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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by pragma_x »

I used to not be on "team sticker".

My wife, however, loves to customize her stuff.

Fast-forward a few years of that and her laptop breaks down. We drop it off at a local repair place, only to have the business itself fold up with everyone's gear inside it. Former staff then went to great lengths to find customers and return equipment. We were able to recover the machine from a box of co-mingled broken laptops, mostly because it was visually customized. Not everyone else was so lucky.

Point being: the experience was just like having unique looking luggage, and just as useful and important to do. You don't know when you'll need this, but when you do, you'll be thankful.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by timeinput »

Hamuko wrote: post #615
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.

I think of GitHub more with the octo cat logo (couldn't find a good link for it, and didn't want to hug anyone too hard, so no link), or their current logo: https://github.githubassets.com/assets/GitHub-Mark-ea2971cee... and not so much the stylized words GitHub.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Kye »

benchly wrote: post #436
FinnKuhn wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like info you would already have by taking a look at LinkedIn or am I missing something?

You're missing something, but that's sorta the point. The idea of what a full-stack developer or back-end engineer or hacker (or whatever term we want to bandy about) looks like is largely based on stereotyping and a bit of myth. You can't tell what someone does for a living just by looking at them all of the time, but you can some of the time, so it's easy to play on that by dressing the part because we humans can b…

The classic clipboard and high-vis hack.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

stoltzmann wrote: post #664
SparkBomb wrote: post #597

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go on YouTube, Mastodon or any sort of social media that is bit techy orientated and you will find it easily.

Stop being a clown and just write down the fucking name if you want to complain that badly.

I gave an example of something I remembered from last month. I can't remember the exact name of the account, and I normally block them afterwards or mute them from the feed.

The reason I am complaining about this is I was trying to find some good info to send to a friend. I ended up making my own videos to send to them as I had 3 or 4 different people asking me to show them how to do things on Debian. So I ended up recording how to do it myself.

I will also complain about it in the manner I wish. Since you have no called me a clown, I will now complain about it more vaguely.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Defletter »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #673
GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #646

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sometimes i forget that other critics of capital can also have regressive troglodyte opinions on gender roles and sexuality. thanks for the reminder!

What if furthering the human species through the use of stable two-parent households happens to be my kink? You wouldn't kink shame, would you? It will always be funny to me how little it takes for the mask of limitless tolerance to slip and reveal what you people think of those of us who dare even dream of deviating from the prevailing social norms.

This would do rounds on TruthSocial or X, The Everything App. Might I suggest moving this conversation over there?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by 12_throw_away »

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…

TBH I think putting stickers on your laptop is a practical imperative, as it makes it much less likely that you'll accidentally grab someone else's.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by juliend2 »

zcw100 wrote: post #627
SparkBomb wrote: post #533

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It has nothing to do with that. A good portion of these stickers are to do with things that are political or quasi political. What tends to happen is that a lot if times people have been burned in someway for supporting an idea or a cause. This is often because people have been fooled by charlatan, or it was later revealed that things were more complicated or different than they were led to believe. Cringe and why pe…

I think it's more a very lame flex. Macbooks were expensive and if you were walking around the office with a Macbook it was because you were important enough to convince management to buy you one instead of some crappy Dell. Eventually enough people get Macbooks that you need another way to stand out so you slap a bunch of cheap stickers all over it to show everyone, "See, you coddle your trophies. I beat mine up bec…

You so perfectly verbalized the semiotics behind those stickers.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

jasaldivara wrote: post #668
SparkBomb wrote: post #652

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There are loads of tech influencers in the Linux space on Youtube and loads of techie platforms. There is various levels of cringe in the Linux space, some of it is honestly embarrassing. If you don't see it already, you are going to tell me it isn't a problem. There isn't one person doing this. There are plenty.

If you won't say who is the person you're talking about, can you at least tell an example of that cringe behavior?

It isn't I won't say. It is I can't remember because I pretty much insta-block it when I see it.

Some notable examples of stuff I've seen in Linux / Tech land the last few months:

- One person was dressed in a furry lizard suit, while compiling gentoo.

- Another person made a song about Debian packages. I thought it was a gag at first.

- Another woman was dressed in a school girl outfit, cat ears and a push up bra (not sure she was Linux stuff, but it was tech).

I am not expecting everyone to be some greybeard in his office but some of it is a bit much and sometimes they have really good info in the video, but the initial impression is so jarring that it will put people off (I had people tell me this).

I actually made my own YouTube channel because I was trying to find decent information to send to someone who was a new Linux user without this BS. I ended up making videos myself detailing how to setup a bunch of stuff up.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

jakeydus wrote: post #672
stoltzmann wrote: post #664

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Stop being a clown and just write down the fucking name if you want to complain that badly.

I legitimately do not understand this kind of behavior. A: "I have an excellent example that clearly illustrates my point." B: "Great, what is it?" A: "Uhm, if you don't already know, then you're stupid. You can easily find it anywhere." We're gatekeeping evidence that supports our claims now?

No. I just can't remember who these accounts are because I pretty much insta-block the them from my feed.

The reason I am complaining about this is I was trying to find some good info to send to a friend.

I ended up making my own no-BS videos to send to my friends instead and putting them up on YouTube.

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