriages etc. at workplaces too. If either of those cause division in a workplace, that's a matter for HR or legal to resolve (if it is indeed a disruption). Anyway it's unclear which of these are brought into offices.

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Showing a pride flag at work isn't bringing an issue (just like having a photo of a husband and wife on a desk is not). Someone else having a problem with that and causing a disruption over it, is sowing discord and bringing an issue to work.
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