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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

some_furry wrote: post #714
SparkBomb wrote: post #702

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am mainly talking about YouTube. I mainly lurk on other platforms, but the same people are there.

OK, so check your YouTube watch history? The point we're making in this thread is that we aren't seeing the same things you are , and it's highly likely that whatever comments you're thinking about are not representative of the kinds of opinions people in tech hold.

I am not going back through months worth of YouTube history to satisfy people have insinuated that I have been lying on a claim that isn't even that controversial. I mainly watch car and canal boats videos these days and don't bother with tech stuff outside of security and home lab bits and pieces.

I was trying to find videos palatable to someone that is interested and just wants to run something reliable instead of Windows. I didn't find any.

> The point we're making in this thread is that we aren't seeing the same things you are, and it's highly likely that whatever comments you're thinking about are not representative of the kinds of opinions people in tech hold.

Linux cringe is a thing that been a complaint for a while. That why people do copy-pasta of the GNU\Linux stuff, the "programmer socks" meme, "I run arch BTW" and there is the infamous dropbox post made on here back in 2008.

Most people that don't exist in online world, find all of this very weird and off putting.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by jakeydus »

constantcrying wrote: post #675
jakeydus wrote: post #670

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I'll be honest I think that dying on the hill of "putting stickers on your laptop [...] is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do" makes you look pretty ridiculous.

Doing something, which is so extremely commonplace does not make you unique in any way. Do you really think something, which is so extremely common among software developers, has the potential to showing your uniqueness. The hill I will die on is that I despise outward signaling, especially outward signaling of something like "uniqueness".

And yet here you are, signaling to others your uniqueness by saying how much you hate the way that they signal theirs. It's not that deep, man. This sounds like a really tough way to live and I genuinely wish you the best of luck with your vendetta against *checks notes* people expressing themselves with stickers on their laptops.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ecliptik »

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…

And a Gunship sticker. After looking at some of these I wish there was an optional field people could add so others with overlapping interests could follow a blog/socialmedia/etc.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by neoromantique »

SparkBomb wrote: post #694
neoromantique wrote: post #693

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>I choose to ignore the political issues in my country (the UK) as well. I can't do anything to solve the problems in the country. Which ironically is the main reason why these things continue to go unchecked.

No it isn't. I cannot do anything meaningful about it. I have written in the past to MPs (many times). I was either ignored, or I was told I didn't know what I was talking about even though I actually was working in a related area. If I talk to my friends, they don't care. If I talk to my relatives, they don't care either or understand. If I talk about it on the internet, I am told I am wrong and I should shutup, eve…

if literally everyone around you is saying that you are wrong (Including your friends, even), then maybe it is time for some soul searching.

Even the most bonkers conspiracy theorists out there manage to find an audience.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

neoromantique wrote: post #724
SparkBomb wrote: post #694

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it isn't. I cannot do anything meaningful about it. I have written in the past to MPs (many times). I was either ignored, or I was told I didn't know what I was talking about even though I actually was working in a related area. If I talk to my friends, they don't care. If I talk to my relatives, they don't care either or understand. If I talk about it on the internet, I am told I am wrong and I should shutup, eve…

if literally everyone around you is saying that you are wrong (Including your friends, even), then maybe it is time for some soul searching. Even the most bonkers conspiracy theorists out there manage to find an audience.

> if literally everyone around you is saying that you are wrong (Including your friends, even), then maybe it is time for some soul searching.

No I said they don't listen to what I say or are likely to understand it. I am normally talking about technical things and how it interfaces with law e.g. OSA, encryption, right to repair etc.

Many people in my family are laymen and work manual jobs their only use of technology is Whatsapp, Facebook and Xbox Live. My brother is a welder, my father is a joiner. My best friend loads purfume onto a truck and cannot do basic algebra and skipped school at 14, my other two good friends while more educated are completely non technical. I normally get a link to amazon as a screenshot in whatsapp as they don't know how to copy and past from the address bar.

What usually happens is that I am proven right like about a year or two later and it is never mentioned again because I don't want to berate my family and friends. I've learned over time not to bother discussing these subjects with them because it is a waste of time. One of my friends got quite upset once when I was talking about how bitmap graphics worked.

Thanks though for taking the worst possible interpretation of what I said and not answering my question I asked and doing pretty much what I am complaining about. I really appreciate that :-S.

I want you to answer my original question. If people don't listen to you (MPs, and other people in power) and you can back up what you are saying with good evidence. What are you supposed to do?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #720
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #673

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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.

you are responding to arguments i have not made. would you care to engage with my criticism of your views or do you want to continue making things up?

What criticism, calling them "regressive troglodyte opinions" without any substantiation? You're not trying to have an argument, you're just trying to start a flame war.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #726
GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #720

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you are responding to arguments i have not made. would you care to engage with my criticism of your views or do you want to continue making things up?

What criticism, calling them "regressive troglodyte opinions" without any substantiation? You're not trying to have an argument, you're just trying to start a flame war.

ok, let me "hn-speak" what's already a clear position that you understand that i hold:

i think your views on women's roles are ridiculous, to the point of deserving hyperbolic comparison. your position is misogynistic, bigoted and repulsive to the ideas of self-determination, social equity, liberty, and nonaggression... summarized perhaps irreverently but not inaccurately by the phrasing "regressive troglodyte."

but you knew what i was saying.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by themadturk »

xg15 wrote: post #392

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?

My company is definitely not a startup, but my laptop has stickers from a corporate event from last year...cute little robots. No one complains.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ant6n »

IAmBroom wrote: post #599
Fnoord wrote: post #552

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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://s…

Why? Because your aesthetic taste is not universal.

Well, you cant argue about taste.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by kbelder »

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…

Not everybody copying a fanciful trend is, themselves, a fanciful independent free thinker.
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