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Laptops with Stickers

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601 points z303 | 3 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.863s | source
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ge96 ◴[11 Nov 25 22:19 UTC] No.45893659[source]▶
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

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1. layman51 ◴[11 Nov 25 22:28 UTC] No.45893772[source]▶
That 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.
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2. ge96 ◴[11 Nov 25 22:36 UTC] No.45893840[source]▶
I think of it as optimism/a power move, I'm here for the long run.
3. warp ◴[12 Nov 25 08:47 UTC] No.45897835[source]▶
I 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.