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# Of Course I Put My PC On The Floor, What Am I, An Idiot
- URL: https://aftermath.site/i-keep-my-pc-on-the-floor-where-it-belongs/
- Published: 2025-08-07T23:30:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-08T18:10:06.000Z
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: Blog, desktop pc, pc, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00, Hardware

I woke up this morning to a surprise: my colleague Riley MacLeod, having seen my excited social media posts yesterday (I got a new PC!),[ had written a whole blog post about how I keep my PC on the floor](https://aftermath.site/pc-desk-floor/).

> new pc! and it matches the desk lol
> 
> — [Luke Plunkett (@lukeplunkett.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhqvuggd6ebasluetrqfab6n?ref%5Fsrc=embed&ref=aftermath.site) [2025-08-07T01:49:19.488Z](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhqvuggd6ebasluetrqfab6n/post/3lvrmpaweqc2x?ref%5Fsrc=embed&ref=aftermath.site)

In a 600-word piece that is more an indictment on New York City than a commentary on my PC or its placement, Riley worries about two main factors potentially affecting my new purchase: cockroaches and dust,[ citing a 2018 Kotaku blog about roaches getting inside a PlayStation 4](https://kotaku.com/console-repairmen-explain-why-cockroaches-love-ps4s-1794393470?ref=aftermath.site).

I don't know how to tell you this Riley, aside from pointing at this company's needlessly complicated ownership and taxation situation thanks to its international composition, but I don't live in New York City, and this is not a PlayStation 4\. I live in a [cold](https://region.com.au/canberrans-shiver-through-a-record-breaking-june-with-more-chilly-days-on-the-way/882396/?ref=aftermath.site), dry, Australian city that doesn't have a cockroach problem, and I live in a house where I vacuum the floor and keep a clean office. My last PC, which was kept in the exact same spot, only had to be properly dusted out *once* in its five-year lifespan. And it also had a glass side panel, meaning I could be kept very much up-to-speed on its dust situation!

Besides, leaving all that peripheral stuff aside...how the fuck am I supposed to keep this thing on my desk? It's huge, and would take up like 1/3 of my desk's usable free space, space I need for actual desk items like microphones, speakers, headphones, a mouse pad and my keyboard. It's also heavy, and even with its fancy case and modern fans, surprisingly noisy once you get really close to it. Which I would be if I sat it on my desk, right next to my *head*.

Riley ended his blog charitably, in a 'just asking questions' kinda way, asking people for their opinions on the matter. As someone for whom this wasn't even a question, not even the remotest possibility, something that never even once entered into my head when plugging it in, I'll do no such thing; if you keep your PC on your desk the only question I'll ask is *is everything OK?*