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Keeping your tools clean is good hygiene. Additionally, whenever I start working at a new place I always clean the keyboard. It's amazing how disgusting they ca
by patorjk 8y ago
Keeping your tools clean is good hygiene. Additionally, whenever I start working at a new place I always clean the keyboard. It's amazing how disgusting they can get. For old keyboards, if you pop off the keys, you'll find they're typically full of hair, food, and other random debris. People usually think I'm a weirdo when they see me doing it, but my boss at my previous project saw how gross my keyboard was when the keys were off, and went out and got me a new keyboard (in this case it was a desktop keyboard instead of a laptop).
- mehrdadn 8y agoWhat I wonder about is, if you're not getting sick from it (and the keyboard is working), then what is the goal of getting a new keyboard due to what's under the keys of the previous one? Just the unpleasantness of knowing what's there?
- filoleg 8y agoprobably the same logic as for cleaning out dirt from under a rug, even though you normally won't see it and it won't actively be making you sick.
- mehrdadn 8y agoHaha interesting, though in that case I'd worry about ants and such, whereas here I wouldn't, but but I guess maybe others might.
- mikec3010 8y agoEventually it could attract insects or mice. I remember coming into the office early, lights were off. I felt this very gentle hair on my left hand finger tips, moved my hand, saw nothing, went back to work. Happened again and I realized it was a decent sized cockroach! Went right back under the desk and I never caught it.
- mehrdadn 8y agoHaha wow, thanks... now I'm going to freak out every time I feel gentle hair on my body!! :-)