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It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered in stickers I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg. I don't daily dr
by ge96 1y ago
It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered in stickers
I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg. I don't daily drive Rust but I like the crab and the Gopher
Kinkpad lol that's good
- layman51 1y agoThat work-related aspect is what I was thinking about too. I’m not sure what it looks like in various workplaces, but I’m always a bit curious around the policies they might have around putting lots of them on employer-owned laptops. I think in tough times when maybe it’s not easy to replace hardware, it can be annoying for an IT person to receive some where they have to peel them off and use Goo Gone on them.
- ge96 1y agoI think of it as optimism/a power move, I'm here for the long run.
- warp 1y agoI think of stickers as partly a theft deterrence mechanism. I expect a thief is more likely to steal a laptop with no stickers, because naively I assume the resale value is higher (no idea if that's actually true). Losing developer productivity for a few days because a new laptop has to be provisioned, shipped and set up is also not cheap, so I feel there is some value to your employer in you making it slightly less likely for your laptop to be stolen at a conference or coffee shop.
- viraptor 1y agoYou can heat most of them and take off easily. If the IT transfers laptops to other people, they surely have a system for cleaning already.
- masfuerte 1y agoA system for cleaning! "You might want to give that a wipe."
- bongodongobob 1y agoOr a policy forbidding stickers.
- theoreticalmal 1y agoIf they’re turning the laptop in due to end-of-employment, what’s IT gonna do?
- YurgenJurgensen 1y agoDock some arbitrary cleaning fee from your final paycheque?
- Lammy 1y agoOne time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.
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- nucleardog 1y agoI basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody would question anything or think it looks unlike any other developer laptop, but that anyone paying attention will instead be met with a fractal of confusion. E.g., one on there is a "STOP, DROP, AND ROLL" fire safety sticker. In Quebecois French. From a small town volunteer fire department. I consider it sort of a personal art project and have fun trying to collect up the most "wait, what?" stickers I can.
- ggsp 1y agoWould love to see them!
- Lammy 1y agoI 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/GWgVHXHaoAIPiBr.jpg https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/GWgVHXHaoAIPiB... These days I also flatbed-scan any rare stickers before using them, to slake that FOMO “what if something better comes along and I regret using it now?” feeling.
- ValentinPearce 1y ago
- culi 1y agoThis is why I've always wanted some sort of removable skin I can put my stickers on and be able to take them with me when I need to depart with my device
- neilv 1y agoI too have wanted this. There are now laptop skin products that they claim are removable and re-attachable.
- ianburrell 1y agoThere are clear cases for that exact use.
- alias_neo 1y agoWouldn't a piece of vinyl, of the type used for wrapping cars, or similar, work for this purpose? I've typically put dbrand skins on my laptops just to protect them from scuffs, I hand my work ones back with the skin on and no one has ever cared, or perhaps even noticed; I choose subtle ones like the hex or Carbon patterns that look like they could just be the actual lid from the manufacturer. I don't sticker up my laptops (as much as I've always wanted to), but if it was done on top of one of these vinyl skins, it should be relatively easy to remove (never tried).
- c0nsumer 1y agoI regularly see pallets of laptops turned in (either due to refreshes or end-of-employment stuff) for a major manufacturing / engineering (car) company. They are just as stickered, but with automotive nerdery. It's pretty neat. And seeing just /how/ many laptops are that way it made me feel a lot less weird about putting stickers on "my" work laptop.
- calvinmorrison 1y agohow many people do you think have both a SAAB SCANIA and VIM logo on their laptop. odds are i am 1 of 1
- w-ll 1y agoI have Alpina stickers on my monitor stand. I treat laptops like 1 an done for travel.
- sheepybloke 1y agoThat's why I always have a clear case on my Macbook I cover with stickers. That way, I can take them with me when I leave, or take them off if I have a big meeting/presentation!
- shagie 1y agoI have this recollection of some framed / shadowboxed clear case covers that were covered in stickers. Either the laptop was replaced and the new model didn't fit... or the cover was filled up and a new one was used. A way to keep the memories of that the stickers represent.
- nine_k 1y agoI always put stickers on work laptops specifically, in order to make mine recognizable among other identically looking laptops in the office. But my stickers were always small, and usually lonely. A purple Emacs logo, a red Debian twirl, an orange lambda, stuff like that. Still was often enough to strike a conversation.
- yourapostasy 1y agoEver since Framework laptops arrived on the scene, I've been waiting for someone to create thicker bezels that piggyback onto the webcams' USB 2.0 interface via a USB 2.0 hub, to integrate a color eInk display facing outwards. Just for the infinite stickers. Bonus points for integrating an outward-facing webcam dedicated to a continous background facial recognition daemon to change the stickers on the fly depending upon who is approaching while the laptop is running.
- ge96 1y agothis one's mine https://i.imgur.com/22gSTuB.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/22gSTuB.jpeg plenty of real estate left
- zeekaran 1y agoThe team who handles hardware generally loves seeing the stickers people put on them.