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		SmellyGeekBoy on Aug 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling p... A high-end keyboard failing after 5 years is "not a bad track record" ? I have 40-year-old keyboards at home that still work great - one or two are even the awful membrane type.

donaltroddyn on Aug 8, 2018 | [–]

That could easily be survivorship bias, though. How many of those 40-year-old contemporaries died decades ago?

wodenokoto on Aug 8, 2018 | [–]

There are still two left in parents inventory that can survive til 40!

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