My laptop is getting a little old, but I love it and I don’t want to replace it. This means: Dongles.

You know what the worst part of dongle life is? Digging through my bag trying to find the little f*ckers. You know what would be easier? If I could just mount my dongles onto the lid of my laptop and then pull them off when I need them. Maybe some kind of a rubber mount, so it’s firm enough to keep them in place, but flexible enough that I can remove the dongle when I need it. Crude mockup here.

If oriented correctly, the dongles won’t protrude that much, so my laptop will still fit inside a sleeve/case/etc. I’m currently using a phone mount on the back of my laptop and it hasn’t made anything worse in that way.

Can someone make this, please?

The dongles that I need to mount:

  • USB-A male to USB-C female
  • Mini DisplayPort male to HDMI female
  • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Instead of making bespoke mounts for the cables I’d think a small thin pouch would be more versatile and less likely to snag when taking the laptop in/out of a case. Or just get some velcro strips and attach the cables that way.