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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

My god, unplug the USB or just turn off the keyboard. Simple.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

I bought an expensive mechanical keyboard. It is the bane of my existence.

Oversensitive little princess that needs its precious little keycaps polished every other week to stop it from double tapping itself, and when that doesn't work you have to program it not to hiccup, and yet it still does.

Never used to have this problem with the cheap plastic ones I used to buy.

Dont buy into the mechanical keyboard fad. It's a scam for idiots like myself who think pretty LEDs will solve their nonexistent problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have a mechanical keyboard and have double click issues. I just kinda press down the keys really hard until they stop double clicking...

Is there a software solution for this? Like something that prevents double clicking by filtering keyboard inputs? ^for^ ^Wayland,^ ^on^ ^Linux?^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've owned many boards and have never heard of such issues. That sounds like a really cheap one, or inexperienced company.

I've never had issues with many switches between Cherry, Kailh, Gateron, etc

A lot of the better brands include LEDs too. It's just another checkbox on the product comparison sheet. Not like you can't shut em off anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Keychron Q1 Max. Google it, double press and keyboard chatter is a recurring problem.

They even released a new firmware recently specifically to tackle the problem, and still it persists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Your mistakes was buying for the leds and not the switches. I have one with mx cherry blues, it is built like a tank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I got banana switches. Gutter shite.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have a mechanical keeb and cleaned it once in the last year I think you purchased a PoS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What keyboard did you get?

I would steer clear of gaming mechanicals now but I've switched to Keychron and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

You're supposed to clean your keyboard?

I bought one with lights and it's a glorious display case for my collection of dead skin, crumbs and stray pubes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Stray WHAT??? 😭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

How are your pubes getting near your k--

wait, no I don't want the answer to that question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Luckily, my Keyboard is so dirty that I need to pull off all keycaps anyway.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just try to clean the keyboard on a MacBook, though. If you shut it down, it will start back up again as soon as you start pressing keys 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

You're supposed to take it to the Apple store, where they will charge you $800 to "clean" the keyboard, by replacing and throwing away half the computer. This is the correct user experience. /s

Apple hates making functional serviceable machines anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Esterline make specialised keyboards that are specifically for sterile environments which have this feature. You press a button, the keys are ignored and you can wipe the keyboard down.

https://www.advancedinput.com/medigenic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Sounds like a mouthwash company

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Cybertruck is far ahead

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

There were two HDMI ports. (I selected the correct one)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Why would you be pressing down on the keys anyway? Just remove the caps so you can ACTUALLY clean the keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

This might just be my keyboard specifically, but I broke some of the caps doing this and had to special-order replace them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Birds love a deep clean!

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