this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
32 points (73.5% liked)
Showerthoughts
30994 readers
1158 users here now
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
more than? how?
The apple shape is pretty indicative for me.
I think they mean that the sticker makes it stand out, putting the model/brand into your conscious mind. If a Macbook is displayed normally onscreen, it is just some prop that you might not pay any additional attention to at all. Sure, you unconsciously know that it is an Apple product, but that fact is not at the front of your mind at all. With the Apple logo covered, you still know that it is an Apple product all the same, but you are actually consciously thinking about fact.
Which is kind of the point.
Apple paid a shit ton of money over the years to get their devices into enough tv shows and movies and even students at universities to do that. They want to be the default so that you have that "Oh, wow. Gwart has a Dell?" moment. And they want the writers to know that so that... frigging Gwart has a Dell.
As for covering it up? The prop department doesn't care about Apple's image, they just do what the production team tells them. And the production team doesn't care about Apple's image, they just want to make Apple pay for it.
As for in real life? I know a lot of people who put stickers over anything that is an LED that lights up when you use it. And I've personally always put a sticker or two on my work and personal laptops just so that I can identify it at a glance. You haven't lived until you have watched people have to check the lock screen to figure out which laptop is which.
It's because Apple products are instantly recognizable but the logo gets covered up in media for legal reasons. A big BBC sticker on the back of a macbook just makes it even more obvious that it's a macbook because it draws the eye to it and often the light bleeds through the thin stickers anyway