[sponnath]

There's honestly not much you can do to prevent the "oily cubes" problem, especially if you keep the laptop docked often. You'll just have to clean the screen more often.

I've seen some people place a keyboard-sized microfibre cloth in between the keyboard and display but I'm not sure how well that actually works in practice. It might cause other issues.

[swiftcoder]

> I've seen some people place a keyboard-sized microfibre cloth in between the keyboard and display but I'm not sure how well that actually works in practice. It might cause other issues.

The tolerance is tight enough here that folks used to damage their displays this way. You need an extremely thin layer here if you are going to do this.

[sponnath]

Absolutely. I honestly wouldn't ever recommend doing this. Imo, you should just spent a little extra time cleaning your display over taking dubious preventative measures.

[dijit]

Boo! Hiss!

… (Thanks for the advice.)

[pndy]

Looks like you're in a dire need for an official Apple Polishing Cloth with... list of compatible devices to maintain your sanity levels /s

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw693am/a/polishing-cloth

Being serious, I'm always wearing nitrile gloves if whatever I have to clean is dirty - plus it's also a protection against detergents. A spare Samsung phone I've got mid-pandemic I had to purify with isopropyl because young guy who was selling it clearly didn't care much about all the gunk.