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    [โ€“] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

    Btw, what is it always with the stickers?

    [โ€“] rockhandle@lemm.ee 91 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    When youre using your laptop on the go, it has to be communicated without words that you use arch btw

    [โ€“] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Why use lot words when logo do trick?

    [โ€“] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You're in a meeting with 16 people with identical corporate laptops. Easy way to see whose is whose if they're not open.

    [โ€“] Godnroc@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

    Pfft, that's what the asset tags are for. Clearly my laptop is the one with the number 2760754 on a... sticker... son of a bitch!

    [โ€“] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I've never been in a corporate environment where stickers on laptops that weren't branded for the company itself was considered acceptable or professional.

    [โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago

    I sticker my laptops.

    I view it as theft deterrent. It stands out so it's easier to see in someone's hands, and makes an expensive laptop looks kind of shitty.

    [โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

    I have. It's not all what it's cracked up to be.

    [โ€“] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, god forbid anyone have a little fun in a corporate environment. Gotta stay in uniform.

    I put a rainbow peel off sticker next to my camera just so I had something nice to look at during the endless Zoom meetings. No one but I could see it. Still got a bollocksing because some boomer passed too close behind my work station once in four years.

    [โ€“] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Extensively. Nobody has stickers on their laptops. Maybe that's some "fresh out of college" shit.

    [โ€“] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    Maybe. Maybe it's a "We can't afford to alienate expensive engineers over stickers" thing, or a "We care more about the quality of work than sticks on laptops" thing.

    Must be a fun place you work at. Do you wear a suit to work and work in cubicles?

    [โ€“] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I don't talk about the specific details of my employment on the internet with strangers. Especially with those who are fishing for a fight in which I have little interest.

    [โ€“] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Okay, have fun a work tomorrow! Or don't, as that seems to be your preference. :-)

    [โ€“] rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    "You must hate your job because you think putting stickers on laptops is tacky!"

    Touch grass.

    [โ€“] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

    Whoa, that's not very professional or acceptable :-)

    [โ€“] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It is advertising for money-less projects.

    [โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I have pro foss and pro union stickers on one of mine.

    [โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

    The one and only question I have: are they easy to peel off? And there are probably some that lose their look and shape over time. Is there a popular place to buy them?

    [โ€“] balancedchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I recently happily purchased some metal Debian stickers for my work laptops. If you know, then you know. And if you want to know, I'm more than happy to explain.

    The Arch metal sticker for my home gaming rig? That was for me.

    [โ€“] dan@upvote.au 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Does any profit from the Debian stickers actually go towards the Debian project, or is it just someone making money off of someone else's project?

    [โ€“] quicksand@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

    That don't exist anymore

    [โ€“] Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

    I guess it's feelings of ownership/pride/community.

    [โ€“] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What is always with the thigh highs?

    [โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] balancedchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

    This guy programs.

    [โ€“] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 12 points 11 months ago

    Programming is easier in comfort

    [โ€“] knightly@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago

    Quick and easy personalization of an otherwise generic product.