Programmer Humor

This is why I've always loved unmarked clothes since I was in middle school. When I was a kid I was very cynical about being branded

There's a cyberpunk novel called Feed in which some teenager got a trendy Nike tattoo that would force him to say "Nike" in every sentence. I think that's the next step in our deliberate effort to pay for the privilege of branding ourselves.

I just realized how odd it would be to see people walking around in brandless clothes. As odd as when someone removes all the badges from their car.

The advertising has been so prevalent for so long that it has been normalized. Fascinating.

Sure, but good luck finding a decent quality running shoe without conspicuous branding at a local shop though.

Can't wear it, if they don't make it.

That's why I like mine: Very subtle branding, though if I could I'd prefer unbranded. But I only bought them because I liked the color scheme and they were comfortable.

Fun fact: The colors of them are:
Ties: Electric Blue
Main material: Thunderstorm blue
Soles: Fog grey

I just think the colors have funny but cool names :)

Edit: (Please put the hate for Linus Tech Tips (LTT) to the side for now)
I actually like the way LTT brands some of it's merchandise.
Some is subtle/stealth, some is only on tags or subtly integrated in the graphic design.
I generally dislike their prominent branded items.

Bonus point if you bring stuff mainly from bankrupt companies

Yes, with the backpacks.
Didn’t you read the screenshot?

Yeah I’ll take the free backpack over the actual “Yellowstone brand” to be part of the gang.

I ripped the "met life" shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.

Trashing was maybe unnecessary? Could've donated it to those in need.

However I do support the sentiment. Fuck Microsoft. Hopefully you'll be able to find employment that is more fulfilling and less genocidal. (This is not a stab at you, I get working for an evil company and wanting to get away from it).

Anti Commercial-AI license

It’s probably also because of tax. Here in the Netherlands, you cannot provide any clothes without a logo of a certain size. Otherwise it would be seen as ‘wages’. True to some extent. This is why companies here print their logos on stuff (even for newborn rompers).

Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide.

I've been avoiding Microsoft like the plague because of other reasons for a long time, so I didn't know about this.

I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.

I work for a multi billion multi national medical technology company at their office in central london. On day one after i got the job they gave me a brand spanking new top of the line macbook pro worth over £3k. I asked them for a bag for it and the IT guy who gave it to me looked like i slapped him in the face.

"Am i supposed to walk around central london with 3k of macbook in a plastic shopping bag?"

He produced some weird fabric envelope thing from a cupboard.

Luckily i'm sad enough to turn up to work with my own laptop in my own bag so i did have a bag but he had no way of knowing that

Do you get to choose it with a budget or they buy whatever cheap, uncomfortable thing was available? I'd much rather use my own equipment if I'm gonna be using it everyday.

If some nefarious actor wants to target me and steal my work laptop out of the work bag with the work logo on it, 🤷. I just work there, bro. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

OpenSUSE gives out cute little chameleon plushies and if that's wrong I don't want to be right.

The merchiest company in my country is one that does online casino software. Worst part is, they have the highest quality merch so people actually use it. I've seen the logo on like Thule backpacks and shit.

Hasn't gotten me to go work for them, but they're damn good at reminding people that they exist.