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Call me weirdo but I never jumped on the sticker wagon. I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using thei
by meerita 7y ago
Call me weirdo but I never jumped on the sticker wagon. I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using their services (paying, yes) than paying and also putting stickers on my laptop. Is just because fanatism or feeling proud of using something? I'm not trying to be jerk, but I never understood that movement.
- mattschmulen 7y agoHow else do you identify your mbp going through TSA. Call me laptop roulette paranoid.
- thatswrong0 7y agoPrecheck saves that hassle.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt's the one next to my shoes and my wallet.
- raverbashing 7y agoI think that's how pretty much everybody does it Though every MacBook has some small details that can be picked up even if "identical"
- deathanatos 7y agoI usually put my carry on (a rolling bag) and personal item (backpack) on the bookends of other bins/belongings on the belt, s.t. all the bins are between two large, distinctly-mine items. It also makes pointing out the items which are mine to a TSA agent significantly easier.
- pvarangot 7y agoMine is the one with no stickers
- meerita 7y agoI live in Europe, you need to put the laptop into a plastic box, with all the cables, etc. It's easy to identify it. I put also personal belongings
- kstrauser 7y agoAll of my stickers are for companies I've been directly involved with (eg past employers), FOSS projects (Python/PyCon, PostgreSQL), charities I'm active with (EFF, FSF, etc.), or services that I personally use a lot (Mastodon, Twitter). They're kind of a way of saying "I like these things".
- ahartmetz 7y agoMany to most typical laptop stickers don't advertise companies. Also, if you stick one over the glowing apple, you disable some rather obnoxious advertising.
- throw03172019 7y agoNew MacBook Pros no longer glow!
- sq_ 7y agoTo be entirely honest, I miss the glow. I thought it was a cool little feature, even if it didn't do anything much other than look pretty.
- ahartmetz 7y agoNow consider someone who isn't a particular fan of Apple sitting opposite of you in a dark room. It is shouting "APPLE! APPLE! APPLE!"
- tarsinge 7y agoI’m not a particular fan of Nike and I can’t avoid people with Nike t-shirts, so what?
- politelemon 7y agoThe Nike logo is not shining into your eyeballs.
- feu 7y agoI can't imagine being so fragile as to be triggered by seeing the logo of a company.
- danieldk 7y agoIt had the downside that if some bright light was coming from the other direction, the Apple logo would shine through your display. Example picture: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ruc03/my_apple_logo_shines_through_my_computer_screen/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ruc03/m...
- orhmeh09 7y agoMost of my stickers aren’t really related to IT or a business or anything, save for some nonprofits. It helps me differentiate my work laptop from personal (similar looking thinkpads) and to enliven an otherwise dull but functional design in a way that is pleasing to me by virtue of it reflecting my interests and tastes, if these are ones that I feel comfortable sharing. What would be a good reason, in your opinion?
- rightos 7y agoI just want everything colored as to hide the maximum amount of crud that tends to build up. Usually black.
- eertami 7y ago>Most of my stickers aren’t really related to IT or a business or anything This I think people have less of a problem with, as your stickers add a bit of personality. The guys with GitHub, redis and a chrome logo however...
- mwfunk 7y agoUsually when I see people put stickers on laptops it's just for stuff they like or things they think looks cool. Maybe sometimes that ends up being a company they like for whatever reason. It's the same reasoning someone would use picking out t-shirts. The goal is to not give corporations free advertising.
- Justsignedup 7y agoTHANK YOU! I saw the same thing. If I am going to be decorated like a NASCAR driver, I would much rather paid for that.
- teekert 7y agoExcept you won't. And the EFF, Linus Torvalds and OpenBSD will probably never. Yet, I feel like I could give them some free advertising.
- delinka 7y agoI use stick figures, shadow shapes, etc. This differentiates my laptop from all the others in a crowd of them, and does it with my taste. I’m with you on advertising - not interested.
- khendron 7y agoThe only reason I put a sticker on my laptop is to identify it out of all the other identical laptops at work. I generally don't get a tech related sticker either. Instead I buy a sticker of an animal or something. Of my current laptops, one has an owl, one has a cat, and one has a flying fish.
- craigmcnamara 7y agoI have googly eyes on mine. Not only can I definitely find my computer in a sea of identical MacBooks, people across from me at meetings seem to enjoy them.
- Shorel 7y agoDamn this seems fun.
- cruano 7y agoYeah I know what I'm doing this weekend... I want eyes on everything
- bonniemuffin 7y agoMy laptop googly eyes tend to get dented when things press against my laptop lid, and then sort of disintegrate. I need extra-thin googly eyes.
- citeguised 7y agoYou don‘t seem to be the only one https://devlids.com/lids/stevenjudd https://devlids.com/lids/stevenjudd
- craigmcnamara 7y agoThere are dozens of us!
- gumby 7y agorandom stickers (that don't have to be corporate) make it easier to tell whose machine you're about to grab. That could mean yours, or your rival's; I leave that part of the decision to you.
- tsumnia 7y agoFunny enough, for me, it depends on the "thing". Laptop or car? No dice; but water bottle and home PC, stickers on them. I don't go out of my way to sticker them up, its mostly a collection of stickers I think look "cool" or hold sentimental value. For example, I have the skydiving bumper sticker on my water bottle cause, while it is rather bland looking, marks the skydiving trip I took two years ago. The Hot Ones sticker on my tower is because I really like hot sauces. Overall, I like to do it because I've done it since my high school folders. I used to tape magazine clippings all over it and even made a small amount of money doing it for others at my school.
- metasyn 7y agoHave you considered putting art on your machine?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoStickers are purely a way to identify your laptop in a sea of otherwise identical MacBook pros.
- MiscIdeaMaker99 7y agoStickers are purely an extension of one's ego.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoNo, this is what an naive outsider might think looking from the outside, thinking the “hipster” Mac users are just feeding ego, missing completely that they are only doing it so they don’t pick up someone else’s computer at work.
- doyoulikeworms 7y agoI didn't interpret the GP post to mean ego in a toxic way. I certainly put stickers on my laptop to express myself by sharing a bit of my interests and identity.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI put stickers on my Dell, too.
- meerita 7y agoI never hand picked any computer in a job. I carry mine everywhere. I never leave my computer alone out of my section and, more over, if i leave it in my desk I don't need to identify it differently. I can say by looking at my keyboard I can detect if it is mine by looking the most used keys, :)
- bauerd 7y agoWhat about funny stickers then, not branded ones? No fun allowed?
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- azernik 7y agoI just care about some visual distinctiveness - useful for both identification and aesthetics. Never put them on for a company I don't work for, though, just little bits of art from assorted Etsy shops.
- vlunkr 7y agoThis behavior isn’t isolated to stickers. It’s no different than wearing a Star Wars shirt. It does seem silly though when the sticker is for a company that like, sends emails for you or something
- flukus 7y ago> I don't see the point of advertising companies for free What if I'm covering up the free advertising built into the machine? I like how my triforce sticker looks a lot more than the dell logo it replaced.
- Marsymars 7y ago> What if I'm covering up the free advertising built into the machine? This is what I do. My current MacBook has a single unbranded sticker of a hop (from Double Mountain Brewery) to cover up the Apple Logo.
- disordinary 7y agoI've put stickers on laptops before but it's always been OpenSource projects which I use and only to cover scuff marks as the laptops age. Commercial products to me seem similar to wearing brand names.
- Shorel 7y agoI don't use stickers either but with this technique, I could give it a try for a few months. Totally unrelated: I feel the same about tattoos.
- mrexroad 7y agoI keep an EFF bumper sticker on my laptop for that very reason — advertising for non-profits or causes. I’ve had a surprising (or not?) number of people ask “what’s this EFF thing?”, and in turn had many good conversations with folks about privacy, encryption, Etc. I know of at least one person who dug deeper after our chat and ended up donating to the EFF.
- teekert 7y agoBash nor Linux nor BSD nor "anti-NSA" are companies...
- megla_ 7y agoPutting anti-NSA stickers on your laptop is the same as tweeting Rape is bad, which I've seen quite a lot recently. What's the point? Everyone already agrees with you. You're just patting yourself on the back for thinking correctly, like the 99% of others.
- teekert 7y agoWell, the stickers are not for you then. But like saying: "Snowden is a hero", there is a certain feeling of bravery, in the face of the biggest bully the world ever knew, don't you think?
- grumdan 7y ago> Everyone already agrees with you. That's really not my experience. A significant portion of people I meet, including technical people, articulate some form of "I have nothing to hide, so I don't care" when the topic comes up.
- cyberjunkie 7y agoMy two stickers cover a scratch and a tampered badge on a top-end, used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Stylish and serves the purpose!
- Vaskivo 7y ago> I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. I feel the same way. I also stopped using T-shirts with stuff related to companies, technology and any kind of pop culture for the same reason. And, aesthetically I find the clean laptop more elegant.
- tlear 7y agoBut there is so much more you can put there.. mine has: Kids sticker my daughters put there, cartoon like power rangers(some new one but same concept) Trail running club that I ran some races with Some star wars sticker Friends startup company Postgress meetup(cool design) Few coworking spaces I been to Muai Thai stadium in Bangkok Couple conference stickers(swift and ml) Running sandals that I like Couple ski resort stickers that I bought for my kids and they put it on my laptop Climbing festival Canadian Alpine club Only one that is company advertisement for free is Mammut outdoor brand. I really like their branding for whatever reason, so I have few of their things
- mcv 7y agoI've also never put stickers on my macbook. And not to keep it pristine either; it's collected plenty of gunk, and I use my macbooks up completely (my 2011 MBP is currently on its deathbed), so resale value is no issue. For some reason I just don't see the value in covering it with stickers. Although I did put two stickers on the laptop I'm using at a client's office. Maybe they'll help draw some attention to our team and product, and inform people which department I'm working for.
- meerita 7y agoI keep all my macs. I still have my 2003 iBook. But that one had 2 stickers I remember that it took me a good afternoon to remove completely the crap of it.
- hknd 7y agoI'm working with >100 engineers in my team and >1000 engineers in my building, and nearly everyone has a mbp. We usually just drop our macbooks somewhere if we attend an event, or a meeting, or go for lunch in our building. Not having stickers (or any other unique feature) makes it very difficult to find your computer.
- yoz-y 7y agoStickers definitely make it easier to find one's computer.
- turbinerneiter 7y agoOn my old machine, I had three mission patches from space missions I was (a small) part of. On my current machine I have a Rick, the Micropython logo and a sticker from my Moped gang. Stickers of companies are not the only ones existing.
- navigatesol 7y ago>I don't see the point of advertising companies for free. My support would be more in terms of using their services (paying, yes) than paying and also putting stickers on my laptop. So you won't advertise for free, but you'll pay the company to advertise for them?
- bdcravens 7y agoI have 3 on mine: our company sticker, and 2 satirical ones related to what we do (we audit Fedex and UPS accounts; I have a "FedUp" and an "Oops" stylized like those logos)
- rtdp 7y agoI had forgotten my laptop while going through security at the Detroit airport. So when loudspeaker announcements happened, I went back to collect the laptop. The security guy asked "Why type of laptop is it?" intending to check if it's really mine, I replied: "One with lots of stickers". "There you go" he said handing me my laptop that was inside a protective cover.