Christmas present protection (sort of)

 I'm no shill nor freebie-reviewer, although sometimes I would not mind being one.

This is about two different keyboard protectors. 
They are generic enough that I can speak about them without giving away who they're made by, as if I knew or cared.

The Keyboard is one of those expensive ones with too many keys, not well-known enough to have its own brand of protector. You'd need "Logitech" for that.

So anyway, the generic ones lay there, one like a shower cap, the other like a car floor mat. Neither fit well.
Do they work?
Which works better?
For protection, the shower cap, especially if you have dust, but the cap makes it hard to see the keys.

Nice concept, if it were only more transparent.

The mat leaves the very top, bottom and the sides exposed. I suppose it could be taped down with masking tape, but then it would look ugly.

You could hide the mat one when guests come over.
The shower-cap one is easily removable too, I suppose.

It's a close call.
Keyboards are for typing, so the mat wins, barely. The shower cap makes it harder to type.

For the next ten minutes (or so) I will attempt to use both at once.

In a very well lit room, you can make out the keys, and the typing part is easier if you use very firm strokes.

nonsense phrases meant to use the phases.

This is very suboptimal. 

No, it does not really work well.

A desk lamp to peer through to the keys is highly recommended.

Typos are very easy on this keyboard; it's a setting I have not researched yet;

You apparently can change the responsiveness of the keys;

I just never bothered. It's more for gamers anyway worried about key combinations, not typing.

Mine must be set to super-responsive, because a flick of an adjacent key spits out a typo.

Geez, how cool is this: https://launcher.keychron.com/#/magnet

If I promised not to proof read, could I test this in the relative dark?
This keyboard gets panned a lot for back-lit keys that aren't all that back lit.

Darkness comes:

Ok, this is by the light of the keyboard and my currently bright screen. I'm staring intently aT THE KEYBOARD, NOT BEING A TOUCH TYPIUST, BUT i'M MISSING MY STRAY KEYBOARD FLICKS, IF THERE ARE ANY.

O shit...

The caps-lock key is immensely easy to flick and barely has its own little indicator light (It should be brighter) And this sentence has tons of corrected typos.
O well.

Wut??!!

My very bright almost white lighted keyboard with the not-lit keys now has a red indicator you cannot really see unless you're *staring* at it from just the exact right angle....

I would be grousing here about the arcane key combos but that fantastic website they have set up is so cool, I don't care.

My adjacent typos still come through, though.

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I figured I'd buy a phone-glass protector.
I had one on my Pixel 7, and was miserable generally with the fingerprint reader.

I never got it to work right, and I'm a very low-usage phone guy.

But the glass is pristine!

ummm, so if I had a new phone, should I get one?
"Amazon" says "no."

I trust most amazon users, maybe more than I should.
I have a brand sitting in front of me. Should I use it?

Amazon says "no."

uh, but then what the hell did I buy it for?

If you drop a dish and break it, would you blame the dish?
I *think* *maybe* I should just be careful not to drop the phone and then run over it with my wheelchair.
It's sort of a waking nightmare I have.