I’ll probably solder it back on in the weekend, or ask a phone repair shop to do it if I’m feeling extra lazy, it’s okay.

Maybe I should have known knocking it this way for years without making sure the cable isn’t wrenching the port at an angle would have some consequences. I have a backup, it’s fine. Not a great start to the workday, but whatever.

I built it myself a few years back out of Aliexpress parts and couldn’t be happier with it.

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I’m posting this here instead of a dedicated keyboard com because this is about the inconvenience, not the hardware. I’m also wary of how consumeristic hardware discussions can be, especially purchasing-driven “hobbies” like keyboards. I don’t want to post my keyboard. I don’t want to discuss builds. I don’t want to help goad more people into buying things they don’t need.

It’s a little heartbreaking how keyboard discussions went from DIY-focused folks, who really went out of their way to salvage the various cool vintage solutions that different manufacturers used for the simple mechanical problem of making a nice button to press, to… what it is now. I do like that more artists are designing keycap sets, making cool designs that people interact with every day, but yeesh. The buying culture.

Hotly awaited update: It turns out those tiny pads were ripped out, will have to go to the repair shop regardless. Fingers crossed. If it’s not repairable, I could just order a replacement PCB. Not ideal but oh well

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 days ago

    My keyboard has a useless key to turn LED backlight on/off, in place of the ⌘ key.

    So I’ve disconnected two lanes on the PCB by burning a hole in it with a soldering iron, and added two extra wires, and now it sends an actual keycode instead of controlling backlight. Also two keypad buttons stopped working, and I’m too lazy to fix them because I’m not using them.

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      4·
      13 days ago

      I’m really only worried about the size of the contacts. It’s a USB C port with 12 pins (so no need for reflow shenanigans). I’ve soldered worse, but lower stakes jobs, I just don’t have the best tools around me right now.

      Your mod sounds like a headache, but good that you figured it out. If there’s one good thing about the explosion in keyboard and keyboard marketing it’s that the open source programmable firmware has gotten much better, so that kind of thing would be less of an issue.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    I have a Corsair Vengeance K90 keyboard from 2011. Can confirm dishwasher safe. It’s been in there a lot.

    Maybe I should have known knocking it this way for years without making sure the cable isn’t wrenching the port

    Like it was still plugged in 😅?

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      5·
      13 days ago

      I’m not swinging it in a high arc and banging the face of it full-force on the table, just rotating it to face towards me and knocking its “chin” against the table, tapping it with a little bit of force.

      Maybe the cable didn’t have as much slack as I thought.

    • riot@fedia.io
      5·
      12 days ago

      You just made me fall into a rabbit hole on YouTube of people cleaning their keyboards with dishwashers. That is absolutely wild to me, and I never would’ve thought of doing that. I have a K70, but I don’t think I dare use a dishwasher to clean it, hahaha.