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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

mjhagen wrote: post #325
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.

Because on HN, people are allowed to express things you disagree with.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by iberator »

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.

For 15 years I have seen only one laptop sith sticker. Its unprofessional for most corporations...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by unwind »

Somewhere I have a "RUN GCC" sticker from the Free Software Foundation that I was given by Daniel Stenberg (author of curl) at some meetup here in Stockholm.

That would actually be kind of cool, I always end up not being able to make up my mind about what would be worthy.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by fmajid »

It's moistly about being able to recognize your laptop from others when the company has standardized on as sdinglke model. I have an Epson ColorWorkjs C4000e label printer and design and print my own, but some my 13 year old daughter designed for me and are extra special.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by vineyardmike »

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…

Thanks for the reminder to put a pride flag on my new work computer. Can't for the life of me figure out why it'd be divisive though.

Also, why do you assume these aren't people's personal computers? Many people surely own computers personally, and of course people can express themselves on personal property.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by chickensong »

Fomite wrote: post #301

I've never been able to bring myself to put stickers on my laptop - not since the Titanium PowerBook came out. Everything else in my life? Covered in them. But my laptops are always pristine. This has always made me faintly sad.

You know what to do!

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ValentinPearce »

Lammy wrote: post #316
nucleardog wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody wou…

I haven't tried putting any on my Framework 12 yet, because the ABS has this sort of rough texture that's very soft and pleasant to touch but seems like it wouldn't hold stickers well long-term. I've been putting mine on retro machines instead, like on my 900MHz HITACHI (actually Acer OEM) PⅢ: https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/GWgVHXHaoAIPiB... These days I also flatbed-scan any rare stickers before using…

You could also put a layer of vinyl on the laptop and then put the stickers on that. That way you can peel the whole thing off when you upgrade. I remembered reading about it on dev.to a few years back.

https://dev.to/graystevens/preserving-laptop-stickers-on-mac...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by klez »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #193
klez wrote: post #31

Looks like many people here in the comments don't hang out at hacking events that are not purely tech-focused. In European hacker camps these kinds of stickers are the norm, especially the political ones that, because of the very nature of those camps, lean heavily progressive if not anti-capitalist/anarchist.

I'm from europe, and the political ones are very, very rare... at least not in the tech world (macbooks of HR departments might be different though). Mostly zero stickers, here and there you find some progamming language ones, a tux here and there, kali, anonymous masks, "my other computer is your computer" etc. on security events, i've even seen a phpBB one this year on a relatively new computer, but no trump, lgbt…

> and the political ones are very, very rare... at least not in the tech world

That's what I said: events (especially hacking camps) that are not purely tech-focused. We're just going to different kinds of events :)

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