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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by dole »

nbaugh1 wrote: post #530
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.

"Besides nobody gives a shit about your stupid political opinions or the software stack you use." But sure, tell everyone about your feelings on tattoos and stickers

I've always tried to apply "The Internet gives a fuck about what you don't like" when it comes to commenting, but it's also helpful to remember it's not just the Internet.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by zeekaran »

mr_mitm wrote: post #412
wiether wrote: post #398

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But you can also use them as a reminder of how you felt/who you were when you got them. Even someone who get a very trendy tattoo should keep it: "look how I used to follow every trend and how I evolved because I would never do something like that now". Biologically and philosophically, tattoos are scars.

Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision.

Wait until you hear about intentional scarification

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

SparkBomb wrote: post #601
marcosdumay wrote: post #596

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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.

My friends are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. Strangers usually only offer shallow ridicule and trolling- especially online.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Hamuko »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #570

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)

I feel like the GitHub one needs an inverse GitLab one. Otherwise it might look like you just have a GitLab logo and GitHub text logo separately.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by mkehrt »

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…

I try to avoid stickers from tech products which seem to be the common thing to do. Instead almost all of my stickers are from my friend's art projects.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by zeekaran »

wmanley wrote: post #388
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #368

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

What stickers did you used to have? I'm always fascinated with how people change their mind.

I used to have Pokemon stickers on my laptop.

I still do, but I used to, too.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by zeekaran »

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

The team who handles hardware generally loves seeing the stickers people put on them.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

naIak wrote: post #526
Defletter wrote: post #512

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> keeping women chained to their desks and away from children > glorification of every other sexual special interest except the productive one Yikes, someone should check your harddrives

Those are your arguments, a stupid fucking comic and calling someone a paedophile.

Of course only a pedophile would even think of having intercourse with a woman who has not yet entered menopause.

I should probably also get the lethal injection for being a product of such a sick and depraved congress, because apparently a child is guilty of the crimes of the father.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by mkehrt »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #479
naIak wrote: post #428

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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.

Need them to tell apart my work laptop from my home laptop as they look identical

Back when I worked at Apple no one had stickers on their laptops (gasp, who would dare!). But everyone had identical MacBook Pros, and when we had meetings, they would go in the center of the table and then everyone would have trouble telling them apart. So I got a couple of gold star stickers like you give to children for my laptop.
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