@kawa
Minimal and personal. Nice. 😄
Sometimes, yes.
Main one does not travel much and bears no stickers.
I am not sure why.
@Algot
Stickers at your whimsy.
That sums it up pretty well.
@viciousviscosity Not usually. I prefer the clean, minimalist aesthetic of the unadorned device.
@porsupah
Clean, even surface. Does the aesthetic of the laptop factor in heavily when you've considered purchases?
@viciousviscosity Definitely. It's something I'll be looking at for many of my waking hours - I'd much prefer it to be easy on the eyes, and not distract from what I'm actually using it for. ^_^
@porsupah I agree, I'd probably be a bit too distracted by unevenly placed stickers, or any overwhelming pattern or even a lack-thereof. Simple and clean. 👍
@viciousviscosity i do sticker mine (and my work one).
Its fun, its fun to personalize, and its fun to collect new stickers.
@phessler
Is that how you know when you need a new one - no more spaces for stickers? hehe
@viciousviscosity I don't do *that* many stickers, but when the ones on the wristpad rubs off, it generally is.
@viciousviscosity I usually do, to make a boring, standardized machine look more individual, as well as to advertise for whatever message the sticker has on (may it be a political statement or a band I like).
@Aarkon
A bit like the luggage stamps from the days of old - kinda shows where you've been, on a mental level.
@viciousviscosity I dig that analogy.
And if you put stickers of conferences and what not on your device, it becomes even phycial.
@gme
Incognito, less chances for some stranger to surreptitiously gain intel.
@gme Not even with a trench coat and thick, round framed glasses? 🤔
@viciousviscosity I do sticker my laptop. A little bit as a means of protection against fingerprints, and also as a means of expressing my values about #freesoftware and #privacy.
It’s cool to be seen in public places hanging around with all these #stallman stickers.
@mareklach
Practical and personal, might strike up a conversation or cause someone to search just what all those stickers mean. A bit of silent evangelizing.
@viciousviscosity I do not. Nothing against it, I just don't feel the impulse.
@Tak
Good, simple reason 😄
@viciousviscosity I used to have a few on my #laptop, Atomic logo and such, but I got annoyed with them. Too noisy, too messy. I liked the purity of the lid without them better.
For a little while, I had a ghost_things (https://twitter.com/ghost_things) #sticker that I cut so he was peeking out behind the Apple logo.
Then I switched to this baby, but unfortunately it started peeling and getting dirty at one point and I had to remove it. Haven't replaced it yet.
@viciousviscosity Oh, neglected to mention, ghost_things was actually run by an old colleague of mine. He had a stack of stickers 😁
@zigg @viciousviscosity I *loved* those, and made an effort to collect them when apple started pushing out the all-white ones.
sadly, that collection got lost 4711 moves ago.
@phessler @viciousviscosity This one is an Etsy purchase. I do have a few classic Apple rainbow stickers but they're the wrong size to be illuminated by the MBP logo
@zigg
Haha, that suits you quite perfectly.
Neat little bit about ghost_things, and year round spooky celebration is A+ in my book 😃
@viciousviscosity hell yeah, represent all of the cool stuff I'm into
@viciousviscosity yes, and because I'm s grownup I can do what I want to with my shit!
@maloki
Haha, punk as ever! 😆
@viciousviscosity yes. Because every single laptop in my workplace is a ThinkPad and they all look alike unless you sticker yours (easy, looks a bit rough, IT just rolls their eyes) or repaint it (hard, looks super cool, IT gets really really mad at you).
@MightyBigCar
Standing out in a crowd, the individual expression - and less severe glares from IT.
@viciousviscosity i don't, because i never go outside and so nobody would appreciate it. also i don't feel particularly comfortable expressing all the things on a publically visible thing people can ask questions about
@KitRedgrave
Completely understandable. I suppose it's a bit like advertising your interests, and that can be stressful sometimes.
@viciousviscosity especially when some of them are things i'm not out about
@KitRedgrave
Safety and discretion - I completely agree.
@viciousviscosity Alright, Val, time to show us your #laptop 😁
@zigg
I have never put stickers on any of mine.
@viciousviscosity Well then. 😁
@zigg Actually, I'd forgotten when I'd put a white apple sticker on a Dell Netbook that I made a hackintosh hehe. But aside from that, nil.
@viciousviscosity Ah yes, the old Apple logo license clause hehe
@viciousviscosity @zigg first two are work's x250. Last is my x240.
@viciousviscosity @zigg Fun trivia: The laptop with "Legacy IP Only, doesn't support IPv6" was the laptop where I finished support for multiple-routing-tables for IPv6. ;)
@phessler
Is that sticker… oregon trail inspired?
"You have died of IPv6"
Kudos on the trivia behind it hehe.
@viciousviscosity I wasn't active in networking when the sticker first showed up, but I believe it was a riff on "we don't sell buggy whips any more, either".
But I think your explanation is funnier, so I'll use that next time. ;)
@phessler
@viciousviscosity @zigg
Pretty sure I've posted this before, but...
@gcupc @phessler @viciousviscosity @zigg oh damn, I really need that Dead Inside sticker.
@der_Jeff
@phessler @viciousviscosity @zigg
I just wish it were smaller...but that's the smallest size that was available.
@gcupc @phessler @viciousviscosity @zigg yeah, a bit smaller and you could replace the real Intel sticker on the palm rest. 😁
I need to find a good source for stickers. All of mine I got from buying products, etc.
@viciousviscosity
Damn now I have laptop envy!
@zigg
@viciousviscosity No, but only because I am never around cool stickers.
@emsenn So it's a matter of proximity… 🤔
@viciousviscosity Yea - I don't buy much merchandise so the cost of shipping on a single sticker makes it just unfeasible (and then I think about like, carbon cost of shipping my bright sticky paper and even if I had infinite money I don't know if i'd do it.)
@viciousviscosity Yeah. A lot.
1. It's a way to promote cool projects/Free software.
2. It hides the hardware vendor logo. I don't want to be their "advertisment tool".
3. It's fun to collect stickers and customize the laptop
@devnull
Subverting their advertising for your own. 👏
No two laptops ever quite have the same experience, a bit like they're carrying the times they went through on them, a bit venerable.
@viciousviscosity
my stickers make it my laptop
an extension of myself
@catoutofbed
Personalizing the tech, making it your own.
@viciousviscosity I only have two at sign stickers on it. I like it clean looking but the @ is personally important to me. (And yes, one matches this avatar picture.)