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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Re: Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

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Post by freehunter »

iguy wrote: post #218
aflag wrote: post #216

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There's at least two other options. Once, a friend of mine came from a conference, he was really excited about his stickers and gave me one. I thought it'd make him happy if I sticked it to my laptop, and so I did. Some time ago a work colleague went on this rant about how stickers are dumb. Only to find a sticker on his laptop when he got back from lunch. He thought it was funny and it became a running joke for a wh…

Those are great. One more boring one: you're tired of picking up the wrong laptop, when they all look the same!

That’s exactly why I started putting stickers on mine. I had a personal 2015 Macbook Pro, a 2013 MBP for work, and my wife has a Macbook Air. They all look exactly the same. So I put a sticker from my company on the company laptop and a sticker from a local brewery on my personal laptop and the confusion went away immediately.

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Post by bdcravens »

meerita wrote: post #89

Call me weirdo but I never jumped on the sticker wagon. I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using their services (paying, yes) than paying and also putting stickers on my laptop. Is just because fanatism or feeling proud of using something? I'm not trying to be jerk, but I never understood that movement.

I have 3 on mine: our company sticker, and 2 satirical ones related to what we do (we audit Fedex and UPS accounts; I have a "FedUp" and an "Oops" stylized like those logos)

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Post by anoncake »

sq_ wrote: post #174
throw03172019 wrote: post #106

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New MacBook Pros no longer glow!

To be entirely honest, I miss the glow. I thought it was a cool little feature, even if it didn't do anything much other than look pretty.

Except wasting electricity (probably not much, but a minute or so of battery life sounds more useful than a glowing apple)

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Post by libertine »

loriverkutya wrote: post #300
libertine wrote: post #258

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Oh I've seen this plenty of times when it comes to the possible idea of one being influenced by a brand to the point of carrying their logo/promoting them for free. Like those who do it are shills, easily influenced, sheeps, etc - and the ones who don't are completely immune to any branding/advertising/marketing, because of reasons (usually there's a sense of superiority bound to it). Funny enough, this is just an il…

I have a Totoro sticker on my notebook. Does that mean I'm a sitting Totoro?

To me it means you liked My Neighbor Totoro, you probably also like most of the Hayao Miyazaki work, and probably you like other anime movies.

Other people they might see you as a weeb.

When in reality maybe someone you like stickered it there, and you just know that the name of the thing is Totoro. Only you know, yet it's still a signal to people who interpret that symbol.

Now depending on your laptop brand you could be a major asshole or a normal human being! (This one is a joke, kind of)

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Post by shalmanese »

coldtea wrote: post #197
want2know wrote: post #180

It's sad to see that in this thread most people jump in conclusions because they only assume there is only one reason why people put stickers on laptops. Without giving it much thought you place people in a 'category' that only exists in your mind. There are a million reasons why people put stickers on laptops. And also a million why people don't. I guess it's best to keep an open mind and don't think you know why pe…

> There are a million reasons why people put stickers on laptops. And also a million why people don't. Well, let's not get carried away. There are a handful of reasons at best: 1) they feel the laptop is drab/empty and want to decorate it 2) they are fans of an artist/band and want to promote it 3) they want to broadcast the world the company they work for and/or their choice of frameworks and tools 4) they want to c…

n) My company hands out stickers for certain accomplishments (being part of a launch, hitting a certain milestone, attending internal events etc.) and seeing the pastiche of stickers on someone's laptop gives you a rough sense of their history with the company and complex signals of social status.

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Post by cruano »

esmi wrote: post #168
numlock86 wrote: post #164

In my company I introduced stickers on working machines. We have a lot of developers with different skillsets spread over the entire campus. There are many departments sharing similar technology stacks and needed skills. This helps people to get together if they have questions or ideas they want to verify or share with others not in their department for example. Got a problem with a particular thing in Erlang, Redis,…

Reminds me of Merit Badges. :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_badge_(Boy_Scouts_of_A...

Only those are earned

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Post by cruano »

Shorel wrote: post #155
craigmcnamara wrote: post #111

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I have googly eyes on mine. Not only can I definitely find my computer in a sea of identical MacBooks, people across from me at meetings seem to enjoy them.

Damn this seems fun.

Yeah I know what I'm doing this weekend... I want eyes on everything

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Post by habosa »

When it was time for me to get a new laptop I put my old macbook in the office scanner, got a high-dpi scan of the whole thing.

Then I ordered a custom full-size sticker for my new macbook that has all the stickers of my old macbook. Then I kept stickering on top. Final result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VQ75mPshvzs6ubf87

I am very happy with it, even though it doesn't look half as nice as what this person did. The combination of old and new stickers on the laptop is fun, and the whole thing took me 30 minutes to do.

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