My god, unplug the USB or just turn off the keyboard. Simple.
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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.
Stray WHAT??? 😭
How are your pubes getting near your k--
wait, no I don't want the answer to that question.
There were two HDMI ports. (I selected the correct one)
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 😅
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.
Just open up notepad, start cleaning, and then use the resulting document as a word finder puzzle. Hell, if you're really lucky you might write the next best selling novel.
They told me it was already published by Shakespeare.
Wouldn't recommend this. I mean, it was publishable, sure. But there were tons of spelling errors.
Bah! That's what editors are for!
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.
Sounds like a mouthwash company
why does this image have built-in spit droplets
Image so old it got moldy
My dumb ass just went and tried to clean my screen before I read your comment
Did you put it into screen cleaning mode first?
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Luckily, my Keyboard is so dirty that I need to pull off all keycaps anyway.
- Unplug keyboard or turn off bluetooth.
- Clean keyboard.
ok but get this: I have a laptop
Unplug the laptop. Clean keyboard.
Or rip it out and clean it.
Rip and Tear until it is done lol
Best Buy said this isn’t covered under warranty.
Unplugging the keyboard requires getting down on my hands and knees, groping around to find a plug I can't visually see, and probably dislocating my shoulder in the process.
And then even more luck required to get the plug I can't see back IN, trying the USB every single way blind by feel only, and neither way wants to accept it's the right one.
It's an absolute last resort.
Its odd that keyboards don't have USB on the back of them. Every other peripheral does it seems, but they usually come hard wired.
My keyboard has a detachable cable so you can just unplug it from the keyboard
same, mine is also USB-C on the keyboard's end.
I'm happy for you
Yeah that's nice stuff.
I recently bought a mechanical keyboard with a USB C port for the connector. A cable came along with it.
The keyboard turned out to be absolute^[ok maybe not absolute, I might be able to salvage some components] garbage and I ended up with an expensive USB C cable.
Some keyboards have a lock button and most can be unplugged
Mostly only an issue for laptops.
Side note: whoever decided that pressing any key on the keyboard should turn on the computer should be shot. Fuck you Apple for bringing that back.
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