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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

Vinnl wrote: post #455
SparkBomb wrote: post #446

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.

Are they really that funny though? While I appreciate that it is subjective, they are often only vaguely funny.

More often or not a lot of the supposed humour is a thin veneer over some sort of political or quasi-political messaging. You can even see in the screenshots that most of it is either political, product placement or their tech stack.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Theodores »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #368

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

I would like to know which stickers they were. Maybe I would recreate a few for irony. There are plenty of candidates for irony, from Enron to crypto. There are also those companies that it is hard to be excited about - I mean a Microsoft sticker would mark you out as a rebel.

Oddly, the only stickers I have on my computers are the Intel ones that come ready applied. Younger me would have gone in for stickers but younger me had pen and paper with no laptop. That said, back then it was school bags that got decorated, albeit with fabric patches and badges rather than stickers. Here was how you showed allegiance to music bands and football teams. I didn't do that though since I was not one of the cool kids.

One sticker set I would like consists of morally dubious companies such as defence corporations and failed companies from things such as crypto, mixed up with USAID psyops such as 'Free Tibet'. However I can't be bothered to put in the work. That is why stickers that are ready made succeed, it is minimal effort.

Younger me was surprised at how much stickers cost. When I was working in a bicycle shop we had Oakley sunglasses for sale, and the product was cool. In period people would buy Oakley stickers from us to put them in the back of their car. I expected these to be freebie promotional items but no, they cost a fortune and could not be just given away.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by mr_mitm »

fwn wrote: post #432
mr_mitm wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision.

> Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision. Interesting. Why? Isn't it a common and longstanding cultural practice, even among indigenous peoples? Intuitively, I'd say body modification is based on the desire to shape one's own body, something we usually embrace in fitness culture and medicine, for example. I don't have any tattoos or scars, but I can't think of anything that would make them question…

Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean it's good. We also shouldn't confuse self-mutilation with healthy activities like exercising simply because both "shape one's own body".

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by bargainbin »

Such a bunch of negative folks in here. I personally stickerbomb every company laptop I get knowing full well some poor guy in IT is going to have to scrape it all off.

I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered.

His face when I handed it back to him, priceless.

Side note: What is that massive yellow CYBER sticker that seems to be on 80% of them? Feel like I’ve missed some kind of political movement.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Foxboron »

bargainbin wrote: post #464

Such a bunch of negative folks in here. I personally stickerbomb every company laptop I get knowing full well some poor guy in IT is going to have to scrape it all off. I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered. His face when I handed it back to him, priceless. Side note: What is that massive yellow CYBER sticker that seems to be on…

> Side note: What is that massive yellow CYBER sticker that seems to be on 80% of them? Feel like I’ve missed some kind of political movement.

I'm a little bit unsure about the origins of the sticker. But in the european hacker community the "CYBER" sticker is used for a bunch of things. Package tape, stickers and security lines.

There is one webshop selling them: https://cyber.equipment/

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by RestartKernel »

bargainbin wrote: post #464

Such a bunch of negative folks in here. I personally stickerbomb every company laptop I get knowing full well some poor guy in IT is going to have to scrape it all off. I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered. His face when I handed it back to him, priceless. Side note: What is that massive yellow CYBER sticker that seems to be on…

> I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered.

I just have to believe that you know better than I do what was appropriate at your workplace.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Defletter »

naIak wrote: post #450
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by fwn »

mr_mitm wrote: post #463
fwn wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision. Interesting. Why? Isn't it a common and longstanding cultural practice, even among indigenous peoples? Intuitively, I'd say body modification is based on the desire to shape one's own body, something we usually embrace in fitness culture and medicine, for example. I don't have any tattoos or scars, but I can't think of anything that would make them question…

Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean it's good. We also shouldn't confuse self-mutilation with healthy activities like exercising simply because both "shape one's own body".

> Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean it's good.

This is true, although it is a good start, right? If a cultural practice has survived for many generations, this alone already indicates that the practice might be compatible with human society, morals, sustainability, etc.

> We also shouldn't confuse self-mutilation with healthy activities like exercising simply because both "shape one's own body".

True! We should indeed not confuse self-mutilation with healthy activities just because they share some similarities.

But would you classify scars or tattoos motivated by aesthetics as self-mutilation? What about piercings, such as holes for earrings or laser hair removal?

I believe that is an interesting and unusual position. Do you have an argument in favor of your (so far implicit) take?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Defletter »

> Your real middle class refuses to show any but the most bland books and magazines on its coffee tables: otherwise, expressions of opinion, awkward questions, or even ideas might result. -Paul Fussell, Class

The greyification of our lives, the loss of whimsy and kitsch and being too afraid to be a little cringe, I get the sense that a lot of people associate "growing up" as the loss of any and all expression: we wake up in our grey beds in our millennial grey house, drive to work in our grey car to work in our grey cubical, etc, etc. If you want a gauche laptop covered in stickers, do it, embrace the gauche. Everyone sneering at you is more miserable than you.

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