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by xeromal 2294 days ago
People with mechanical keyboards in conference calls can jump in a lake. haha
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I do this and honestly, it's not that bad if you don't have the mic near the keyboard. The headset mic I have seems to drop audio dramatically just a few inches away from my mouth, which is a feature, not a bug, if you're using a mechanical keyboard.
Using the internal keyboard AND internal microphone of a laptop is usually worse.
At home I have a cheap keyboard to swap to -)

The real problem is cheap headsets with poor mics and people not knowing how to turn the fracking gain down.

Though at home id just swap out my laptop and stick my works one in and plugin my Claret Pre 2 for the mic and the Shitt Audio stack I use for heaphones.

Just do the conference in a text group chat. I can type fast on that mechanical keyboard, you know :)