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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: 0s | 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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Lammy ◴[11 Nov 25 23:04 UTC] No.45894122[source]▶
One 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 ◴[12 Nov 25 05:22 UTC] No.45896644[source]▶
I 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.

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1. Lammy ◴[12 Nov 25 06:36 UTC] No.45897014[source]▶
I 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/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.

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2. ValentinPearce ◴[12 Nov 25 07:55 UTC] No.45897448[source]▶
You could also put a layer of vinyl on the laptop and then put the stickers on that. That way you can peel the whole thing off when you upgrade. I remembered reading about it on dev.to a few years back.

https://dev.to/graystevens/preserving-laptop-stickers-on-mac...

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3. Lammy ◴[12 Nov 25 08:33 UTC] No.45897742[source]▶
I really really like the feel of the textured ABS though :)