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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ebarila »

Defletter wrote: post #470

> 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 wak…

its cringe because its not an original expression, its overdone and heavily political and obnouxious.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Fnoord »

Defletter wrote: post #470

> 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 wak…

But why so many stickers? Why so many tattoos? Why not pick one you very much like and agree with? Less noise. More signal. Less is more.

I don't like many of the ones mentioned on this website but here are some minimalist examples [1] [2] [3] [4] and an exception I do like a bit because of the custom shape [5]. [1] is more like a skin.

[1] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/20250221_00333...

[2] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/laptop_cover.j...

[3] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_1259.jpg

[4] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_5753.JPG

[5] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/54917193947_1f...

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rsynnott »

woodpanel wrote: post #494
naIak wrote: 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.

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> There are the endless hints at porn addiction, wrapped as ideology.

... Eh? You presumably have _extremely_ weird tastes in porn. Like, this sounds more like projection on your part than a real thing, tbh.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by q3k »

SparkBomb wrote: post #550
q3k wrote: post #541

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It also looks a bit childish IMO. God forbid people have a bit of fun in their lives.

If someone's idea "fun" is putting a sticker on your laptop, then they really need to get out of the house more often.

It's just some stickers on a piece of equipment, why are you making this so complicated?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by johnwalkr »

ctm92 wrote: post #545

It's all fun until you want to sell the machine and the stickers discolored the case. Some stickers adhesive seem to react with the coating on MacBooks and permanently discolor them. Just be aware of that :)

The whole MacBook lid fades from UV over time, and underneath any stickers will be darker.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by _fat_santa »

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.

Personally I keep one Linux sticker on my laptop, less about expression and more a conversation starter. It's something that 99% of people won't notice but for the 1% that notices it's a nice conversation starter when everyone is bored (ie waiting at the airport)

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Ginguin »

Barbing wrote: post #527
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #458

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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.

>what sets me apart Interesting. I’m happy with a fun niche, myself. (But generally happier without stickers on expensive things.) Tattoos, though—hard to imagine being THAT confident in anything ever.

My first tattoos were each done years apart. I printed a version out, put it in my wallet, and saw it every time I made a purchase. If I still loved it just as much a year later, I booked an appointment.

Later tattoos are essentially private works of art, put together collaboratively with an artist. These are for ME, and no one at work will ever see any of them (or any of my other tattoos).

Each tattoo has some significance for me, but I won't judge others who just like a thing and get a thing. Tattoos are as varied as the reasons people have for getting them. Mine aren't edgy, but they also aren't visible to strangers.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by smikhanov »

SparkBomb wrote: post #550
q3k wrote: post #541

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It also looks a bit childish IMO. God forbid people have a bit of fun in their lives.

If someone's idea "fun" is putting a sticker on your laptop, then they really need to get out of the house more often.

Don’t be a square

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by nucleardog »

Tade0 wrote: post #344
nucleardog wrote: post #288

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I basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody wou…

Framework is the only laptop regarding which I've had someone ask "what brand is this?". There's genuine interest (well, at least until they hear about the price) and I guess people intuitively understand that laptops don't really have to be replaced every now and then, it's just that mainstream offerings are built this way. The other day I wrote a lengthy essay about all the pros and cons of the device from my persp…

On the topic of stickers--bought an iPad for an elderly relative and it came with some Apple logo stickers. I snagged them, figured it was a fair price to charge.

One currently sits on my Framework over the Framework logo. The edge of the Framework gear sticks out in the bite in the apple and the sticker is thin enough the black framework logo shows clearly through the white of the apple.

On first glance, it looks like "trying to make a cheap laptop look expensive". On second it's looks like doing a really bad job of it. Anyone who actually knows the brand at all or asked about it will know the truth... it's making an expensive laptop look like a different expensive laptop.

So I guess it's not just the absurdity of the sticker, but how you use 'em.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by johnwalkr »

Lammy wrote: post #60
ge96 wrote: post #6

It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered in stickers I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg. I don't daily drive Rust but I like the crab and the Gopher Kinkpad lol that's good

One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.

On a previous HN (I think) discussion about stickers, one person scanned the lid of their old laptop, printed the whole thing as a sticker, applied it to their new laptop and then continued to put more stickers on top of that.
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