What do you think about stickers on laptops?
What do you think about stickers on laptops?
Absolutely necessary. For smaller projects and test setups I repurpose old laptops as controllers. They just control some measurement devices and collect data.
They all get a single sticker on the outside and a cool nickname.
Without a funky sticker nobody would know they are from me. Some have older windows versions to use with older equipment.
They become humanized this way and people treat them with respect and don't throw them away.
Tons of stickers is an easy way to identify the narcissists in the co-working space :)
It’s a nice way for me to derive information about people at conferences and airports.
Don't have anything against them, with one exception: when a company gives employees massive stickers with the company logo.
In case you lose the laptop (and no disk encryption) people might be more tempted to look into the files if they think it is a company laptop.
First thing I do when I get a new laptop is to plaster the lid with stickers. If I see somebody at a coffee shop or conference or whatever with a laptop with a plain lid, I tend to instinctively think of them as kinda boring (until proven otherwise).
No f.....g labels! Neither factory, nor aftermarket stickers!
I even removed the IBM logo from my Thinkpads, at the times I used them.
Where that isn't possible, outside of the lid, like DELL, duct tape, silver or black, or black Edding for other stuff, like HP.
I think it's a cool way to show off some info, like foundation you support or certain non-mainstream tech you use. It's great to use such things as conversation starter.
I had a few on my previous laptop. No regrets!
The more stickers you have, the more Agile you are. Everyone knows that.
I'm 50. I put stickers on my laptop -- originally so I'd know which way to open the lid on my MacBook.
But now, it's to "peacock", too. I appreciate when others do it because I have an idea of who I'm dealing with. I've met some cool people from it and cut to the chase on other things where you work with someone new and have to subtly feel each other's technical ability out.
Perhaps a single "shiboleet"[1] sticker would suffice.
1. https://xkcd.com/806/
I'm not in junior high and a laptop is not a Trapper Keeper. No stickers.
Easy way to know who works in IT and who doesn't at my company.
They are userbars of the notebooks