My god, unplug the USB or just turn off the keyboard. Simple.
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.
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 😅
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
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!
Luckily, my Keyboard is so dirty that I need to pull off all keycaps anyway.
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?
Same, I was wondering why doesn’t the damn thing cleanse off
This was incredibly confusing for me because I washed my hands after opening this post. I picked up my phone, and I read your top comment before reading the post, and then I looked at my screen and I actually had water on my screen. I was like, “Damn that is some realistic looking water!” Then I wiped it on my shirt and it disappeared and I got really confused lol
Shower thoughts, clearly it needs water.
It has been saved, reposted and saved so many times that there is data loss making fuzzy artifacts in the picture.
It’s semen
- 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
Unplug it or turn it off if it’s wireless. Not that hard.
What is “unplug”? /j
It’s what happens when you trip over the lamp’s power cord, except for a keyboard.
Just lock the screen. The worst that’ll happen is a failed login or switching the keyboard layout or something.
Windows-L is the hotkey (in Windows at least), for those who maybe didn’t know.
And in GNOME. In KDE, it’s Ctrl+Alt+L. In macOS, it’s Cmd+Ctrl+Q.
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.
Not sure how long I’ve had this tool but several years at least. Nothing fancy, just toggles keyboard input temporarily so you can clean. Works for power key.
Years ago Apple rejected the app for the Mac App Store because apparently it’s “not useful”
Apple employees never clean their keyboards confirmed
I think there used to be a program for windows to lock the keyboard, too. Themed around protecting from cats walking across it, if anyone wants to look.
Everyone has a reason here why this isn’t necessary, but frankly it’s just not a dumb idea and especially relevant for shared workplace workstations. I’d rather have a disable for cleaning button than a windows button.
I don’t mind the windows button. It’s effectively a quick way to a run command.
Draw an S on there and bam! you have a Super button.
What’s a Super button you ask? It’s the S in S-M-butterfly. Or in other words: it’s an extra modifier key.
I think KDE plasma calls it the meta button. Now that’s ruined too!
Why would you be pressing down on the keys anyway? Just remove the caps so you can ACTUALLY clean the keyboard.
This might just be my keyboard specifically, but I broke some of the caps doing this and had to special-order replace them.
Birds love a deep clean!
I don’t clean my keyboard. I just add chia seeds and a little water. Chia keyboard ftw.
Chiaboard.
K-K-K-Keyboard!
