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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by some_furry »

SparkBomb wrote: post #721
some_furry wrote: post #714

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yet you still show no receipts. So, until you do, I shall remain skeptical.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

dxdm wrote: post #691
SparkBomb wrote: post #656

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It isn't grumpiness. I am allowed to complain about cringe and slacktivism which is rife in the tech land, which is what laptop stickers are. It is a symptom of a bigger problem.

> It isn't grumpiness. I am allowed to complain I was actually not sure which word to use before: "grumpy" or "complain". I went with the former, because somewhere above, you told somebody off for their innocent little left-pad sticker. This whole thread reads to me like some guy yelling about how lawns used to be greener and had fewer balls on them. But that's okay, I think you are right, and of course you're allowe…

> I went with the former, because somewhere above, you told somebody off for their innocent little left-pad sticker.

I didn't tell anyone off. I honestly don't see what amusing about it. You stick it on the back of your laptop and do what? I used to forget the stickers were even there when I did it and found it very annoying to peel off later.

> And if people like you and me show up and do nothing but complain about them, and I tell them they're stupid for thinking they "are" a "libra", and you tell them how their sticker isn't even funny, then at that point, we have not only not accomplished anything (I wouldn't even feel better myself), and it's entirely fitting to call us grumpy.and maybe even make a little fun of us.

I've long accepted I am an arsehole. The opinion I originally said was pretty mild and as per usual people made it more of a controversy than it originally was.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by SparkBomb »

some_furry wrote: post #731
SparkBomb wrote: post #721

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yet you still show no receipts. So, until you do, I shall remain skeptical.

You are asking for something unreasonable i.e. I go through possibly several months of YouTube history in a comment section argument to "prove" that there people in the Linux community that do weird and cringey things, which is something that they are known for.

This is after you insinuated that I lied less than two comments ago. You put remembering in scare quotes and some other dude told me I was a "clown" because I can't remember username I saw months ago.

So no. I won't be doing that for you or anyone else now.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by kbelder »

SparkBomb wrote: post #575
q3k wrote: post #554

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It's just some stickers on a piece of equipment, why are you making this so complicated?

The problem is that it isn't just stickers on a piece of equipment. A lot of these laptop stickers are either tech stacks (which are usually a form of advertising for a corporation), quasi-political messaging or outward political messaging. I've partially explain this in my OP and other replies under this subject, but I and many other see them as a warning sign of things that are much more worrisome. I am naturally s…

Kind of like seeing a car with a bunch of bumper stickers? Nothing necessarily wrong with it, but you feel like you might want to keep the owner at a certain distance in order to keep your life simple and calm.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by EasyMark »

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.

that's fine, I like putting things on my laptop that I'm enthusiastic about like earth day or zig or whatever. People can like it or not. I suppose of my CEO told me to rip them off I would, otherwise it's harmless. I won't put political stickers on though. I keep religion and politics strictly away from my work life, and walk away if that's the direction a conversation turns. I'm sure there are people at the office who think I'm a die hard conservative, and other that are 100% sure I'm a far left commie, because I simply peace out on political discussions.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by izzylan »

izzydata wrote: post #568

I think the most interesting aspect of this is how divisive something as innocuous as putting stickers on a thing is. What causes people to have a strong opinion on this one way or another? Personally I don't find it hard to put stickers on things because I am worried about being silly, but I find defacing an otherwise clean object difficult. Like getting a brand new car or phone and trying very hard not to get a scr…

Nah, this is just HackerNews. We're Redditors who think we're better than Redditors.

Most people don't care.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by kbelder »

omeletdufromage wrote: post #341
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #319

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>Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. How?

Not the OP, but I have heard something similar from a sec conf before. Gist being if a laptop has stickers like this, then the chances of the owner being an engineer is significantly higher, so pentest teams / malicious actors can better focus their efforts on those individuals, and have a higher chance of gaining access to internal systems than if they targeted random folks in public. Doesn't help as well that argua…

I thought you could just measure the length of their beard.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by tryauuum »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #330
maxlin wrote: post #323

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Showing a pride flag at work isn't bringing an issue (just like having a photo of a husband and wife on a desk is not). Someone else having a problem with that and causing a disruption over it, is sowing discord and bringing an issue to work.

I'm stealing this thread because I wanted to describe my feelings, it's not related to laptops or work

When I lived in Russia I respected the rare people I saw wearing lgbt flags/pins. Because it's really a statement, it's a middle finger to the government. People knew the police can waste their time or even jail them.

Now that I live in a european country and I see more people wearing lgbt stuff, I don't feel such respect. I'm a little puzzled what's the point, you are wearing it in a country where you can hold hands, where government protects people from discrimination... It's not that you shouldn't do it, I just don't understand. Is it like a friend-or-foe id system?

Worst of all (now I'm switching from people to companies) when a company post a pride flag it feels 100% insincere. Because I know companies are motivated by profit so they only do things which don't hurt profit, they don't hold any principles.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by dwd »

raudette wrote: post #572
tectonic wrote: post #233

My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…

Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder. There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...

Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1360/

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ninetyninenine »

viraptor wrote: post #40
ninetyninenine wrote: post #37

Like covering a Lamborghini with cheap bumper stickers.

It's like people want to show what they care about rather than how much they spent on the hardware... There may be a reason.

Another analogy: it’s like painting a gold toilet your favorite color of hot pink. You’re not exactly trying to show off a toilet right?
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