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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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post #429

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.”

Actual LOL for that comment. Thank you.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#452

In case you’re wondering, this is 我 (me). https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_4148-1.jpe...

Looks like 武 ("bu", warrior). https://www.japandict.com/kanji/武

Agreed, wu3 in Mandarin Chinese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#455

I 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.

I just want a funny sticker to cover the logo of my laptop's producer.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#457
I chuckled seeing the one with stickers taken off of fresh produce. My SO bought me a whiteboard so that I would stop placing such stickers on random surfaces.

I like to look at stuff personalized like that, but I would never settle on any design for longer, so I don't do it myself.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#458

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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

Because then it's just visual clutter, and in the case of tattoos, unnecessary pain, expense and health risk.

If I'm going to put a sticker on something it's going to read like a diff, what sets me apart from the mainstream culture, not all the different ways I conform to it.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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post #433
post #428

Earlier 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.

Well, nobody cares about you're views about stickers and tattoos, but you still commented. Compared to you though, nobody here called you a retard; maybe that says something about how people are here or how you tend to use inflammatory language when it's not needed.

I care! I dunno if I agree with him about all tattoos (surely some are tasteful even if it's a minority), but stickers are definitely all tasteless and kitschy.
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