My wife asked me if I could take a look at her keyboard because some of the keys suddenly had stopped working.
I checked the keyboard and saw that crumbs were literally blocking the keys. I gave it a shake, the crumbs fell out, and the keyboard started working again.

Nooo! Now she will expect from you to fix everything else! 😂

Next time add soup to it ;P

Sounds like you're a miracle worker. The hardware is working once more thanks to you.

/jk

Crumbs... that's disgusting.

@D-4got10-01 those who never had crumbs in their keyboard should throw the first mouse!

@Lensflare I like my mouse way too much to risk damaging it, though. I don't eat by the keyboard. Saves me the risk of getting it dirty.

@D-4got10-01 normally keyboards break (due to planned obsolescence) faster than they get dirty. So I don’t worry about that anymore.

@Lensflare https://reddit.com/r/...

This is the only keyboard one needs

@D-4got10-01 even when you don't eat there, it's nice to clean up all the biological material humans commonly sheds

@Lensflare wtf are you doing with your keyboards? i've got the cheapest stock dell KB for offices and it's in almost daily use for 13 years now

@qwwerty I tried cheap ones, I tried expensive ones, and I tried everything in between.
Basically the price doesn’t matter.
You need to get lucky to find one which doesn‘t break in a few years in some way.
I count wearing off key labels als "breaking", too.
The more recent the model is, the more likely and the sooner it will need to be replaced.

@antigermanist but where is the copilot button?

@Lensflare You can get keycaps that where the letter is "shot through" the cap so if it's fading, you've worn all the way through. But my apex legend has served me for 7ish years now. Granted I haven't actively been using it for 1.5 now but it's been plugged in (wanted to try 10 keyless, a CIDOO V65 and it's quite for a mechanical keyboard, but I miss the numpad, and fn is a lie)

@BordedDev I don’t buy keyboards so expensive that it would be worth replacing key caps.

Tbh, not being able to see some of the keys anymore is not such a big deal and doesn’t automatically make me buy a new one.
But I still see it as a form of planned obsolescence because come on, is this the fucking best that we can do now? Really? Keyboards from the 90s didn’t have this problem. Are we fucking developing backwards?
Of course it’s intentional.

@Lensflare I've never replaced a keycap 😅. I think the mechanical spring thing will wear out before I wear through the keycap. But yes, it's because they print them on top

@Lensflare I spilled a cup of coffee over my logitech. Still working like a charm

@Lensflare Hmm... that's true. My old keyboards would last much longer than the more recent ones.

@qwwerty Never said that I don't clean them. Most of the time it's just dusting off, though, because that's enough.

@antigermanist logitech is the worst of them all.
I had mice, gamepads, speakers and headphones from logitech which all broke after about one year.
A friend of mine had the same gamepad and it broke the exact same way after about the same time.
I‘m boycotting the crap out of those fuckers.

@Lensflare Ah yeah, logitech has specific lines which are meant to last and ones which are meant to die

@BordedDev and I‘m one of those customers who is meant to show them the finger.

@Lensflare oh well i'll tell u if it break

@antigermanist you don’t need to. It doesn’t matter how many don’t break. It matters how many break.

@Lensflare Leaving a comment because I can't ++ twice ;P

@D-4got10-01 I am just curious about the mouse you use

@AlwaysSceptical - teach your wife to turn the keyboard upside down and then lightly bump just one corner of the keyboard on the table, the amount of shit coming out just from that is amazing but also gross at the same time.

I have a boring tuna so i have a boring life and because of that i buy mechanical keyboards.

Cleaning them few times a year is the important part of their and my health too (especially the mental part of my health).

Don't get me started on keycaps, i bought like several different monocolor sets of doubleshot see-through keycaps of the same type so i can combine them as i wish.

@devJs My current one is the 'Logitech G502 X'. It's a hit-n-miss. Especially when it comes to the scroll wheel. It doesn't have 'steps' as most mice do. In turn it is capable of continuous scrolling. To stop it from moving, you need to manually touch the wheel w/ your finger.

Such functionality has its pros && cons. Another con is that it is very sensitive, so attempting to use the Middle Mouse Button can sometimes accidentally trigger the scroll wheel.

Generally I liked my previous mouse better - 'Corsair Glaive'. That one fit my hand very well && worked just fine. The only reason I replaced it was that it was old && the Left Mouse Button started randomly double-clicking when pressed only once.

@D-4got10-01 Ah my G903 can do that as well, but I can also "lock" the scroll wheel so it functions like a normal one

@BordedDev Well, that's what I get for targeting mid-tier hardware. Still, I'm slowly getting accustomed to it. All in all, though, the 'feature' has always been available to me via other means like PgDn or Ctrl+End, etc.

@D-4got10-01 That's more logitech's artificial market segmenting, because it would have cost them less than a cent to add that button