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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rsynnott »

viraptor wrote: post #33
joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

I've never seen a conservative sticker on a laptop before. Then again, stickers, tags, etc. are more of an anti establishment thing. Those things don't mesh well with conservative views.

As they mentioned, though, right-wing bumper stickers absolutely are a thing in some places.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by timdiggerm »

ahartmetz wrote: post #421
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…

Right, which tells us that what was fun about it was feeling cool for doing something unusual.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rsynnott »

viraptor wrote: post #33
joshdavham wrote: post #17

This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?

I've never seen a conservative sticker on a laptop before. Then again, stickers, tags, etc. are more of an anti establishment thing. Those things don't mesh well with conservative views.

I've occasionally seen right-libertarian ones (I think historically this has been the most common form of right-wing-ism in hacker-y spaces).

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by woodpanel »

naIak wrote: post #428
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.

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rsynnott »

joshdavham wrote: post #196
blueflow wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its signalling. Instead of stickers on their laptop, conservatives have crosses (the thing jesus got nailed on) on their neck and cars.

That's an interesting point, but I've never really seen the cross as a conservative symbol. I probably know about as many progressive christians as I do conservative ones (mind you I'm not in the US).

The US also has progressive Christians, but they're usually less... performative about the Christianity than the right wing ones are.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by timdiggerm »

cobertos wrote: post #406
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

Defletter wrote: post #468
naIak wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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