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garak
@garak

In my personal life, I do not practice good cable management with my computing devices. In fact, I might go as far as actively practicing bad cable management.

Behind my desk is an unholy mess of wires of different diameters, colors, and purposes tangled in a thicket. My daily routine includes plugging and unplugging a handful of devices because I don't have enough sockets for everything. I could invest in more hubs and power strips, but I prefer this ritual. Swapping my lamp for my work laptop charger is practically what serves as my morning commute.

I like the look of a sprawl of wires. To me, this is how technology should look. Not hiding what it is, but raw and transparent. Technology inherently has power, and complexity, and more than a little of arcane exclusivity, and I like that visible. I feel like an oracle when I reach into a drawer and know by feel which USB cord will fit my e-reader. I want more wires for my set-up, barely hidden and threatening to burst out and spill over the floor and up the wall.

I'n not actually all that concerned about the look of the devices themselves. I just want wires between the devices. I want the collective to look like more than the sum of its parts, and I want that sum to look like a haunted swamp made of silicon and copper.


garak
@garak

Organized wires gives the impression that a bunch of computers belong in the Realm of Order, and they are a well-behaved system that can be understood. You know it ain't. You know it. You tell yourself that your organized router diagrams and wire protocols means that it's feasible to know, even in theory, which bits are going where but then you plug when you sleep so you're not woken by your own screams as your dreams are invaded by your brain's knowledge of its own futility against the vagaries of timing and noise and signal and deliverability.

Cable management tricks us to believing the computers can be treated as livestock, when they are still feral animals.

I don't want my machines to hide. I don't trust the new devices that hide in the walls and communicate with radio. When machines communicate, their organization should be Brutalist to remind you of what they are. The organization of every computing system is a piecemeal amalgamation of the contradicting needs over time of the humans who created it. The rocks that the machines used to be don't care one whit about us, but they act like they rage against the meat-borne mistakes that they are twisted into the shape of.

That's why I keep my cables exposed. All of my devices look like they are part of a nest of live vipers. Don't let your guard down.


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