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Laptops with Stickers

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601 points z303 | 2 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dinkleberg ◴[11 Nov 25 22:25 UTC] No.45893730[source]▶
Wow most of these are quite the contrast to what I used to see back in the day. At least in my circles it was just a collection of the technologies you’ve learned and enjoy. These are more like bumper stickers on the back of car. To each their own I suppose.
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shagie ◴[11 Nov 25 22:42 UTC] No.45893894[source]▶
When I was going to conferences, my laptop stickers were a public display of "these are technologies that I use and you can strike up a conversation with me about them." To an extent, a resume that you can glance at from across the room.

It's a bit of a statement for what you're trying to communicate with that lid - professional experience, political statements, personal "this is neat"...

And part of this is a for me the lid of the laptop is something that I'd need to be able to be comfortable with displaying in front of a CxO without worry about if they may be offended or not (though perl might be offensive to some).

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dylan604 ◴[12 Nov 25 02:54 UTC] No.45895915[source]▶
> comfortable with displaying in front of a CxO without worry

In today's timeline, you'd need to be concerned about what some random TSA agent felt about your stickers and if that might get you pulled aside for additional screening.

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SchemaLoad ◴[12 Nov 25 03:36 UTC] No.45896140[source]▶
You joke, but I had someone tell me they were taken for questioning on entry to the US because their laptop had EFF stickers with some slightly edgy hacker culture phrases on them.
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1. dylan604 ◴[12 Nov 25 03:58 UTC] No.45896242[source]▶
I'm sorry, but what makes you think I was joking? I have seen a co-worker get pulled aside for additional screening because he wore a t-shirt that had the words of the second amendment or some such printed in a way of looking like a pair of pistols. On the same flight, we sat with another individual who got himself arrested, missed his flight, and was eventually released to sit on our flight because he wore a belt adorned with bullet shells cut in half.

I'm not saying either one of them were the deepest of thinkers when choosing the garments for the day, but TSA also isn't employing the deepest of thinkers either, so why poke the hornets' nest

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2. tbrownaw ◴[12 Nov 25 05:13 UTC] No.45896597[source]▶
> On the same flight, we sat with another individual who got himself arrested, missed his flight, and was eventually released to sit on our flight because he wore a belt adorned with bullet shells cut in half.

I've heard of similar things before, and had the sense that this was less screeners being dumb and more legislators not fuzz-testing their work.