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by numlock86 1642 days ago
Being in a work environment where quite a lot of people have stickers on their laptop lids I am pretty confident you'd have to actively point at it and be like "See? That's the joke." for someone to even notice it because people just don't pay that much attention to it. It's too subtile, but I get that's the point.
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Second day of my first ever internship, I dented the aluminium lid of my brand new, very expensive, work Macbook.

So I had an idea - I slapped a band-aid on the dent to hide it. Caught the attention of way too many people. Everytime they inquired, I'd tell them it's because I hurt the laptop by denting it. Resulted in amused and confused faces alike.

The Band-Aid Streisand effect
This would be a fun game. Take some heavier stickered entries from DevLids.com, Photoshop some of those misbrands-stickers, and let people guess the "fake" ones.
But there are already plenty of these there. It full of these, I'd say. I saw on the first page:

  -Github styled as Pornhub (multiple times)
  -HDL styled as DHL
 -Github styled as Obama
 -"Write the Docs" styled as a Metal Band
 -Linux styled as "Intel Inside"
 -javascript styled as supreme
 -"sys admin" styled as AC/DC
 -slayer syled as lorde
 -"sempai" styled as supreme
 -npm styled as IBM
 -Arur syled as AC/DC
 -untitled goose game styled as antifa
 -Javascript styled as playstation 1
 -css styled as sega
 -starwars as starbucks
 - "bookface" as facebook
And more. I didn't recognise a lot of stuff.
I had a sticker on my work laptop at my old company with the company logo edited to say "ecstasy" and no-one ever commented on it
Yeah I think the JavaScript one is the only one ham-fisted enough to get spotted without explaining the joke.