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vinyl·Vinyl and LPs - Analogue Music Goodnessbycatlover

New place, new music corner

Very minimal, could say cheap setup, at a relatively poor place of the room. Still, at least its online, and ready to be improved. Unfortunatelly there is no clear plan on where to place the speakers other than between the corner and cabinet, but will see.

BMTH is my SO-s only vinyl that got gifted by me, which my SO prefers to be displayed. Behind it and Untrue is a tiny collection of my personal favourites like Digital Mystikz, Foamplate, and some classics like Autechre.

Ideas and solutions to improve are welcome. Thanks!

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cooking·Cooking bycatlover

Cast iron mini pizza

Mini pizza for lunch. I usually make two of these, I just didn't include pics of the first one because I "accidentally" soaked it with mascarpone.

I use pre-made pizza sauce (which I really want to replace with a home made one, but I couldn't find a good one yet, and maybe also a bit lazy for it). After that I add ham, small sliced pepperoni like sausage, and sliced cocktail tomato. Sometimes I add sliced mushrooms too. After all this I add mascarpone, which I love, so usually I add a bit too much.

I use this small pan (20cm) because I cook for myself at home every day, and it just fits me one portion (except for pizzas, but its easy to make the second while the first one cools down). With my larger one I nearly always made too much food, but with this it just simply doesn't fit. Also I like things that are small and just as big as needed.

Thanks to this post for the recipe! If it wasn't for this post I wouldn't have found this amazing recipe. I use the one for the dough, with the rest I usually just get creative.

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cat·catsbycatlover

Our cat has a major possibility of having diffuse iris melanoma, and will have a surgery

It started with smaller dots and black areas in her eye ~2 years ago:

Since then we took her to the doctor many times to make sure she is okay. He told us that its all right, simply she has more pigments in here eyes, and its okay as long as there are no fluids.

Over time a lot of black areas started appearing in her eyes, and I started nagging the doctor. He still said that its just pigments, but if we wanted to be sure, we should take her to a detailed eye examination.

When we noticed that her pupils got deformed, and didn't respond to light like her healthy one we immediatelly took her to an eye examination, and they told us she has a high possibility for diffuse iris melanoma, which can spread to parts of her belly and lungs. They also told us, there is a chance that there is nothing wrong, but there is no way to make sure. They can try to get some fluids from her eye, but that doesn't give an accurate representation.

We decided to have her eye removed, because we think its better to have 0 chance for diffuse iris melanoma and it spreading than anything more than 0. Especially in this case where its very likely. As far as I understood even if we knew this sooner there weren't anything we could do.

This was a very hard decision for us, having such a radical surgery on our first cat feels depressing, and the chance that we do this for nothing makes things even harder. We saw on the internet that one eyed cats gets used to the new situation quickly, but that doesn't fully reassure us.

I'd like to ask you to share your experience with cats you know that had diffuse iris melanoma, or one eyed kittens. We would like to make sure she feels loved and can live a full life after this. Thanks in advance! Make sure you check your cats health regularly.

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mechanicalkeyboards·Mechanical Keyboardsbycatlover

Keyboard upgrade and related experiences

Hi everyone! I'd like to share the successor of my old keyboards.

My mechanical keyboard journey began by getting a CMStrom Quickfire TK for one of my birthdays. It has brown switches, which I liked very much. However I didn't really try any other switches, I simply decided by online sources, that how a brown switch should feel, and I thought I need that force feedback when pressing a key. It turned out great, I loved it. I'm not even sure how many years I used it for, but its very possible that its close to 10 years. I had absolutely no issues with it, but since the hungarian key layout it an ISO layout I had some issues with the ANSI layout.

After a while I decided its time for an upgrade, and one of my friends suggested Keychron. I decided on the Keychron K2, which was a really good upgrade in my experience. I immediately knew that the 75% layout was for me. Again brown keys, now ISO layout with a pleasant surprise that Keychron manufactured HU keycaps. This keyboard wasn't used for that many years, only like 2-3. At one point the 'q' key broke, and started chattering, I guess that because it was a key I used a lot, and the K2 not being a very high end keyboard. Still was strange, because my CMStorm lasted 10 years, and still works perfectly. The K2 has hot swappable switches, I solved this by changing it to something that I rarely use.

While looking for replacement switches, I encountered a keyboard on the Keychron site, that caught my attention multiple times in the past, but I didn't want to buy a new keyboard till the old one was working. However the old one had this issue I mentioned, so I could technically consider it "broken", and also my birthday was coming, so I decided to order a Q1 Max.

Of course I ordered it with brown keys again, since I wasn't sure how I could try new ones for free. I'm not a keyboard tinkerer, I ordered the Q1 Max pre-built. When it arrived I immediately felt that it was a huge upgrade compared to the K2. The keys feel nice, the keycaps are awesome. Not that the keycaps mattered, because I replaced them with a custom printed one from yuzukeycaps. The checkerboard patter is something I found on team liquid forums related to Star Craft topics many years ago, and I liked how unique and cool they looked. If you search for "tl forum checkerboard keyboard" you can find images of them:

However after a few days of using it I realized something was wrong, and noticed that many keys type double. This made me very concerned, and after checking online about this issue I found a ton of reddit threads about this exact same issue, and that Keychron keyboards became unreliable over time. At this point I deeply regret ordering a Keychron, and trusting on the brand after my K2 experience. Every time I tried searching for solution I found even more user experiences with faulty keyboards that broke in the first weeks of using them.

I contacted support. Of course the days that I can get a refund has passed. They said to upgrade the firmware of my keyboard, which I did from 1.0 to 1.1, which introduced debounce timers. Fortunately 30ms debounce seems to have fixed this issue, but I'm still deeply concerned that something will break in the near future, especially after reading feedback of Keychron keyboards on reddit. When I decided on this high-end keyboard I was planning that I will use this till it truly breaks, and will last way more times than my old CMStorm. The Q1 Max still has to earn my trust, and I still need to give it a soul by using it for years. Has a lot to prove till I respect it like my CMStorm.

If you got this far, I'm curious about your experience about Keychron keyboards, especially if you have a Q1 Max. Or anything related to the post. I feel like this debounce is there to hide some manufacturing issues, despite reading something about this that its not a quality issue, but a switch characteristics.

Have a nice day!

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castiron·Cast Ironbycatlover

Sticky spots on pan

Hi! I'm an amateur and must have used my pan incorrectly, and would like to ask some directions to fix my specific case.

Once after cooking with it I washed it with hot water, dried it, and put it on the oven to make sure its completely dry. I added some oil too. Unfortunatelly I forgot about it, and came back when it was already smoking, and having that huge spot on the right side of the image. The pan wasn't completely on a flat surface, so most of the oil flowed on the right side. Also a lump of oil(?) formed at the bottom of the spot, which I could remove with hot water, and non-metal scrubber.

I tried searching online for a solution, but I'm not 100% sure what this exact case is, and which solution to try.

How could I fix my pan? Thans in advance!

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cat·catsbycatlover

When is it a good idea to get a second cat?

I have a nearly 4 year old neutered female cat. I have been thinking about adopting another cat, but I fear they won't get along. Current cat is not really social, rarely likes being touched, instead requires attention: playtime, being near (but far enough), etc.

What are your experiences with second cats? Are there age / gender combinations which are the safest?

Edit: thanks for all the replies! Forgot to mention that she is an indoor cat.

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balconygardening·Balcony Gardeningbycatlover

Need some help what could be the problem with my morning-glory (ipomoea)

My mornong glory's leaves on my balcony has some problems. I'm not sure what could be the issue, some other plants show similar symthoms (celery's leaves for example)

Can I ask for help from someone more experienced? I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I live in central EU, my balcony can get really hot, like 30-35 celsius. It gets direct sunlight from around 1-2 afternoon to 6-7. I water my plants daily, because of the heat, the soil dires quickly

Backside of the leaves:

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balconygardening·Balcony Gardeningbycatlover

What are these guys doing?

Noticed that some bees climb in at the bottom of my planters and dig themselves in. They go in and out multiple times a day, sometimes seem to carry some cut leaves. It seems like its the same bee, never seen more than one at the same spot, but multiple planters have these bees and holes.

What are they doing? Could they mean harm to my plants? Should I worry about my cat trying to catch them, and they stinging?

I also change the soil and the plant every year. Will I ruin their homes this way?

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neovim·Neovimbycatlover

Looking for an airline replacement

Hi! I recently decided to switch from airline, but can't find a status / tab line plugin that works just like I want it to. Lualine is the closest I could get, but the following features from tabline is really missing from me.

I couldn't get the buffer component to only show those buffers that are open on the current tab, and in the visual order that my splits are. Also I can't get it to hide hidden buffers, after opening and closing a few terminals it gets polluted with a tons of unnecessary tabs

The closest I could get is with "tiagovla/scope.nvim", but that does not make it respect the order of my splits, messes with sessions and doesn't solve the problem with the hidden buffers

Is there a tabline extension that is simple and fast, and can do what I described? Thanks in advance

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linux_gaming·Linux Gamingbycatlover

Looks like you can't even download the Battle.net client for Linux now

The button is faded out for me: https://download.battle.net/en-us/desktop

But as soon as I change my user agent suddenly it works 🤔 However starting it with wine gives an error that it can't connect to the server. No more blizzard games I guess


With a previously installed client I was able to buy and download Diablo II: Ressurected, but after starting it it immediately stated that my setup was to outdated to run this game. I highly doubt that, since I have more than the minimum requirements.

I found out that you have to fool the game to make it start: https://forums.lutris.net/t/solved-diablo-ii-resurrected-fails-to-start-with-failed-to-initialize-graphics-device-error/13878/3

Problem was with ingame GPU and driver version detection

The lutris battle.net installer however did not work, and I didn't have the mood to debug it.

Not so surprising, but they don't support linux: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/failed-to-initialize-graphics-device/5896/67

Note: Linux, bootcamp, or running the game in a virtual OS is not supported

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dota2·Dota 2bycatlover

Ranked: Role queue or Classic?

I have been wondering which one is better to play in order to have more prepared teammates.

My theory is that with role queue you must earn games to be able to play as your role, otherwise you are forced to a position and hero which you might be unfamiliar with, and therefore not perform to your best. One game requires 10 players, so there is a high change someone is forced to a role.

However I don't think that classic is perfect either, with games where offlane is Clinkz and Litch vs Phantom Assasin and Troll Warlord :D And with fighting over roles and positions.

What do you think? I'm trying to get out of guardian, so this could be viewed from a different perspective on higher ranks. I only tried role queue but now I'm experimenting with classic.

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jerboa·Jerboabycatlover

Ability to block domains

Rif has a feature where you can filter out posts which links to a specific domain (regex like syntax).

For example you can block all posts which redirect to youtube.com or youtu.be.

Couldn't find such feature right now, but would love to see this.

I hate clicking on youtube posts, I don't watch content with sound, and it also opens the youtube android app with ads and everything.

This could be extended to a feature to filter out posts from specific instances till its not implemented in the backend.

These could be done on the frontend like after the client recieved the posts to display it filters them by domain / instance by user defined rules

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android·Androidbycatlover

Rooting android & banking apps

I always favored rooting my phone, used to have a redmi 4x with magisk and lineage os. It was time for a new phone, and got a xiaomi note 10S.

On the 4x I noticed that play store did not list revolut and other banking apps, and the bank Im using said I can't use the app on rooted phone, so I decided not to root my 10S.

However I still think about unlocking and rooting it, but I'm afraid of my banking apps no longer working.

I still would like to use my phone like I did before: NFC payments (google pay), banking apps, play store for said apps, google maps.

Is it possible to create a setup like this? Should I even try?

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