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601 points z303 | 2 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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grafelic ◴[12 Nov 25 10:27 UTC] No.45898512[source]▶
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.
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ahartmetz ◴[12 Nov 25 11:00 UTC] No.45898694[source]▶
It has become less fun since it has become common. My most recent laptop doesn't have stickers but I might apply some from my sizable collection before it becomes secondary laptop in 1-2 years.

You can still "hipster it" and only use actually cool stickers. Community open source projects, hackerspaces, good conferences, EFF and similar organizations, weird funny stuff.

Good:

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/1762135251053-...

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_9222-1.jpe...

"Employee of the month":

https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_20200717_2...

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SparkBomb ◴[12 Nov 25 12:00 UTC] No.45899108[source]▶
The problem is that a lot of that has been ruined by corporate cringe and "weird funny stuff" is no longer weird and funny, especially when you have a bunch of influencers trying to either monetise it, sanitise it and/or attach their personal brand to it.

e.g. One of the biggest people that does Debian content, does a bunch of absolute cringe behaviour associated with them where I almost want to die of second hand embarrassment.

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ahartmetz ◴[12 Nov 25 12:55 UTC] No.45899560[source]▶
From my POV (old?, never on social mass media), you live in a strange world if some influencer has any... influence on your opinion of Debian. I see little to no monetization of "the good stuff".
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SparkBomb ◴[12 Nov 25 13:05 UTC] No.45899648[source]▶
They don't have any influence about what I think of Debian. What happens though is people outside will associate their (unbearably cringe in this case) behaviour with you, whether you like it or not.
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klez ◴[12 Nov 25 15:39 UTC] No.45901489[source]▶
I'm a long-time Debian user and I have no idea who you're talking about. How much weight do they actually carry? Who is this influencer you're talking about?
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SparkBomb ◴[12 Nov 25 16:01 UTC] No.45901781[source]▶
Go on YouTube, Mastodon or any sort of social media that is bit techy orientated and you will find it easily.
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stoltzmann ◴[12 Nov 25 17:56 UTC] No.45903350[source]▶
Stop being a clown and just write down the fucking name if you want to complain that badly.
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1. jakeydus ◴[12 Nov 25 18:23 UTC] No.45903793[source]▶
I legitimately do not understand this kind of behavior. A: "I have an excellent example that clearly illustrates my point." B: "Great, what is it?" A: "Uhm, if you don't already know, then you're stupid. You can easily find it anywhere."

We're gatekeeping evidence that supports our claims now?

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2. SparkBomb ◴[12 Nov 25 19:24 UTC] No.45904920[source]▶
No. I just can't remember who these accounts are because I pretty much insta-block the them from my feed.

The reason I am complaining about this is I was trying to find some good info to send to a friend.

I ended up making my own no-BS videos to send to my friends instead and putting them up on YouTube.