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Laptops with Stickers

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SparkBomb ◴[] No.45899053[source]
I used to put stickers on my desktop PC and laptop when I was in my early 20s. Then I realised my laptop was kinda free advertising for whatever companies product I had stuck on the back.

Now it seems have come very "corporate cringe", similar to the 16 pieces of flair at Chotchkie's. It also looks a bit childish IMO.

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Vinnl ◴[] No.45899205[source]
I just want a funny sticker to cover the logo of my laptop's producer.
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SparkBomb ◴[] No.45899280[source]
Are they really that funny though? While I appreciate that it is subjective, they are often only vaguely funny.

More often or not a lot of the supposed humour is a thin veneer over some sort of political or quasi-political messaging. You can even see in the screenshots that most of it is either political, product placement or their tech stack.

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Vinnl ◴[] No.45899940[source]
As a JS developer, I once had a sticker in the npm font, but it said "left-pad". I liked that one.

Just a pretty one is fine too though. I had a cool one at some point that was the logo of a small local meetup with friendly organisers, and the logo was essentially a drawing of a local landmark. It fit perfectly over the OEM logo. I miss that one.

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SparkBomb ◴[] No.45900119[source]
> As a JS developer, I once had a sticker in the npm font, but it said "left-pad". I liked that one.

I wouldn't even put this in the "somewhat amusing" category. This is really in the 16 pieces of allowed flair category as far as I am concerned.

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1. Vinnl ◴[] No.45905866[source]
Ah right, I'm making my boss happy with that one I suppose?

Well, glad I also had the local landmark icon on it then, to prove that I'm also a free thinker.

Then again, the laptop after that had an "I work with someone from Tulsa, Oklahoma" sticker, which I suppose I merely stuck on there to get the approval of my former coworker from Tulsa who made that sticker, probably hoping I would get a promotion out of it down the road.

We really are doomed as an industry.

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2. SparkBomb ◴[] No.45907175[source]
You don't need my permission to do what you want. I am sorry I sound dismissive, but a lot of the so called humour is a bit passe IMO.

I didn't mean to sound rude to you.