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Rant: My desk looked like a spaghetti monster until I hit 40 bucks on velcro straps
For like 5 years I just shoved every cord behind my desk and prayed. Phone charger, monitor cable, a dead USB hub I never unplugged, all tangled into one big knot. Then last week I pulled out my laptop and the whole pile came with it, almost took out my coffee mug. So I spent 40 dollars on a roll of velcro straps and a cable sleeve at a hardware store near my place in Cleveland. Now I label each strap with a tiny piece of tape, takes me 2 minutes to reroute anything. My wife walked by and said, "did you get a new desk or something?" Nope, just sorted the snake pit. Has anyone else found that labeling each cord saves more time than the actual bundling does?
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troy_ross1mo ago
Wait, a dead USB hub? You kept a hub plugged in for who knows how long and it was just sitting back there doing nothing the whole time? That part is wild to me. I have a drawer full of dead stuff I refuse to toss but at least it's not sucking power for no reason. The label thing makes sense though, because once you forget which black cable goes to which thing you're back to square one. Two minutes to reroute beats twenty minutes of untangling and guessing. I might actually grab some tape and do this over the weekend.
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