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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Defletter »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #780
Defletter wrote: post #778

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Why would you assume that someone who specifically mentioned "self-determination, social equity, liberty, and nonaggression" was advocating for "keeping women chained to their desks and away from children" through a lack of parental leave?

If you don't want to keep women chained to their desks and away from children, then what's the problem?

Because of the clear regressive biases evident in your comments: not once in your little diatribe nor the tedious back and forths since then have you mentioned general paid time off, bereavement leave, or even paternity leave. I don't want fathers to be chained to their desk and away from their children either, hence my use of "parental leave", but you seem only concerned about mothers being around their children. Isn't that interesting? That coupled with your "the glorification of every other sexual special interest except the productive one", spreading the bigoted lie that non-straight people are unproductive to society and there's little ambiguity on what you think women's role in society is.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by thepryz »

constantcrying wrote: post #654
thepryz wrote: post #634

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I like to view it as living authentically and seizing every opportunity to add a little color or whimsy to the mundan, but to each their own.

Authenticity is in your heart. Putting stickers onto your laptop, which is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do, makes you just look ridiculous.

Authenticity is behaving in a way that is true to yourself. In this case, putting stickers on a laptop or otherwise decorating it is a form of art and self expression. It’s not complicated or controversial.

I do it because it can be creative and fun. It adds color to an otherwise gray and boring surface and provides a practical way of identifying my laptop from everyone else’s.

When I was in school, we used to cover out textbooks with brown paper bags and then drawn on them. How is this any different?

You seem to have you entire identity tied to the notion of what you think a software developer is and that everyone should conform to that idea. I’d rather have people be creative, embrace fun, and add color and self expression to the world. We could all use more color in our lives.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by wyclif »

shagie wrote: post #154
wyclif wrote: post #145

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That's why even though I like the weird and esoteric stickers you see here, I myself prefer the `unixstickers` style I think you're talking about. Debian, Arch, GNU, Python, bash, Ruby, Git, Vim, fork bomb, Tux, DEFCON, 127.0.0.1, &c. These are great for starting conversations, even in cafes. And you end up meeting some interesting people with shared culture.

It is about advertising one's (possible) shared culture. For me, my laptop is part of my professional culture and thus I try to keep it as crisp and professional in appearance as one's resume since its a bit... difficult to laptop lids in certain cases. For my personal shared culture, that is the sort of thing that can be exposed (or hidden) on a case by case basis. My choice of t-shirt where I can button up or down…

K8s, Helm, Docker, Rancher. You're speaking my language.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Lammy »

nucleardog wrote: post #779
Lammy wrote: post #316

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I haven't tried putting any on my Framework 12 yet, because the ABS has this sort of rough texture that's very soft and pleasant to touch but seems like it wouldn't hold stickers well long-term. I've been putting mine on retro machines instead, like on my 900MHz HITACHI (actually Acer OEM) PⅢ: https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/GWgVHXHaoAIPiB... These days I also flatbed-scan any rare stickers before using…

How are you liking the FW12 so far? I've got the FW16 and have been very happy with it, but the portability isn't great given the size. No regrets given it was and always will spend 90% of its time on a desk. I've been considering the FW12 as something more like a souped up tablet I could toss around the house, do some quick sketching on, etc.

There are things I dislike about it (placement of Airplane Mode key, if not its very existence), but I can still call it my favorite laptop ever. However I was already a big big fan of the 12" WUXGA form factor. Upgraded from a 51nb faux-ThinkPad X210.

I started writing up a longer-form review and hope to publish it in, idk, maybe a few months? Need to do some blog software resuscitation work.

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