I finally upgraded my desk and I want to have appropriately clean cable management. I would need probably 4 of the option shown here, and that’s unnecessarily expensive, so I’m hoping yall have some ideas.

Also, ideally they wouldn’t be out in the open, since I’ve got a nibbly cat.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    306 months ago

    First thing I do is snip off all the wires so my computer is wireless.

  • @Eheran
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    196 months ago

    21 $ for a bend piece of steel? Hahaha.

    • @jimmydoreisalefty
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      116 months ago

      True, it seems way too expensive.

      Everything has increased in price though…

      Looking again at the picture, it seems to have a good amount of space though!

      Holy damn, look at the price of this!

  • @jimmydoreisalefty
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    156 months ago

    Good amount of velcro and zipties?

    Many great options:

    Seems Ikea has a smaller, but cheaper option (Other comment shows the larger tray):

    Loose cables, something like this:

    Box to put extension inside, ground level though:

    More Cable covers:

    Another desk tray:

    Floor cable organizer:

  • Dem Bosain
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    156 months ago

    Gutters. Go to your local Home Depot clone, get 8 feet (or cut one shorter) of vinyl gutter and some clips to hang them under your desk. Cut to length, hang under your desk.

    • @recklessengagement
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      46 months ago

      Ooh, this is clever. Love it when existing products work as cheap and effective solutions aside from their intended use case.

  • WashedOver
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    106 months ago

    I like the look of that one as it hides everything but it also hides everything so it could be hard to manage a bunch of cables and power bars but once it’s setup up how often would you need to go in there?

    I’ve used many of these over the years in office setups from IKEA. It’s a open design but with lots of places to hook wire loops.

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      76 months ago

      I used this particular rack for almost 20 years. It’s okay.

      It’s a bit cramped in it’s design. It was never easy to undo anything because it snags on everything.

      I switched to a design like the one in the pic but angled outwards and it’s just been a bit nicer.

    • @Magister
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      36 months ago

      I’m using it since WFH, screwed under the desk, it’s perfect

  • @Tahl_eN
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    36 months ago

    I’ve used 3M Command light clips for my under-desk cable management for years. It’s a little more fiddly on the initial setup, but is very low-profile and you can put the cables exactly where you want them. A pack of 16 3M Command light clips

  • @[email protected]
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    36 months ago

    Am I the only one seeing the black bird with grey beak sitting on its tush typing at a laptop in the thumbnail?

    • @ZoopZeZoop
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      36 months ago

      I didn’t until you said this, but now I do.

  • @nezbyte
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    36 months ago

    Beyond The Office Door has some good reviews of cable management options on their YouTube channel. Their review of the LTT options was particularly well done.

    https://youtu.be/yrrRj-F-vJ0

  • @[email protected]
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    26 months ago

    Most power strips have screw mounting options on the bottom. You could just mount the power strip directly to the desk “upside down”.

    Then use double sided Velcro to group all your wires together

  • @[email protected]
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    26 months ago

    I’ve seen this done with a section of vinyl gutter before. If you do an image search for pictures there are lots of examples. The version I saw was a reddit link, which I will not utter here.

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    If you don’t care about the underside of your desk, buy a box of cable clamps and hammer those fuckers in a line along the back edge.

    Then buy a bunch of tiny zipties and zip them to the clips. Leave enough room so if you need to, you can get a pair of scissors in and cut the ziptie off.

  • @subtext
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    26 months ago

    Saving this for later

    • @jimmydoreisalefty
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      16 months ago

      I concur!

      Always great to learn about cable management and organization!