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Re: Laptops with Stickers

#391

I got rid of all mine after getting disillusioned with every one of the causes they represented.

Stickers are like statues of people, or streets named after people. They don't age well. Nothing and nobody is absolutely right, all the time or in hindsight.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#392
I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops.

Startup culture?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#394

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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…

Well, if we want to be pedantic, and of course we do, I'd say the stickers are a form of self-expression and the comments are a form of expression, some of which seemed cynical and/or biased due to most of those laptop lids featuring a high proportion of innocuous logos, video games, ironic meme culture stuff, cute animals, some flags, and if I really look for it, some resembling vaguely anti-authoritarian themes

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#396
post #392

I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops. Startup culture?

My laptop at Amazon was also covered in stickers, although I shied away from the more politically charged ones.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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This is the main reason I've never gotten a tattoo - how I feel about whatever it is will almost certainly change.

There’s also the problem with both most tattoos and all the stickers in the article that there’s nothing left that’s counter-cultural about them, which defeats the entire purpose of doing something edgy as a statement.

I'm seeing a lot of cute animals, memes, video game stuff, what's with the fixation on being edgy. My gf has a bunch of animal tattoos, doesn't need to be complicated.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#398

I got rid of all mine after getting disillusioned with every one of the causes they represented.

This is the main reason I've never gotten a tattoo - how I feel about whatever it is will almost certainly change.

But you can also use them as a reminder of how you felt/who you were when you got them.

Even someone who get a very trendy tattoo should keep it: "look how I used to follow every trend and how I evolved because I would never do something like that now".

Biologically and philosophically, tattoos are scars.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#399
post #392

I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops. Startup culture?

Not really, I work at a big and older company and they will even have stickers around the office(we only need to go to the office 4 or 5 times per year, but can go whenever we please) to put in the laptops.
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