If you go one of the subreddits on Reddit.com celebrating pristine computer builds, the site of a single inch of cable raises hackles. As someone who has been setting up computers since 1979--yes really--I have never worried much about cables. I'm forever having to add/subtract, move peripherals, so cable management would have been inhibiting and inconvenient. I've been working from home like many for the last year (it was a year Friday). Over this time I've tweaked my home system immensely. Since I do spend a lot of time in it, I have thought some of cable management. Not so much in making them disappear--that's an ideal I'll never hit--but rather somewhat less chaotic. The most offensive part was my docking station. I'd bought a small docking station that accepted two monitors, two USB inputs and an ethernet cable. That way I could switch from work laptop to personal laptop by switching one cable; not several. I connected a powered USB hub to one of the USB...
Thoughts of a long time computer user
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