Some are dressing the switches themselves with fluorinated lipids, so I’ve heard.
But nobody got time for that to disassemble the housing. Which is potentially destructive in case of those low-profile switches. The springs may choose their own chaotic exit pattern, those contacts are a bit delicate … and do that 110+ times, depending on your choose keyboard layout. Nope. Not for me.
Long story short. I bought this as a convenience item, factory pre-lubed. GPL-205 is at least as expensive as high quality thermal paste.
In other instances I’ve used other lubricants which are accessible in bulk, at a fraction of the cost. With similar viscosity and compositions that shouldn’t cause harm.
Anyway. But you know, if you’ve ever bought the wrong kind of pine nuts … as their cheap price was simply to attractive to not buy them, you might have had a bad experience and a strong bitter & metallic aftertaste for some days or even one or two weeks.
So far, no complains from my side.
But as a conclusion: I could have saved the money on the tactile switches, I pretty much prefer the silent switches. They do require a bit more actuation force. Thus I’ve had sore fingers the last days…
i do see i tried to clean my MX-Keys, but it is almost impossible to get the caps off.. They use the same plastic skeleton as on notebook keyboards. Managed to get off space key as of cat hair was stacked under it.. but feels very bad almost broke it.. better to blast with high pressure air.
I guess the MX Keys does have a battery build in ?
If its a wired version, I’ld throw it in the dishwasher. If you got one. No detergent. And give it the chance to dry it completely over night.
Didn’t had the need on my keychron for a deep rinse. The hot swapable switches are a good seal and the aluminium housing has almost no gaps. Therefore no need to disassemble, yet.
Without a proper key pulling tool (IC removal tools work as well if you’ve got one) it would be quite a struggle, even on the keychron which has hot swap sockets. A tool came with the keyboard luckily. But had a sturdier one at hand which is a bit less fiddly to handle.
I purchased a new CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15 (not the Gen2 version, but the predecessor, 109 €)
I should have done this much earlier. A couple of years ago I upgraded the CPU from Ryzen 7 3700X to a Ryzen 9 5900X and I kept the CPU cooler which was a “Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B”.
With the Scythe cooler the CPU went up to 85-87 °C when it was under stress (e.g. kernel compilation). It never bothered me because the temp was within the specs, although the high temperature also means that the CPU clocks down and becomes slower.
With the new Noctua NH-D15 the CPU stays below 78 °C even with the “mprime -t” torture test. During kernel compilation it is not getting hotter than 73 °C. CPU Idle temperature also went down from ca. 45 °C to 35 °C. Thats great.
Something old: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Something new (90’s is “yesterday” for me ) : Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Something from the sixties: The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
I bought a column fan. Quiet, permanent temperature display, timer up to 12 hours. I live on the top floor, directly under the roof. It gets a bit warmer there in summer. Cooling down during the night is an advantage
Seems like yesterday(mid 80’s-90’s), but it was half of a lifetime ago when I was in my “Hesse” era:
Ντέμιαν (Demian), Ο λύκος της στέππας (Der Steppenwolf), Ταξίδι στην Ανατολή (The Journey to the East), Σιντάρτα ( Siddhartha), Κνουλπ (Knulp), Κάτω από τον τροχό (Unterm Rad), Νάρκισσος και Χρυσόστομος (Narziß und Goldmund)…
i tried to clean my MX-Keys, but it is almost impossible to get the caps off.. They use the same plastic skeleton as on notebook keyboards. Managed to get off space key as of cat hair was stacked under it.. but feels very bad almost broke it.. better to blast with high pressure air.
) : Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
