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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.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

21 $ for a bend piece of steel? Hahaha.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years 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!

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Album@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] leverage@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

I'm happy with 4x of these trays from Monoprice, cheaper than everything else posted so far as well. Fits a beefy power strip (don't cheap out on power) with room to stuff cables and power bricks. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33815

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget about the ones inside.

I did say all the wires.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It would be absolutely asinine to spend that much money on something you could build yourself. No I will not elaborate on how cause isk how but someone does but not me cuz I'm tarded

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I concur!

Always great to learn about cable management and organization!

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years 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: