tectonic parent
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…
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