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Re:The Peril of the Laptop Sticker by userbinator on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:49PM (#17537009)
It's only a personal observation, but I've always associated laptop stickers with the same sort of demographic that likes to plaster their cars with bumper stickers.
Re:The Peril of the Laptop Sticker by geebee on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:55PM (#17537035)
Could be. But there is a much lazier laptop sticker demographic. It is by far the lowest effort way to tell one MacBook from another. The people who do this with stickers they got at a meetup are the same demographic as healthcare researchers who use pens and writing pads with the name of a prescription medication. It is the lowest effort way to jot something down.

These people don’t have bumper stickers because a bumper sticker isn’t a low effort way into o do anything. They do tend to have a permanent layer of dust on their car as well as parking stickers that expired six years ago, though

Re:The Peril of the Laptop Sticker by King-Aaron on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:33AM (#17538796)
It took me a long time to put stickers on my laptop.. But I still would not put a sticker on the outside of my car, unless its a sponsors logo on the track car.

There's also another distinction there to be made, that a bumper sticker is a very low-effort garnish for your car. I wouldn't consider a tuning manufacturers logo on the rear of a race car to be a 'bumper sticker', for instance.

Re:The Peril of the Laptop Sticker by klez on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:07PM (#17537088)
Anyone I know with laptop stickers does not have bumper stickers, so there's that. But that may be because bumper stickers are not a thing round here.
Re:The Peril of the Laptop Sticker by donttrack on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:33PM (#17537210)
I have a "powered by MonogDB" bumper sticker...

... and laptop stickers too.