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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by JoshTriplett »

sien wrote: post #24

It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one. I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists. They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same. This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the artists as well, they all dressed…

Definitely a lot of cybersecurity stickers, but that aside, I see many, many different opinions, positions, and preferences represented in those stickers.

There's a laptop with multiple Amazon stickers, a laptop with Google Cloud stickers, and another laptop with a "There is no cloud, only other people's computers" sticker, and various self-hosters. There are people with local stickers from many different countries. There are people who care about repairability, people who care about reproducibility, people who have nostalgia for specific technologies, people who would love less of specific technologies, Windows fans, Apple fans, Linux fans, Intel fans, IPv6 fans, heavy metal fans, Pokemon fans, Simpsons fans, television fans, Vim users, tabletop gamers, cycling fans, shoe fans, coffee fans, tea fans, anti-AI people, pro-AI people, anti-blockchain people, pro-blockchain people, people who like to layer stickers, people who like to carefully arrange stickers.

Among the politics alone, there are many many opinions expressed, and I'd bet the owners of those laptops could have vigorous political arguments about the right way to do things.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by [deleted] »

reaperducer wrote: post #36

Where do people buy laptop stickers these days? My wife got a new computer a few months and couldn't find anything cute and tasteful. Everything was brands and anger. The places she used to use are gone, and Amazon proved useless.

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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by garciansmith »

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.

In general I agree, left-leaning ones are way more common. Maybe you are correct regarding the reasons. But I've definitely seen conservative ones too, with libertarian ones being more common among those (e.g., saw a number of "Who is John Galt?" stickers some years ago).

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by JoshTriplett »

nntwozz wrote: post #28

Ha, what a throwback! I remember this one with the Intel SSD sticker: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-320-ssd-300-gb/imag... https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_6571.JPEG "The Intel SSD 320 is the much anticipated follow-up to the Intel X25-M, easily the most popular consumer SSD to date." https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-ssd-320-review-30... Time flies, such a nice upgrade back in th…

I think I still have a ThinkPad around somewhere with that SSD sticker on it. Upgrading from a spinning drive to the X25-M is still to this day the most effective upgrade I've ever had in a system, more effective than any 2-3 generations of laptop upgrades combined.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SchemaLoad »

crazygringo wrote: post #59
SchemaLoad wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got stickers on my laptops. None of them are political, but I've got various indie fashion brands, music related, furry stickers, etc. If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine. I can go work anywhere and have enough savings that it would be no inconvenience to me. I wouldn't want to work with someone who couldn't handle some trivial self expression on the back of a laptop. So…

> If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine. That can be a healthy attitude outside of work. People love personality. But at work, that's not a healthy attitude. You're there to work together, not to be uncompromising in expressing yourself. Your stickers are probably fine, but I can also imagine plenty of musical artists that would certainly be offensive (and rightly so) to some p…

Sure there is some content that is obviously not appropriate, but I'm not seeing it in the OP link. Meanwhile the comments here are filled with a thinly veiled anger over seeing rainbow flag stickers. These are the people I'd be quite happy to self filter themselves out in the workplace. Though I've never met someone like this in the office. Or at least they keep their thoughts to themselves offline.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by edm0nd »

reaperducer wrote: post #36

Where do people buy laptop stickers these days? My wife got a new computer a few months and couldn't find anything cute and tasteful. Everything was brands and anger. The places she used to use are gone, and Amazon proved useless.

Etsy

just search for like "hacker stickers" or "cybersecurity stickers" or whatever you are looking for

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by bongodongobob »

viraptor wrote: post #23
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

You can heat most of them and take off easily. If the IT transfers laptops to other people, they surely have a system for cleaning already.

Or a policy forbidding stickers.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by netule »

mc32 wrote: post #20
olirex99 wrote: post #11

Unfortunately, my company asked me to remove the stickers, as they don’t reflect the company…

You can put them on your car, bike or rucksack

I started putting them on the covers of my notebooks instead. Gives me a brand new canvas to besmirch every few months.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by rchaud »

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.

Wasn't long ago that opposition to fascism was the conservative position. Why is a sticker expressing the same considered "progressive"?
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