I like to view it as living authentically and seizing every opportunity to add a little color or whimsy to the mundan, but to each their own.
Do you really think something, which is so extremely common among software developers, has the potential to showing your uniqueness.
The hill I will die on is that I despise outward signaling, especially outward signaling of something like "uniqueness".
I don't think my opinion is particularly unique and certainly I do it to appear unique.
>This sounds like a really tough way to live
It is much easier, because I do not have to be worried whether people see me as unique.
>I genuinely wish you the best of luck with your vendetta against checks notes people expressing themselves with stickers on their laptops.
Thank you.
I do it because it can be creative and fun. It adds color to an otherwise gray and boring surface and provides a practical way of identifying my laptop from everyone else’s.
When I was in school, we used to cover out textbooks with brown paper bags and then drawn on them. How is this any different?
You seem to have you entire identity tied to the notion of what you think a software developer is and that everyone should conform to that idea. I’d rather have people be creative, embrace fun, and add color and self expression to the world. We could all use more color in our lives.