Laptops with Stickers

My laptop hasn't had stickers since a CTO asked why mine didn't have any stickers like the ones on the laptops of his cool cloud team. Personally I've found laptop stickers bad taste since then.

To me stickers on laptops are as tasteless and kitschy as tattoos. I would never get a tattoo for the same reason I would never put a sticker on my laptop.

Besides nobody gives a shit about your stupid political opinions or the software stack you use.

I think It’s funny to see the political ones, because these stickers are often as incoherent as memorabilia you‘d expect to find in a teenagers room.

And even if they look colorful, they’re as diverse as the distinction between Trotzky and Stalin.

There are the endless hints at porn addiction, wrapped as ideology.

The Anti-Capitalism coming from an 3,000$++ MacBook Pro is also rich, especially if that evil capitalist gave it to him for free, plus an absurd monthly stipend.

There‘s the outspoken expression of peace, love and moral superiority - right next to „fck“ other people, „smash“ individuals with opposing views or downright „kill“ them.

And of course the old chestnut of caring about digital freedom, privacy but then low and behold people have a different opinion, to just „hack“ them anyways.

It’s hard to tell which of these invokes more Schadenfreue, if not its meta that the owners likely think of these stickers as giving away secret hints to the curious about their world views, while in practice you already know it when entering the room.