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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (12 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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why are you going right so much more than left

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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