Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what’s this or that sticker. I’m impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
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Thanks, those give me ideas for making more operator logos like these (No AI but mostly CC0 (public domain) because my creative input is questionable, some are just tracing of scaled-down images with a few touch-ups; I’m not too concerned about sharing non-FOSS trademarks under a permissive licence at such low res)
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
This is not an AI-generated pic, it’s a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).
Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.
Looking closely at Perl, it seems there are photorealistic (hard to tell if AI) photos toned blue, abstract shapes that might be edited/vectorized photos, and in the bottom right there’s a bead necklace that’s so unshapely it’s an AI giveaway. Well spotted, it was indeed made using AI-generated images!
Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.
And the hand and face (bottom right) on Gimp
The GIMP one is the worst
In that way, yes, but the logos that feature small text (Groovy, Lua) didn’t turn out well at all.
These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
I got them from Etsy
Ugh… just say you made them if is your shop… this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice…
Why though? Just curious
It reeks of “manufactured organic content” if that makes sense. This may not have been OPs intention, but it kinda checks those marks:
- post content, praise it, don’t mention you make and sell it
- another user finds out you make and sell it, posts store link
- post disguised as advert, manufactured organic conversation around the product creates an effective advertisment
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this is what modern advertising is and I prefer to have full transparency. A disclosure in the post would have been nice. Again, I’m not saying this was OP’s intention, it just hits the same points.
You’re not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven’t shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just “I’m proud of this”. If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don’t sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they’re so inclined.
Why did you lie then? A user asked if you made them. You could have just said „yes, I made them, and if someone wants them, I also sell them“
I see.
So you don’t have an issue with it being etsy but the intention/direction of the post?
Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).
They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.
Here’s the list of logos row by row so you don’t have to awkwardly ask what they are
Steam (not FOSS)*
“LL” (what?)*
Zigbee
Obsidian (not FOSS)*
Brave
ProtonpassTailscale*
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
Android (not really FOSS)*
SignalDigitalOcean (service)*
Ubuntu
Linux
Claude (not FOSS)*
Proxmox
Nextcloud
Jellyfin (rotated)Trilium
Nginx
Tabby
Bash
Debian (rotated)
DockerNodeJS
Python
HomeBox
XPipe
PiHole
Prometheus
Grafana* = not in gallery of printable sticker images
What is the “LL” monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.
Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit
Do your and your partner’s names both start with L?
It isn’t but that’s a great idea. Mosaic of photos of us to make our initials. You’re a genius.
Out of interest by “selfhosting” steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I’m missing lol
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few “normie” stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don’t self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that’s not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker…
Not everyone is a degenerate
Not everyone is a degenerate
Not everyone ADMITS to being a degenerate
FTFY ;-P
Not everyone watched pornography
Not in this tab anyway…
Should be a stash sticker if we’re selfhosting
What is stash?
Plex for porn
Sigh looks like I’m spinning up something else.
You can use jellyfin for this 👀
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
Also Steam… i mean it’s a LOT of games!
I’m proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you’re good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
No, but I refuse to pay my VPS for GPU time so I self host Gemma3:27B with RAG on Ollama over tailnet to make a choose your own adventure medical protocol simulator. I’m sure Claude could give me some context breathing room but not at those token prices. I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server and that would maybe justify the self hosted butthole.
I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server
But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.
Exactly, so… why the Claude sticker? Seemed like a cool concept to me tbh; till I read the comments and realized multiple things up there aren’t actually being selfhosted 🤷♂️
Edit: and this is clearly self-promotion (AD) sharing their own etsy links. Shameful. Just be honest and you would have gotten a better reaction
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
I’ve used both but really like jotty…
I’d love if there was a Gravatar-style thing you could choose hexes like these to display as a digital badge. Even better if it was self-hosted.
Per your suggestion I put the high res files up, self hosted, for anything that is FOSS. I guess someone can pull one of those for their Gravatar that way. I thought of a way to use this art style for conference badges but the detail is already small at a 2" hex that it wouldn’t be practical.
Old HA logo but neat
No, hardest part was obsidian livesync
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability Plex Brand of media server package Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
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I don’t get how you “self-host” some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
