• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Wearing a tech company backpack in public, esoecially in the rougher parts of town, is like wearing a sign that says “scrawny nerd probably with expensive electronics, come rob me.”

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    20 hours ago

    Lol, they asked for the bag back the last handful of places I left.

    Didn’t care though, cuz they were falling apart (the bags too).

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, some places are super petty. Hell, the last CEO I had bitched at my manager because I was stoked he offered to get me some equipment that my last previous gig strung me along on.

        Man, I’m so glad to be away from that narcissistic asshole

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    22 hours ago

    My current employer’s complimentary backpacks arent nearly as nice as my previous employers. Until my current employer steps up their game, my previous employer is getting a meager amount of advertising out of me

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    1 day ago

    It doesn’t work for backpacks that might have the company name embroidered on, but for cheaper print-on-demand items like hats and water bottles, acetone will cause the logo to dissolve or shift.

    That says, I have personally removed embroidered logos from clothes before, when the product itself is excellent but aesthetically ruined by a logo. It’s very finnicky work with a seam ripper, and has gained me a lot of nice thrift store finds.

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      23 hours ago

      i like doing this to pretty much everything i own that can have the logo removed.

      hate the coarse plastic they use now, where the acetone will sort of “polish” it and it will look ugly as fuck.

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        20 hours ago

        Yep, sometimes acetone will do that. But other times, another solvent like gasoline might do the trick. Or maybe a heat gun.

        I see it as an engineering challenge, how to best remove intrusive logos from stuff. IMO, all this is part-and-parcel to the second part of: reduce, reuse, recycle. Also, sometimes certain logos can be clipped in very creative ways haha

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      that’s why i donate mine each time i get one.

      also because i feel that i’m literally branding myself as a target for any thieves out there. lol