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There’s definitely some leftover coke crusted in some of my keyboards…
Mmmm board chow
Can confirm. Back at the beginning of my IT career (mid 1980’s), I worked as a temp for a computer manufacturer in their refurb repairs department. In those days, kit was so expensive that everything got repaired if it went wrong, and one of my jobs was repairing keyboards - PC keyboards, and dumb terminal ones - and the first part of the process was stripping and cleaning them. There was a lot more room for crumbs and dust back then, too, and man did they get full. Crumbs, staples, paper clips, hair grips, all sorts. I had literal mould growing in some of them. I remember the ones coming in from Italy were the worst for that for some reason.
A couple months in a shipping container is likely the cause of that.
It didn’t quite work like that. They used to arrive boxed in batches. The keyboards were worth about £100 back then - so would be worth a lot more in today’s money - and they were looked after with care whilst in transit. It was the end users (in offices) that put the gunk there.
I too use Dvorak 👋
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There are dozens of us, dozens!
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You have to make sure all of your keys still work, you never know
It would be nice if there was a button or some app that could temporarily disable the keyboard, so it could be cleaned without accidentally changing settings for a running app, writing your boss you are not coming to work on Monday, firing few nukes, or wiping your whole system.
I just unplug it for a few minutes or lock my system
I have the keyboard plugged into a monitor and accessing the USB hub is seriously complicated, so that’s not really an option for me.
But I could try locking the system. I just hope I won’t lock myself out for few hours, because I have pressed Enter multiple times while cleaning it.
You can use a pair of scissors to terminate the connection anywhere along the wire and it will achieve the same thing
Thanks, I’ll do this next time.
Create a new local user w/o permissions and switch to that login before cleaning it. That way you only lock a fake user lol.
Guessing unplugging from the monitor is difficult as well?
Why not just write a script that would brick your PC so there is no risk anything would go wrong cleaning, and then just reinstall your OS when you’re done?
Because then I have to set up my environment again
there’s something like that in Bazzite! If you go to the menu -> system settings -> language -> keyboard, then physically unplug the keyboard, the keyboard should now be disabled!
I figured there would be a simple setting for that in KDE Plasma, but looking it up, I am just getting results about disabling the virtual onscreen keyboard
I though so as well. However, I don’t even see anything similar to disabling (USB) devices like in Windows.
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… the off-button?
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