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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ahartmetz »

grafelic wrote: post #405

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.

It has become less fun since it has become common. My most recent laptop doesn't have stickers but I might apply some from my sizable collection before it becomes secondary laptop in 1-2 years.

You can still "hipster it" and only use actually cool stickers. Community open source projects, hackerspaces, good conferences, EFF and similar organizations, weird funny stuff.

Good:

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/1762135251053-...

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_9222-1.jpe...

"Employee of the month":

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_20200717_2...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by heavensteeth »

marcosscriven wrote: post #378
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’m struggling to understand how you’ve put pride flags and death threats in the same category of “extremely divisive”. I see others have asked the same question, but you don’t seem to have the courage to respond. What’s divisive about a pride flag?

I struggle to believe you don't understand what they mean. There is many a homophobe in the world. GP isn't saying homophobia is good, simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people. Maybe they deserve to be upset, but that doesn't change that it may become your problem.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by smikhanov »

Some laptops clearly belong to the cheerful juniors celebrating their coding practices (git! npm! vim! Python!), and some are very political; once you filter those out, what remains are interesting examples of people expressing themselves.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by HeinzStuckeIt »

komali2 wrote: post #308
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some people like naziism. Those people were wrong. In your individual opinion. In mine, too, and hopefully everyone else’s here. But the OP was clearly talking about what views are presented as “morally right” by normative social forces, and those clearly differ across time and place, often as political power waxes and wanes.

No but that's my point, the nazis had to march entire classes of people to death camps at gun point to be considered "normative," and even then there was a resistance movement not only in every occupied country but also Germany itself. The reality is a minority of people were willing to use extraordinary violence and propaganda to present their viewpoint as "normal," but I don't agree that that made it "normal" even…

By the time the "death camps" started, Nazism’s takeover of Germany’s society was complete; peer pressure was now doing the work that initially thugs had to do. Yes, there was a resistance because there will always be people who disagree with whomever is in power, but those people where acting against the norm. Only with Germany losing the war were they rehabilitated in the eyes of Germany society at large, and initially with some grudging resistance here and there.

This is why posting about how “Nazism is objectively immoral, m’kay?" misses the point and can be counterproductive. The whole reason that fascism is a continual spectre is that, it turns out, by appealing to people’s base instincts and cracking heads, a malevolent political form can completely sidestep morality and institute the society it wants to see.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rmoriz »

cobertos wrote: post #404
rmoriz wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

True. Make a unique design, not a mashup of 25 JS frameworks and a corporate-sponsored programming language.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by naIak »

grafelic wrote: post #405

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.

To me stickers on laptops are as tasteless and kitschy as tattoos. I would never get a tattoo for the same reason I would never put a sticker on my laptop.

Besides nobody gives a shit about your stupid political opinions or the software stack you use.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by teddyh »

grafelic wrote: post #405

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.

“We need to talk about your flair.”

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

imiric wrote: post #313
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a lot of flagged comments at the bottom

Ah, yes, downvoted and flagged comments is how I know someone is wrong and not worth reading.

I was simply pointing out that most people cannot even see the content of those messages so they might have just missed them.

I'm not sure why you interpreted my comment in the way that you did.

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