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[–] Andy3153@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't know what I do to keyboards when I use them for a really long time, but I have the exact same laptop frame and keyboard and most modifier keys are unrecognizable and half of the WASD keys are rarely used keys because I fucked up the keycaps while cleaning and I got other keys off the keyboard in place of them. So anyways, my Windows key is abused beyond recognition and you can't tell it was a Windows key.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy smoke, that's one well used laptop, I hope my laptop can last as long as yours

[–] Andy3153@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

4 years and 3 months still going strong. I use the touchpad a ton too and that coating on it has come off too, but it's perfectly usable. It also surprisingly lasted two pretty bad falls with just 1-2 minor cracks that I had to open the laptop up so that i can super glue the cracks just to ensure the cracks won't spread from future vibrations.

Visual condition is pretty unappealing, even a bit bad: the erased keycaps, the lifted coat off the touchpad and one visible crack, but it runs just as it did the day I got it

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

4 years? My laptop is from 2018 (with only the battery in a shitty condition), my mom had a laptop from ~2004 in 2021 (until I embarrassingly fried the motherboard when replacing the hdd). Electronics last forever if you don't murder them.

[–] magguzu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why are you going right so much more than left

[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, if you think about it you tend to go right in 2d games, so I'm guessing he's a fan

[–] Andy3153@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I mean I usually either play car games using the controller (BeamNG mostly), or I play 2d stuff (Terraria, Stardew Valley), and rarely FPS games (CS2)

[–] Andy3153@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My bad, didn't explain it well in my initial comment

I broke my A and S keys when cleaning: because the WASD keys on these keyboards are transparent, I could see all the hairs or dirt under them and once every 4 months let's say, I was pulling them off

And one day they didn't wanna reliably clip back in place anymore

So now I have Right Ctrl on A and Right FN on S to replace the keycaps

So, they're basically newer keys in there, and also they are not transparent like A and S were

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I might scratch mine now after seeing this. I prefer personalisation over most things honestly.

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can possibly get real creative with developing different scratch styles. From intentional needle drawing to the plastic equivalent of stonewashing jeans.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Triangle.

K. I. S. S.

[–] Andy3153@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

As dope as human scars are I guess