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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by _notreallyme_ »

xg15 wrote: 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 necessarily startup. You can see some laptops with defcon stickers, it used to be very common for infosec auditors to have work laptops full of stickers not that long ago. Although, it is bad practice for read team audits, and some large companies don't like this kind of shenanigans for internal audits, so that may explain why it is less frequent nowadays

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by wiether »

xg15 wrote: 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?

When everybody is issued with a dull grey laptop, putting a few stickers on it is a nice way to know which one is yours when there's ten laptops on a meeting table and it can help users feels more responsible of their laptop.

The nastiest/dirtiest laptops I saw were always sticker less.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by YurgenJurgensen »

binary132 wrote: post #133

It seems to me that about 10-15 years ago, laptop stickers were a little more like patches on a punk jacket; that is, they were meant to show something about the cons or competitions you have participated in. A few such places would give out stickers. At some point, people saw the cool-looking stickered-up laptops and thought they would also look cool and put fun stickers on their laptops to show that they also can g…

Nowadays, when I see someone with two dozen stickers on their laptop or pins on their lanyard, I see someone with two dozen hot button issues on which they’ll try to ruin your life over a differing opinion.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by cobertos »

rmoriz wrote: post #391
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #368

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.

Theres better ways to choose stickers. Make them yourself and it's extremely unlikely you'll ever be at odds with that artist ;). Pretty art or ubiquitous fun phrases generally also don't really go bad, unless it's so tied to a specific artist that it represents them too.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by grafelic »

My laptop hasn't had stickers since a CTO asked why mine didn't have any stickers like the ones on the laptops of his cool cloud team. Personally I've found laptop stickers bad taste since then.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by cobertos »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #389
magarnicle wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do they _need_ to be edgy? They can just be fun, happy, or a representation/proxy of the person behind the computer

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

xg15 wrote: 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 necessarily startup culture, my current assignment (energy company) has a number of teams that all want to do some kind of personal identity and self-promo, so they have stickers made on occasion.

Unfortunately a lot of them are AI generated, which is weird given we have a number of designers in the teams too.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

cozzyd wrote: post #356
alex_duf wrote: post #346

I used to put stickers on my work laptop. Then one day I upgraded my laptop, which meant handing over my old one with stickers. Which meant scrubbing it (there's no reason I'll let whoever receives it to scrub it for me) Which was an absolute pain. I don't put stickers on my laptops anymore.

Some choice stickers (McMurdo Station and South Pole Station stickers) have inhabited 3 of my laptops already.

Are those heat insulating by chance?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by YurgenJurgensen »

enraged_camel wrote: post #359

My hot take: laptops with stickers are simply mini-billboards and I resent that they are a thing. The owner doesn't even make money from it! I'm fine with self-expression (like with tattoos, which can be super interesting and creative) but am broadly against people shoving their likes/dislikes on everyone's face. I don't have any laptop stickers or bumper stickers and don't wear branded clothing.

I think that this kind of thing reduces the individual to a list of group affiliations. It’s the opposite of self-expression really.
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