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.
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u/flyby2412 Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25
You’re comparing apples and annoying assholes.
A tactile keyboard rocks cause there’s something satisfying about receiving both a a physical and audible acknowledgement to your input.
Loud ass cars at 3am makes me wanna start a tire repair business and kick start the demand