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by tectonic 216 days ago
My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…
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That's how git commits work.

Current laptop stickers: current state.

Photo of the previous laptop: reference to previous commit.

I love this... I haven't had the courage to "spend" my sticker collection on my current laptop, as they obviously don't last forever. A solution could be to photograph the old cover, and print it as a full-size sticker as a starting point for the next laptop!
That's how my laptop home directory used to look. A subdirectory with a copy of the prior incarnation's home directory ad infinitum...
I am totally going to do this now. I always hate when I have to leave my old laptop stickers behind and this is such a neat way to keep them around.
Keep it going! I did that to my Facebook pfp (they also have stickers) - after a few years it became this abstract, glitchy work of art. I don’t use fb anymore but still remember that fondly
I didn't go that far, but I did take the back cover from my old (stickered) laptop and hang it on the wall.
Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder.

There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...

Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1360/

stickerception
Stickers all the way down.