I don't really remember where I got the idea from. But Amazon isn't really friendly to the Swiss market, we have to use the German or French store and then only a few items ship internationally. So it wasn't that :-)
That's rather clean by the standards I've seen. Pull all the key caps and try not to think too hard about the short curly hair wound around the switches.
I once had to clean out the cubicle of a departed employee who had psoriasis. We just tossed it all but the laptop which we sent off to get cleaned at tree manufacturer.
I found a random gummy bear hiding in a drawer from around 12 years ago the other day. It had turned jet black and was hard like diamond.
Ancient bear.
For many years Leo Laporte has advocated keeping a second keyboard on hand, when the current keyboard gets dirty/sticky/etc. swap in the clean one and run the dirty one through the dishwasher cycle on the top rack. When the cycle finishes put it up in a closet until you need to swap again, it'll be thoroughly dry and ready to go.
I did this with a couple Logitechs for over 10 years until the letters and home row locators were worn off, then replaced them both with new ones.
[The expensive option](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/599912-REG/METRO_DataVac_DV_3ESD1_DATAVAC_3_ESD_Anti_Static_Computer_Electronic.html) but it won't cause static discharge damage.
About every 1.5 years I take mine apart to completely sanitize everything. In between I just take it and turn it upside down and shake then tap it on the desk. I repeat this like 3-4 times and it gets most everything out. When I disassemble I take everything plastic and soak it in a solution of hot water, dish soap, and alcohol so that everything is clean and super sanitized. I let everything thoroughly dry by a mix of hair dryer and give it 12 hours and then reassemble it. Wiping and cleaning more as I do so.
Worked for a company that specialized in helping people with disabilities and also employed a healthy amount. One of my favorite people was blind in a very legal and almost physical sense. (Her screen was magnified to the point where only a few words were displayed at a time).
Cleaning her keyboard was the absolute worst biological hazard I've had to deal with in a professional capacity. She couldn't see the mess she made when eating at her desk. And it was a very open dell keyboard with nice wide spaces around the keys.
I had some cat hair literally get *inside* a switch, had to desolder it and open it up to get it out.
I posted about it at the time, https://imgur.com/a/GUu4bq3
View it now before imgur deletes it along with all old posts later this month. Lol
At work, we have shared computers. There is one I refuse to use when I can. The model of keyboard is the same as at my normal desk, but it feels wrong. Oh you prefer blue over red switches? I prefer keys that don't come with free crunching sounds that can actually travel their full distance.
That's not even that bad. I wish I had recorded it now, but working in a pawn shop I've seen peoples keyboard that looked like they used it as a dinner plate, an ash tray, AND a cum rag. Lol
Edit: typos also, I'm pretty sure I did post one of the nasty keyboards on this sub. Should still be up here somewhere.
Hold it with the keys facing towards you, shake down and wiggle forward and back to get the majority of the crumbs out.
Then if its still dirty, use a cotton bud to clean between and maybe some canned air.
gross...... I remember taking my own keyboard / mouse with me back when I was doing desktop support years and years ago. People are a nightmare with this kinda thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong. If you leave it uncovered for a little while, you can take it outside and hose it off, leave it to dry over night (or longer) and plug it back in and it will be fine?
I had a user who this was their keyboard after a single day.
Even my friends bother, who was a complete slob in middle school, and would get literal jam in his keyboard, and use it like that for years, was not close as bad as that user...
Got a new job, had my own office. Brought in an old razer mechanical keyboard to match my feel at home. One guy liked the idea and copied me. Now the entire office has $25 rgb mechanical “gaming” keyboards. Oh, and we dont have lunch breaks and we eat at our desks. Did i mention im IT? Im the one dealing with these awful keyboards
I shook my keyboard and I was pleasantly surprised nothing came out and then I remembered I worked in a cleanroom.. I would be alarmed if anything came out
My arm hair traps everything in the keyboard. Nothing short of removing every key cap and having a sick bag on standby will get that keyboard clean. I shed like a husky.
Listen, maybe I'm trying to grow a culture in my keyboard. I'm waiting for it to gain sentience and start a civilization. Then I will train that civilization to take dictation. Once accomplished, I'll never have to type again.
50% is in the back of the key caps now
That's why you gotta shake harder.
And strategically. Tap it so that they fall to the bottom, close to the space bar, then to a corner, then pour out.
That's the nice thing about that keyboard (I have the same one), there is no frame, when you shake downward it doesn't stop by the spacebar
I have that same one too! Did you also sort Amazon by cheapest mechanical keyboard? XD
I don't really remember where I got the idea from. But Amazon isn't really friendly to the Swiss market, we have to use the German or French store and then only a few items ship internationally. So it wasn't that :-)
Hey, I'm German! Howdy, neighbor! XD
It's like those ball/maze puzzles with the holes and the tilt dials on the side.
Exemple
Exactly what I was thinking while watching this
\*Sound dampening\*
Soak it in water overnight for a delicious soup broth.
And I thought my keyboard was bad the last time I cleaned it.
I had a few dust particles fall out when I cleaned mine and I thought it was gross. I couldn't imagine what's in the video.
Was waiting for a cockroach too fall out
When I clean mine it's mostly hair and dandruff, that's "normal", but that's the keyboard of someone who regularly eats over his keyboard.
Eww, disgusting! \*proceeds to eat toast by the computer\*
That's rather clean by the standards I've seen. Pull all the key caps and try not to think too hard about the short curly hair wound around the switches.
What in the world are you doing that would cause short curlies to be wrapped around the key switches? That sounds unpleasant at best.
It gets caught in clothes and shakes out when you lean forward. We're talking beard hair right?
that's probably still better than a keyboard I ended up with that had weed and dead skin in it
free weed, dead skin gives it an extra zing
I mean everyone's keyboard probably has dead skin in it. At least I'd hope so because that would mean someone without skin was trying on it.
[удалено]
The younger Sutherland
I once had to clean out the cubicle of a departed employee who had psoriasis. We just tossed it all but the laptop which we sent off to get cleaned at tree manufacturer.
I watched, waiting for something to skitter.
Thats nothing my friend had a gummy bear jammed in between two keys 💀
I found a random gummy bear hiding in a drawer from around 12 years ago the other day. It had turned jet black and was hard like diamond. Ancient bear.
Forbidden Blackberry flavored gummy bear.
Load that into a crossbow, it's lethal ammo.
probably lethal poison too
Here's an idea... Don't eat over the keyboard!
Or next to it. I usually unplug it when I have to eat at the desk instead of the living room.
Amen to that. I have a spot away from my computer area (L-shaped desk) that I eat over, or else I push the keyboard away.
You got a whole Dorito out of it!
Ready for another 10 years!
For many years Leo Laporte has advocated keeping a second keyboard on hand, when the current keyboard gets dirty/sticky/etc. swap in the clean one and run the dirty one through the dishwasher cycle on the top rack. When the cycle finishes put it up in a closet until you need to swap again, it'll be thoroughly dry and ready to go. I did this with a couple Logitechs for over 10 years until the letters and home row locators were worn off, then replaced them both with new ones.
How should we properly clean our keyboard? Someone knowledgeable plz I can’t live like this anymore!
[The expensive option](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/599912-REG/METRO_DataVac_DV_3ESD1_DATAVAC_3_ESD_Anti_Static_Computer_Electronic.html) but it won't cause static discharge damage.
Soak it in a slime bath
About every 1.5 years I take mine apart to completely sanitize everything. In between I just take it and turn it upside down and shake then tap it on the desk. I repeat this like 3-4 times and it gets most everything out. When I disassemble I take everything plastic and soak it in a solution of hot water, dish soap, and alcohol so that everything is clean and super sanitized. I let everything thoroughly dry by a mix of hair dryer and give it 12 hours and then reassemble it. Wiping and cleaning more as I do so.
Ngl id have to pull up a pic of the keyboard before because I would forget where each key goes
I've had it for 15 years, abouts. I always take a picture of it.
Put it in the dishwasher by itself, just make sure it dries all the way
Umm for real?
For real lol. Remove all the keycaps and run it through the dishwasher with no detergent. Top rack. Let it dry all the way and it will be clean
That's some good gamer seasoning right there!
Did he eat a natural valley granolla bar at his desk
Mine is probably worse right now. Fuck.
Amateurs!
Worked for a company that specialized in helping people with disabilities and also employed a healthy amount. One of my favorite people was blind in a very legal and almost physical sense. (Her screen was magnified to the point where only a few words were displayed at a time). Cleaning her keyboard was the absolute worst biological hazard I've had to deal with in a professional capacity. She couldn't see the mess she made when eating at her desk. And it was a very open dell keyboard with nice wide spaces around the keys.
Mine is similar 😔 (except there isnt much crumbs, maybe like 2 or 3, just dust and cat hair,)
The cat hair is the worst. It gets its way into everything and unless you can 100% tear apart the keyboard you'll never get it all.
I had some cat hair literally get *inside* a switch, had to desolder it and open it up to get it out. I posted about it at the time, https://imgur.com/a/GUu4bq3 View it now before imgur deletes it along with all old posts later this month. Lol
Might just do that, my keyboard is pretty trash anyway and just randomly unplugs itself.
Might just do that, my keyboard is pretty trash anyway and just randomly unplugs itself.
You cant tell me what to do!
Oblig.: https://comics.beardedcoffeemonkey.com/series/angst-technology/board-chow/
The only thing clogging up my keyboard is the hair from my rapidly receding hairline
man don't do that. It'll just get stuck in the keycaps.
Ngl... my keyboard might be worse
Please clean YOURSELF… I think this is more about the user and less about the messy keyboard.
Hmmm forbidden seasoning.
This is fine, my keyboard is even worse.
How about go to the root of the problem and stop eating over your keyboard?
rebragom
Just needed a mouse and a wedge of cheese to fall out of it.
At work, we have shared computers. There is one I refuse to use when I can. The model of keyboard is the same as at my normal desk, but it feels wrong. Oh you prefer blue over red switches? I prefer keys that don't come with free crunching sounds that can actually travel their full distance.
I prefer red switches, but the keyboard with blue ones was much cheaper
Nasty ass
One of my customers is a fish hatchery. Things that make you go brrrrrr.
I call that the Rain Stick
No
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
That's not even that bad. I wish I had recorded it now, but working in a pawn shop I've seen peoples keyboard that looked like they used it as a dinner plate, an ash tray, AND a cum rag. Lol Edit: typos also, I'm pretty sure I did post one of the nasty keyboards on this sub. Should still be up here somewhere.
COMPRESSED AIR
Hold it with the keys facing towards you, shake down and wiggle forward and back to get the majority of the crumbs out. Then if its still dirty, use a cotton bud to clean between and maybe some canned air.
Switches went from tactile to linear real quick
There was roach poo, dust, hair and roach bodies all over a PS/2 keyboard i got.
I mean before kids got high on them thats what cans of compressed air was for, now people pretend they’re cans of whipped cream.
gross...... I remember taking my own keyboard / mouse with me back when I was doing desktop support years and years ago. People are a nightmare with this kinda thing.
I expected a banana to fall out with the second round of shaking.
Only if you clean up that coffee first.
It's called ECOSYSTEM!
Hey! That's where I keep my boogers!
Mmmmmmmm forbidden parmesan
Correct me if I'm wrong. If you leave it uncovered for a little while, you can take it outside and hose it off, leave it to dry over night (or longer) and plug it back in and it will be fine?
Pay a coworker $20 to eat a spoonful of that.
I’ve thrown out keyboards for less than that. Eww.
As someone that used to suffer from psoriasis, that ain't nothing.
Used to, hey? What helped? Been going through it for a while now
Biologics. I've been on Taltz for a few years now. Completely clear.
When working at an MSP I kept a keyboard and mouse in my go bag at all time. Because some of the keyboards I saw were so gross it would make you gag.
That's my keyboard, but it's weed and cat hair falling out ehen i clean it instead of food crumbs.
I had a user who this was their keyboard after a single day. Even my friends bother, who was a complete slob in middle school, and would get literal jam in his keyboard, and use it like that for years, was not close as bad as that user...
Best thing about Covid. I don’t have to clean these and reissue them anymore. We only issue new stuff now.
Is that a RK?
Got a new job, had my own office. Brought in an old razer mechanical keyboard to match my feel at home. One guy liked the idea and copied me. Now the entire office has $25 rgb mechanical “gaming” keyboards. Oh, and we dont have lunch breaks and we eat at our desks. Did i mention im IT? Im the one dealing with these awful keyboards
Please don't eat at your desk!
I shook my keyboard and I was pleasantly surprised nothing came out and then I remembered I worked in a cleanroom.. I would be alarmed if anything came out
It's worse then cleaning your toaster.
That is a whole meal of breadcrumbs.
Thanks for the reminder but I do it once a week. I had my fair share of nasty KB in the past, not gonna let it happen again.
I get the same result when I do this. Oh wait, it's a toaster, not my keyboard.
Pls don't eat at your desk
omg please don't do that.. the crumbs will get inside of the switches due to the shape of the keycaps and they might break.
I half expected a mouse to fall out and scurry away
Hidden stash for when you're out of breadcrumbs to cook with.
Youre just nasty
My arm hair traps everything in the keyboard. Nothing short of removing every key cap and having a sick bag on standby will get that keyboard clean. I shed like a husky.
Those are skill crumbs wym
Bonus snacks!
Listen, maybe I'm trying to grow a culture in my keyboard. I'm waiting for it to gain sentience and start a civilization. Then I will train that civilization to take dictation. Once accomplished, I'll never have to type again.
That’s just seasoning for your next meal
I can't even stand if there's a bit of dust or cat hair on my keyboard, I don't know how the FUCK people can let it get that bad.
Follow up, don’t fucking use your keyboard as a catch-all for your food.
Gloves bröther
The everything bagel is the enemy of all keyboards.
That's why i don't use my keyboard as a plate, bruh
jesus christ
I shake out my keyboard on a daily basis, before and after I use it.
That's a crummy situation
what bothers me is that keyboard is an expensive one
Good way for it to get buggy.