I've just covered mine with furry trash stickers.
Laptops with Stickers
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#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In the same breath/sentence as “death threats”? You think that’s remotely the same?
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#443Here's a good talk that gives some advice on how to make good stickers yourself:
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57194-from_c3stoc_with_love_...
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#444Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. Some cyber companies explicitly prohibit stickers on company laptops.
>Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. How?
Well, the _corporate_ stickers are a major giveaway, of course; if you have 15 AWS-related stickers it is highly likely that you work at Amazon, say, and it may not necessarily be wise to make it clear that your laptop is an Amazon corporate laptop, in public.
Beyond that, you could _maybe_ use it to identify a person's interests for social engineering purposes, but that feels a lot more tenuous.
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#445See here for some archives:
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#446I used to put stickers on my desktop PC and laptop when I was in my early 20s. Then I realised my laptop was kinda free advertising for whatever companies product I had stuck on the back.
Now it seems have come very "corporate cringe", similar to the 16 pieces of flair at Chotchkie's. It also looks a bit childish IMO.
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#447My 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.
They won't give a shit about your political opinions as long as it's one of those in the linked gallery of corporate-friendly pre-approved ones.
Anything right of center and suddenly people start caring very much.
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#448My 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…
The problem is that a lot of that has been ruined by corporate cringe and "weird funny stuff" is no longer weird and funny, especially when you have a bunch of influencers trying to either monetise it, sanitise it and/or attach their personal brand to it.
e.g. One of the biggest people that does Debian content, does a bunch of absolute cringe behaviour associated with them where I almost want to die of second hand embarrassment.
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#449I 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.
I have one on my laptop that says "Fuck Your Algorithm." It's like a fine wine that gets more potent by the week, but it's about as political as my stickers get. The rest are just cool art I enjoy, usually from artists I meet at street fairs and whatnot, since it's an easy way to throw them a few supportive bucks without breaking my own wallet.
Saying they don't age well is pretty generalizing, given the variety of ways one can express themselves with stickers that aren't necessarily topical or political.
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#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They won't give a shit about your political opinions as long as it's one of those in the linked gallery of corporate-friendly pre-approved ones. Anything right of center and suddenly people start caring very much.
Of course, that's another thing. The site is full of "down with the system" types which are, for some reason, oblivious to the irony of their values being aligned with the corporate values of businesses that have a valuation of trillions.