[throwanem]

Put spacers on your keys. They're cheap, and in addition to muting most of the bottom-out thud, they eat up a lot of the force and spare your knuckles, too.

To install them, find the cheapest kind of ballpoint and pull out the tip and ink tube. The body tube is just the right size to press the spacers onto the key stems. It's miles easier than anything else I've ever tried.

Before spacers, the helpdesk complained about my keyboard noise. The helpdesk! After, no one did.