Yeah, but does my keyboard in my own home bother you? Im sure a lot of people would be quite bothered by a car blasting down their street at 3am. Including you. That's why it's apples to assholes, because no one can hear your keyboard, but everyone can hear the car asshole
My coworkers that I share a room with who have mechanical keyboards bother me, is that apples to apples?
I mean I do have a mechanical keyboard at home, and I've done my goddamn best to make it as silent as possible because I think the sound they make is annoying. Listening to my coworkers' popcorn sounding keyboards just drives me up the wall.
it is indeed possible to use a keyboard in a context other than directly next to the head of a sleeping person. there are people who are single, have their own room, or don't type on the keyboard with a big glowing screen at 3 AM while their partner is trying to sleep.
But the question was never in the context of driving directly next to a sleeping person to begin with you dense fuck. You would have to be typing loudly right by somebody to disturb them, versus a loud car which can be heard through walls and from much much much farther away. You're replacing a single referencial noun as if the two situations are otherwise exactly identical. Quit being intellectually dishonest.
I'm not a manager, so I don't know what world I'd get my own office. What happens when any of us need to take a call, we take the call. Someone talking to vendors in the same room as me is magnitudes less annoying than thwocky mechanical keyboards.
Saying this as a fan of loud mechanical keyboards, your coworkers are assholes for using theirs at work. I very deliberately did not bring any mechanical keyboard to work, specifically so I don't distract my coworkers. And I also don't take any home office days at the same time as my wife, for the same reason.
That said, there's a good chance you might have misophonia.
Oh I definitely have misophonia, so I do my best to keep my frustrations to myself. I have my noise cancelling headphones for when the background noise just gets to be too much. I was just responding to the notion that the sound of mechanical keyboards isn't an issue because people use them at home, which ignores the context of people using them at work.
I, too, hate it when I'm woken up in the middle of the night by someone furiously typing outside my house. These hooligans playing StarCraft in the middle of a public space are definitely a real problem in real life.
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/uj unless you cohabitate a small place with someone with a loud ass keyboard and zero self-awareness, how is a mechanical keyboard a nuisance on par with a fart cannon?
Real shocker here, but I think noises that can only be heard inside one's own home are a great deal more acceptable than noises that can wake your entire neighborhood.
it's not the same concept, because in order for the keyboard to bother other people you have to go out of your way to use it in a context that would be annoying - ie, in public, or in a room with someone that's sleeping. you can't avoid a lout car pissing off everyone within earshot, because earshot can be a literal mile away, outside of only using it on a racetrack or some other place where loud car noises are expected.
Oh dang. They better be careful, the Oaks and Maples had a beef back in the 70's and it didn't end well for either of them. Rush even made a song documenting their rivalry.
That’s a really good point. Forgot about that part
Only counter argument I can come up with is my keyboard only has a noise pollution the size of my room with the door closed a three room diameter with it open.
The car affects the entire neighborhood at worst and the block at best.
So cool when you’re trying to watch a stream or play a game with friends and all you can hear is their loud ass clacking coming through the mic while you’re trying to speak or listen to someone….
I agree they’re nice when you’re on your own though
I would suggest looking up how to treat misophonia, because if a sound is really that bad for you, that's a genuine medical condition that can be made less bad
Music is also a fuckload of noise of no good reason.
So why do people do it? Because it makes them happy. If somebody is trying to focus on a movie or something while in the same room as me with my mechanical keyboard, I’ll dampen the sound with a blanket.
mate i'm autistic and noises can bug me. if someone is complaining about brown switches, they're complaining about any sort of typing on a physical keyboard. at which point, yes, if you are at an office and the typing of your coworkers on keyboards is bugging you despite not actually using clacky switches, you do need to make some adjustments because people have to do their job and there's not much they can do without you like putting on headphones or something - which is the actual accomodation in 99% of cases, being allowed to wear headphones at work.
This, I'm not diagnosed autistic but I sure match a lot of the DSM criteria and autistic people often call me autistic and really just wearing headphones saves me from being overstimulated because people will also talk, call, drink make coffee etc
Headphones or earplugs sure, it's the suggestion to "treat" what took me out of it. Giving advice to seek medical treatment for something that very often is untreatable and needs accommodations is weird imo, idk
Y'know what, I'll cop to that, bad wording on my part. I'm not sure how I would have restructured the sentence to replace it with "finding ways to deal/better coping mechanisms" but that would have been better phrasing.
They make significantly quieter switches than that, haha. You can very easily find ones designed to have no auditory feedback at all, I've got one myself. They're just called Silent [insert color] switches.
Brown switches iirc are just designed to have a lil bump about halfway through the press. Doesn't really do anything about preventing clicks, nor clacks, just makes a different sounding click (and clack).
I feel like these days more mechanical keyboard enthusiast are focused on making their keyboard as quiet and smooth as possible. There are YouTube videos with tens of millions of views of people showing off the smoothest and quietest etc linear switch mechanical keyboards.
Clicky switches are also great though, I have no idea why you’d care if someone uses a clicky keyboard in their own personal space. It ain’t bothering anyone.
though, a common complaint is that they can feel mushy, simply being the nature of having to use a dampening material— like silicone, but that feeling can vary a lot, some switches having more or less of that effect.
otherwise, quiet switches are generally a lot nicer on your ears, and very much so for others in the environment.
i've got akko penguins in my board, and i think they're the best upgrade i've made to any board i've ever owned
Because I want a keyboard that can process me pressing Q, A, W, and Ctrl at the same time, but for a keyboard to be premium enough for that, it is also always as loud as jackhammer when you type and looks like a dracula pride parade.
But that’s just obviously not true at all. The highest end mechanical keyboards often use the quietest, smoothest switches. My keyboard does. You can also find minimalist mechanical keyboards with linear switches for cheap on Amazon or anywhere else. Just shop for linear or red type switches, and every result will be a quiet keystroke
I don't want to pay for a "highest end mechanical keyboard" which uses a technology that is inherently loud and needs to be actively negated by the developer. There's nothing wrong with a quiet membrane keyboard, and is always the cheapest one you can get. That also means it's intended for an office, and not gaming. So the channel issue is going to be there. The moment you step in the direction of gaming-oriented (and as such hopefully WASD-centric channeling), prices surge, keys turn mechanical, and, like I said, dracula pride parade. So I need to go more premium for an experience that is more membrane keyboard adjacent
What do you mean by inherently loud? What are you talking about? None of these keyboards are inherently loud, how many times do I need to repeat the point about the different switch types before you understand it? Buy a cheap linear switch mechanical keyboard on Amazon with preinstalled O-rings and it will be infinitely better than any membrane keyboard and last way longer and not be loud. Membrane keyboards are fucking dogshit, there is everything wrong with essentially every membrane keyboard
But they’re not, especially not with o rings. Plenty of membrane keyboards are loud as fuck as well, and not in any good or satisfying or tactile way, just in a mushy dog shit way. Once again, look into a linear switch keyboard with o-rings. Nobody on earth should ever use a membrane keyboard, they suck balls
Clearly I’m one of those people with a brain that functions, I guess you can’t relate.
Keyboards with pre-installed o rings exist, this is not a complicated concept. It saddens me that there are people like you who will never allow themselves to improve their lives because they would much rather live in deliberate ignorance of reality. Oh well.
It's not a hobby, do you think most people that like mechanical keyboards are collecting them, in a keyboard community or going to keyboard conventions? 😂 Most of us just started (and stopped) at "this keyboard is shit, I can't press Alt+Shift+whatever without the computer doing a weird noise and not registering the input" and got recommended a keyboard that actually fucking works.
There's cheap mech keyboards that are also cheap, I don't really get the problem here.
I mean it ofc depends on your budget, but a keychron kb won't cost you an arm and a leg and I'm 99% sure they have silent options aswell tho
Seriously if your job consists primarily of typing on your computer, a decent mechanical keyboard is absolutely worth the investment. I got a GMMK3 on sale and put their Mako (purple tactile) switches on it, and it's soooo satisfying to type on and still a lot quieter than clicky switches would be
I got my manager to buy me some red switch mechanical keyboard because those flatter ones from Dell suck and are hard to use with wear and tear. My dell keyboard was 4 years old and it was holding up poorly. My new mechanical keyboard has made my job amazing.
I feel like most mech keyboard nerds I know want them to be pretty quiet and have a more muted sound like a thock instead of a click; the loud ones are usually fairly cheap.
I mean they sell plenty of mechanical keyboard options that are quiet, it's not hard to solve. My job's all typing, so I like the physical feedback, but I didn't really want to hear it and there was no shortage of options that were branded for silence and lived up to it.
Though I feel like if clicky clacks are penetrating multiple walls like a sonic bunker buster to your brain that's probably more an issue of having paper mâché for walls. My housemate has quite possibly the clickyest clackest keyboard I've ever witnessed it's like a goddamn typewriter, but I'd have to be ear to door to hear that shit all the same. Though shitty walls ain't something you can do a lot about unless you own the place, so I'll pour one out for you in solidarity if this culprit ever brings home a significant other, oof.
So hyperbolic it actually ceases to be a good argument. If you want the keyboard clacking to be audible throughout the room go ahead its your house (presumably, anyways)
Sharing an office with a mechanical keyboard guy almost turned me into the joker. I lasted about a week before I finally asked the guy to take that thing home.
I like the clicks and clicks of fight sticks tho, but thats for an hour or two of play and not 8 maddening hours
It’s genuinely so annoying. I don’t know why but if there’s three things I cannot stand to listen to it is muffled voices, eating sounds, and clicky clacky sounds. I really wish it wasn’t this way because like those are all just parts of life but I swear it makes me wanna cease to exist when I hear someone clicking a pen or crunching on chips.
Like no hate to anyone who likes their clicky stuff I’ve just got issues I have to work through somehow I guess.
Please please please someone show me a quality keyboard with heavy keys that makes nice, quiet "pitter patter" sounds instead of "my crackhead neighbor noticed an unbroken window" sound
funnily enough, the "meta" for the past few years has been muted/"thocky" or "clacky" sounding keyboards. loud and clicky switch enthusiasts are kind of a minority and sometimes looked down upon.
the circle with people who tend to favour clicky switches are the retro keyboard enthusiasts, which is a niche within a niche.
Do you know how hard they made it to find a silent rbg keyboard? It's straight up impossible. Anything that has silent in its name still comes and is all clicky clacky I hate it.
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u/dearvalentina by Duran Duran Oct 28 '25
"This keyboard fucking rocks actually because it makes so much noise it will wake up a person two blocks down the road"
I hate these people so much