[tylermenezes]

> Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top"

For 7 years my desktop has been literally just a motherboard sitting on a cut-up yoga mat on my bookshelf. [1] The SSDs are piled next to it. My work PC is zip-tied to a milk crate. Don't let people fool you, you can be pretty creative with your definition of "case".

[1] https://i.imgur.com/NkEmS4N.png

[checkyoursudo]

My old i5-2500K based build was like that for many, many years. It sat on my desk on top of an anti-static bag (that the motherboard came in). The new graphics card I had, which was a gtx 480 maybe, wouldn't fit in the old case I had.

It took me at least 5 years to get a new case, much to my wife's annoyance.

It was fine. Swapping SSDs was easy. >.<

[wlesieutre]

But my case (with mesh intakes) serves the important function of keeping cat hair out of the heatsinks

[tylermenezes]

I actually have a medium-hair cat and it's been fine. But it's pretty far off the floor.

[wlesieutre]

Yeah now that you mention it, mine has needed this a lot less since I hung it under the desk earlier this year. It used to be on the floor.

[gpanders]

That’s awesome. Are yoga mats dissipative? Is this like a poor man’s ESD mat (figuratively speaking, not trying to imply that you’re poor)?

[tylermenezes]

No idea, at the very least it didn't seem to build up a static charge, and it's worked fine for me for a long time. I imagine it probably depends on the specific yoga mat.

I used to just have it directly on the wood, which was fine too, but then I put it on top of an upside-down, powder-coated-metal IKEA drawer thing (so I could put the power supply underneath for more shelf space). My fiancee was worried it might get scratched and conduct at some point, so we added the yoga mat.

[goodpoint]

> Are yoga mats dissipative?

Not at all, it's plastic!

[netizen-9748]

The party hats are a nice touch

[tylermenezes]

Thanks! I made them for a video Github put out last year, [1] and decided to keep 'em around.

https://youtu.be/w5HykygC43Y?t=7