Laptops with Stickers

It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one.

I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists. They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same. This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the artists as well, they all dressed carefully and differently, within the bounds of their style and were just as easily distinguished.

Definitely a lot of cybersecurity stickers, but that aside, I see many, many different opinions, positions, and preferences represented in those stickers.

There's a laptop with multiple Amazon stickers, a laptop with Google Cloud stickers, and another laptop with a "There is no cloud, only other people's computers" sticker, and various self-hosters. There are people with local stickers from many different countries. There are people who care about repairability, people who care about reproducibility, people who have nostalgia for specific technologies, people who would love less of specific technologies, Windows fans, Apple fans, Linux fans, Intel fans, IPv6 fans, heavy metal fans, Pokemon fans, Simpsons fans, television fans, Vim users, tabletop gamers, cycling fans, shoe fans, coffee fans, tea fans, anti-AI people, pro-AI people, anti-blockchain people, pro-blockchain people, people who like to layer stickers, people who like to carefully arrange stickers.

Among the politics alone, there are many many opinions expressed, and I'd bet the owners of those laptops could have vigorous political arguments about the right way to do things.

You might find that a lack of right wing stickers has to do do with the fact that most educated people today, such as hackers, who also historically deal with otherness and thus form protective communities, have zero interest in supporting fascist, hateful ideals nor their institutions.

It is positively ridiculous to ridicule a group of people for being "samey" while also lamenting that they do not support policies which historically aim to keep things the same and assimilate/homogenize those who do not fit into perceived societal norms.

> They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one.

If one of the laptops had a libertarian flag added, suddenly it would become "creative"? All these photos⁰¹²³⁴ are aesthetically distinct. Sure, you can see trends in the website but that's always a thing, specially considering nobody there is designing stickers.

I also find it curious that you conflate social signaling with lack of (true) creativity. If all you ate was bacon, would you sneer at the foodies for making homemade pesto and not unleashing their free will by adding strawberry jam to it?

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>one of the laptops had a libertarian flag added

That's the wildcard card option, you never know what you'll get.

Fair point. I didn't mean to imply people's politics means they are creative or not.

But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creatively, write creatively, draw creatively or make music.

If you said to someone who is a comedian or a writer that you were 'creative too' because of your laptop stickers. Well. C'mon.

The politics shown is interestingly similar. No doubt many and probably most lean left. But not all. I've been worked with many people who code and a significant number are conservative. But I've never seen anyone with a right leaning laptop sticker. Tattoos you see exhibit more variety than these laptop stickers.

I should have added that I have stickers on my laptop. But that is orthogonal to whether I'm creative or not.

(I misunderstood you then, sorry!)

Well, the subtitle is "a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world". Meaning that the sticker themselves are creative, not necessarily the collage, which it also can be art by itself (I wouldn't say it fits here)

>But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creatively, write creatively, draw creatively or make music.

I think a certain selection and positioning can be creative.

>If you said to someone who is a comedian or a writer that you were 'creative too' because of your laptop stickers. Well. C'mon.

Depends, is the comedian Jerry Seinfeld?

I'm kidding (kinda). I personally understand creativity as something very much lower stakes, but that might be my ESL showing.

If anything all the transgender/pride and left-wing political cases just make me notice the more "original" ones more. It's like Where's Waldo. I still find stickers tacky though.

This is whataboutism. The Sovient Union does not represent all left-wing thought. Politics are more complicated than "left" and "right", and thus all manner of ideologies exist on the left. You could argue that many far-left people and organizations display extremist tendencies, but that is true of the far-right as well, and is not the topic of discussion.

> Are you familiar with Libertarianism? Conservatism is not the only right-wing ideology.

I am obviously familiar with libertarianism. You're implying that it is a right-wing ideology, which is incorrect. The umbrella of libertarianism contains both left and right wing political philosophies. You can be libertarian and anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian. You can also be libertarian and think you don't support fascism, even though it supports you.

In most of Europe, libertarianism manifests as a left-wing ideology. The idea that it is fundamentally a right-wing ideology is a distinctly American perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism