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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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There's no problem with publicly engaging in politics. In fact, it's a great thing to do. What is a problem is doing it on an environment where participation is mandatory or required for basic survival.

I think generally people are I'll equipped to engage publicly in politics. Politics is an extremely dirty game and can be extremely divisive.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#602

I've had my eye on this pack of stickers for my next laptop upgrade: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1133836260/cursed-programming-s... (the joke here is that all of the tech has the wrong logo, ie the javascript sticker has a java logo, the vscode sticker has a vim logo, etc)

It's actually kind of concerning how these just look normal at first glance

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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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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> gave it to him for free,

It's neither a gift nor free.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#605

Shameless plug for those who still need more stickers for their laptop: ssh stickr.shop

just ordered because it's via ssh. great work!

same here. newer saw such a fleshed-out ssh thingy. i just HAD to buy it. a bit weird to see this story on the frontpage now, just ordered tons of techy stickers from AliExpress two days ago...

i must say that the shopping experience on stickr.shop is way better than Ali, haha.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#606
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I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops. Startup culture?

I work at a large (>50k employees) company that is in every way the opposite of a start-up. Plenty of people cover their work laptops in stickers. The hardware group that handles replacing old machines has a wall of fame for all the lids with cool stickers.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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post #547

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Removing a sticker is easier than getting rid of a tattoo. Some people on this website even declare that they wear a chastity device on their laptop stickers: https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_9217-2.jpe...

> Some people on this website even declare that they wear a chastity device on their laptop stickers: Where do you see that on this photo?

I made a kinky interpretation and apparently I'm wrong.

The white label with the "Haltungsform" is a standard label used in the German meat industry, showing under what conditions animal was kept before being slaughtered. 1 is the worst, and 5 is the best: https://haltungsform.de/en/

In this one, it says "Käfighaltung" under 2. Which means "caged keeping". So I assumed it's a kinky reference to a chastity cage. Maybe too much of a jump I know but I'm not a native German speaker and all the times I heard about a cage in German, it was in a kinky context.

Now that you asked and I looked at the source, apparently it's part of a working environment themed sticker set: https://www.threads.com/@unterwegselektrisch/post/DD34uR6uJG...

It's embarrassingly wrong but very funny too :)

Re: Laptops with Stickers

#608

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

This is the main reason I've never gotten a tattoo - how I feel about whatever it is will almost certainly change.

Often the laptop is replaced before the feelings change. Each laptop lid becomes a time machine showing who you were at the time.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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post #547

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> Some people on this website even declare that they wear a chastity device on their laptop stickers: Where do you see that on this photo?

I made a kinky interpretation and apparently I'm wrong. The white label with the "Haltungsform" is a standard label used in the German meat industry, showing under what conditions animal was kept before being slaughtered. 1 is the worst, and 5 is the best: https://haltungsform.de/en/ In this one, it says "Käfighaltung" under 2. Which means "caged keeping". So I assumed it's a kinky reference to a chastity cage. Maybe…

Freud would have a field day with you.
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