https://catwithcode.moe/ Blog for random computer stuff from my daily life. Girl from Germany. Work as a Software Developer. Programming, Linux, Hacking, Modding and tinkering. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.03.05_Ubuntu_Touch_FP5_Season2/Ubuntu_Touch_FP5_Season2.html This is """Season 2""" of me trying Ubuntu Touch. They made huge progress the last year and now have a fully stable release for the Fairphone 5 and I can confirm it is rock solid! So... I tried it again LOL. This is like an Update on what I had to change for my setup and how it is now compared to last time. The older entry about this are actually relatively outdated since they switched to 24.04 and snap and stuff are now forced on the user in libertine by Canonical (Not Ubuntu Touch Team). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.03.05_Ubuntu_Touch_FP5_Season2/Ubuntu_Touch_FP5_Season2.html Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:59:04 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.01.28_Clicks_Keyboard_for_Fairphone5/Clicks_Keyboard_for_Fairphone5.html Yes... yes it is that time again. 👏 Keyboard 👏 Phone 👏 ! 👏 Why 👏 don't 👏 I 👏 just 👏 give 👏 up 👏 on 👏 Blackberry 👏 Phones 👏 ???. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.01.28_Clicks_Keyboard_for_Fairphone5/Clicks_Keyboard_for_Fairphone5.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:23:07 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.01.16_FP5_PostmarkedOS/FP5_PostmarkedOS.html This is my third try with Linux on a phone, but I know this time will be better, buggier and more fun then last time. In the past I daily-drove Ubuntu Touch and came to dislike it somewhat. Don't get me wrong, I like, no love, the project BUT it's use of Halium as a stop-gap solution to get Linux running without all drivers ported makes it hard to use for me. Why? It makes it so, that, to some extend, you can not use normal Desktops and to some extend Apps. This can probably be overcome overtime, they did somewhat with (soon (TM) Wayland) Libertine and Snap. But to it is also NOT the project goal, the goal is a "User Friendly" OS like Android and not jank. This makes it so the keyboard is not usable without engaging the pipeline that only Libertine and Store apps can use/trigger by design. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2026.01.16_FP5_PostmarkedOS/FP5_PostmarkedOS.html Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:41:51 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.28_Drakengard/Drakengard.html I played Drakengard after so many years and wow... it diffidently was something. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.28_Drakengard/Drakengard.html Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:43:14 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.27_Switch_UbuntuServer_to_Proxmox/Switch_UbuntuServer_to_Proxmox.html In the past I wrote about how I setup my home-server but it became near unmaintainable. I had multiple issues with raid assembling wrong and nearly breaking all my large data and many configuration had issues. Most of this (more like everything) is 100% my fault but I don't have time all day fixing my home-server every other day. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.27_Switch_UbuntuServer_to_Proxmox/Switch_UbuntuServer_to_Proxmox.html Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:24:22 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.14_Map_Wheel_To_Gamepad_Linux/Map_Wheel_To_Gamepad_Linux.html It is that time of the year again. No burnout inducing game-dev for two weeks and true vacation days for once. I wanted to play "Easy Delivery Co". and noticed how cool it would be to use my Steering wheel with the game. Long story short: I made my steering wheel work on Linux with ANY game by mapping it to a X-Input gamepad. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.12.14_Map_Wheel_To_Gamepad_Linux/Map_Wheel_To_Gamepad_Linux.html Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:36:08 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.11.14_Instrument_Recording_Linux/Instrument_Recording_Linux.html Should be easy and clear but that topic is so obscure and search engines so flooded with BS it is hard to find what to do. I wanted to document how I connected everything and what to use. I use an E-Bass but this works the same with all instruments that are E-Guitars. Midi devices like keyboards can be connected directly to a Midi to USB device (Or like many modern keyboards are Midi to USB internally already) and piped into the software using it (Just make sure your keyboard or whatever is just Midi on the USB end and not some proprietary BS), but for Analog E-Guitars it is a little more involved. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.11.14_Instrument_Recording_Linux/Instrument_Recording_Linux.html Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:40:35 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.10.13_Design_Made_even_Worst/Design_Made_even_Worst.html I added Oneko like many other tech blog and project pages to my website :D. I did adjust OnekoJS a good amount to fit my workflow and be more readable for me. After that I adjusted A LOT of stuff on how the dynamic elements on my website work so they don't break in edge cases like google translate pages or in the Internet Archive. I little time ago I also adjusted the DNS redirect for the GitHub pages version for search engines so it also not cause issues in Mirrors or Archives but added detection and notice if it is viewed that way. The redirect is now domain specific. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.10.13_Design_Made_even_Worst/Design_Made_even_Worst.html Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:35:06 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.10.12_Restaurant_Sa_Quadra/Restaurant_Sa_Quadra.html Okay, listen, hear me out, I know I normally do only tech stuff but I was on a little vacation with my husband and we found this restaurant somewhat near our hotel. It was so UNBELIEVABLY good I just MUST write about it to quiet done the gobline in my brain. That way I will at least never fully forget it. They only have a small google maps entry and a facebook page and that is it, no online presents. So if you want to read something different then the usual from me, I will now write for like 4 minutes about how good the food was there and be sad because the restaurant is on an island and unreachable for me from now on. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.10.12_Restaurant_Sa_Quadra/Restaurant_Sa_Quadra.html Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:21:58 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.09.26_Dont_Use_Joilt_Extention_Version/Dont_Use_Joilt_Extention_Version.html In short: I used Jolt (The extension version) in my Project for a while now and on some hardware it causes extreme performance issues (to be precise on "i7 4790 and GTX 1060" and on SteamDeck). You just lose a hole lot of FPS for no reason and the Profile is completely confused where it goes and blames random scripts. It is worth working around the very few limitations the build in version still has, if any anymore. This took me longer then it should and I want to scream. I am still not sure if this is a bug, I think it is just no longer as maintained for 4.5 and newer because it is build in now. So, UPDATE YOUR PROJECT SETUP AND THANK ME LATER :) https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.09.26_Dont_Use_Joilt_Extention_Version/Dont_Use_Joilt_Extention_Version.html Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:04:20 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.08.22_SIP_Phone_Client_Linux/SIP_Phone_Client_Linux.html Weird title I know. But nearly every client I tried sucked in its own unique way. After a lot of trying around I found that gnome-calls with gnome-contacts works the best. But I use KDE, so getting it to work was a little annoying but doable. And no, there is no KDE alternative that is not unmaintained or no proprietary. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.08.22_SIP_Phone_Client_Linux/SIP_Phone_Client_Linux.html Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:47:57 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.07.31_New_Addon_To_Design/New_Addon_To_Design.html After a long hard week, both with work and game-dev, I deiced I want to do something stupid. Something really really stupid. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.07.31_New_Addon_To_Design/New_Addon_To_Design.html Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:03:39 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.07.22_Blockbench_Culling/Blockbench_Bulling.html Blockbench if you export to .gltf inserts "doubleSided":true into it. This causes in Godot and other Engines that do not suport import material overwrites culling to be disabled. This causes textures to be rendered inside the model too. This is a huge performance killer and VRAM eater. By setting this to false the model is one-sided. This needs to be taken into account when creating a model or fixed by comparing the render with the model software and rotate or split the meshes that a wrongly rotated. Can be time consuming but worth the performance boost! Overdraw is heavy on the GPU. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.07.22_Blockbench_Culling/Blockbench_Bulling.html Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:27:20 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.06.30_Linux_Phone_My_Experience/Linux_Phone_My_Experience.html I tested Ubuntu Touch again. It works great now. Everything is working but I notices something for myself. FOR ME, it works, but is not viable. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.06.30_Linux_Phone_My_Experience/Linux_Phone_My_Experience.html Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:07 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.06.14_Philips_OLED_49/Philips_OLED_49.html I bought an Ultrawide (And I mean ULTRA) monitor and also used the opportunity to jump on the PC monitor OLED train. In the past I used a janky Gamescope setup and stretch my image over all screen, but now I have a screen that just dose a stupidly ultra wide image from factory. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.06.14_Philips_OLED_49/Philips_OLED_49.html Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:07 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.29_Design_Made_Worst/Design_Made_Worst.html I added more effects to the website. I called this entry “Design made worst” because everyone I asked says it makes the design worst. I will probably fix a few things and will maybe also add a few things. This page will updated for it to keep the “final” new design preserved as all the old ones were too (I linked to them in the Sources). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.29_Design_Made_Worst/Design_Made_Worst.html Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:07 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.14_TUF_GAMING_B450-PLUS_II_NVMe_BUG/TUF_GAMING_B450-PLUS_II_NVMe_BUG.html My husband's PC has this board (BIOS: 4631 - 292156861A336E1F25B66934958F9770F263366C09687F03450F12D99943516D - 2025/04/01), and on Linux it causes heavy and I mean HEAVY stutters and freezes. It has something to do with NVMe and power-saving mode. I fixed it with the following grub boot parameters found on the Arch Wiki. If that affects something we did not try or check IDK.: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.14_TUF_GAMING_B450-PLUS_II_NVMe_BUG/TUF_GAMING_B450-PLUS_II_NVMe_BUG.html Wed, 14 May 2025 17:29:21 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.13_3DS_No_Battery_Mod/3DS_No_Battery_Mod.html My husband and I needed decorations for our new surround sound setup. We added a shelf to our living room and that now needs decorations and, as young adults nowadays are, we don't own and/or want generic seasonal bulls*it decorations. So we got random gaming crap from our childhood's from the basement and put it in there. While doing this I discovered literally all battery's of any Nintendo console was bloated. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.13_3DS_No_Battery_Mod/3DS_No_Battery_Mod.html Wed, 14 May 2025 07:19:34 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.08_Ewaste_Surround/Ewaste_Surround.html I know I am pumping so many entry's out at the moment that it is not funny anymore. To be honest, most of the last entry's happened over time and the projects just start to close up relatively closely to each other. Today I have followed an advice I read online way to often. Building a "sick" surround sound setup from used parts. Some people call that stuff E-Waste. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.05.08_Ewaste_Surround/Ewaste_Surround.html Mon, 12 May 2025 20:19:42 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.25_iMac_2013_in_2025/iMac_2013_in_2025.html The iMac project (If you want to know the NVIDIA part scroll down to "Installing Linux and using modern Proton"). This was one hell of a ride. I will tell the story how I got it, why it is special, the painful process of upgrading it and how to run MODERN proton versions with the old Nvidia 470 Driver (and a rant on, what in my opinion is, plant obsolescence). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.25_iMac_2013_in_2025/iMac_2013_in_2025.html Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:03:13 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.21_QFlashPlus_Fix/QFlashPlus_Fix.html Yes I mean it. Independent BIOS flash is a great idea but as usual the manufactures f*ck it up all the time. Q-Flash Plus on Gigabyte motherboards works. !BUT! it is very VEEERRRYY sensitive to the environment (USB2.0 or USB3.0, FAT or FAT32 and so on). I torture myself to find the right config and found a Reddit Post with one answer that had the solution. Below is how to EXACTLY AND I MEAN E X A C T L Y do it to get it working. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.21_QFlashPlus_Fix/QFlashPlus_Fix.html Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:36:06 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.17_Linux_HDR_Ultrawide/Linux_HDR_Ultrawide.html I used Hyprland for a longer time now. I also was using tilling window managers for a few years now. But Hyprland had its issues again (most likly something I setup wrong). I reinstalled and switched to OpenSuse and tried KDE just a little and was blown away how good it now is! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.17_Linux_HDR_Ultrawide/Linux_HDR_Ultrawide.html Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:14:47 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.01_First_Of_April_I_Guess/First_Of_April_I_Guess.html To be honest IDK. why I did that. A friend challenged me and I thought it would be funny. So... I made my OC a CatGirl... Racon girl? I guess IDK. to be honest xD. This was also a challenge to myself to see how much my ability to create my ideas in 3D models improved and well, I think I am able to do it now for what it is worth. And I like my art style if you can call it that. I can not imagine any images in my head, like at all. That always made it really hard for me to draw or fully imagine if something would look good. At first I did not know what I was doing but now I can use the tools provided to me, and actually create what I want. The latest thing I did yesterday in RE//POSSESSED was to complete one of the BAR areas. And I also wanted to slip a reference to "VA-11 Hall-A" into it. And I think I did what I wanted to do. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.04.01_First_Of_April_I_Guess/First_Of_April_I_Guess.html Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:45:17 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.03.21_Sunshine_Remote_Headless_Hyprland/Sunshine_Remote_Headless_Hyprland.html To get a remote desktop session to work without crapy or crapy proprietary tools you can use Sunshine with moonlight. The only issue would be the mouse could get off screen and the displays still would suck power (and are screen would be free to see for everyone in the room). My setup based on the tutorial by "xTeixeira" uses a script that sets everything up for me. The only issue is you must close all windows before entering or exiting remote but that's it. Oh and the swayidel, lock and waybar processes have issues to work after Sunshine closes. It seems like that Sunshine can not disown the sub-scripts. This needs a hotkey/menu-enty to work around it. But that's really it with issues. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.03.21_Sunshine_Remote_Headless_Hyprland/Sunshine_Remote_Headless_Hyprland.html Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:46:48 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.25_New_Design/New_Design.html Well... we go back in time even more. Borders? YES, Font? PIXELS, Readability? Actually a little better, CSS-Code? More jank. The new design has inspiration from different directions. From Serial Experiments Lain, to my own game to Neon Genesis Evangelion and old Linux Desktops like 4Dwm themes or old OpenBox setups or very old GNOME. I think you get it. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.25_New_Design/New_Design.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.21_3CCD_Digital_SD_Camera/3CCD_Digital_SD_Camera.html I searched for some time already. In the past I was researching and found many good MiniDV cameras with the lovely 3CCD sensor. The issue is in the name, MiniDV. Very bad for modern usage. I could sadly never find a 480p 3CCD camera with SD-Cards that is not a crappy consumer camera. Until now: The JVC GY-HM100! It can do: 1080i, 720p AND 480p (In the Photo mode). This is near perfect! Native 480p in Video mode too would be perfect but this is still very good. It is a professional camera on all fronts! It is from 2009 and if you go even a little more high end you end up with MiniDV again. There are SOME SD-Card models for professionals that are actual higher end BUT they are like 2000 euro even in 2025! Even the JVC GY-HM100 is already on the expensive side of things and really rare already. The JVC GY-HM700 would peak... camera and price wise~. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.21_3CCD_Digital_SD_Camera/3CCD_Digital_SD_Camera.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.03_Building_Workbench_with_trash/Building_Workbench_with_trash.html I always used my PC table for my projects and that always sucked. For anything else I always needed to remove the current project from it to do stuff. I have, next to my PC table, a "KALLAX" shelf-thingy from IKEA. We needed furniture fast the last time we moved and it is from my study years so we kept it. I actually wanted to gift it to the next person moving in but that did not work out obviously. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.03_Building_Workbench_with_trash/Building_Workbench_with_trash.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.02_Looking_back/Looking_Back.html I have my online presents/website and this hole project now for around 3 years already... I just needed to count the time myself and wow 3 years already. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2025.01.02_Looking_back/Looking_Back.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.12.25_REPOSSESSED_Public/REPOSSESSED_Public.html I'm very happy to officially announce RE//POSSESSED (Not final name). A webpage with screenshots, social media presence and a gameplay showcase video go online at the same time this entry gets published. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.12.25_REPOSSESSED_Public/REPOSSESSED_Public.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.12.07_Ultimate_T440P/Ultimate_T440P.html Yes I know I'm literally the Thinkpad-Meme but, hey it was a lot of fun. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.12.07_Ultimate_T440P/Ultimate_T440P.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.25_Enshittification_Opinion/Enshittification_Opinion.html No one asked - Then go the f*ck of my Website. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.25_Enshittification_Opinion/Enshittification_Opinion.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.19_Digitizing-Modernizing_MiniDV_Cameras/Digitizing-Modernizing_MiniDV_Cameras.html I was (and still am) sick over the last few days. So... I had time while lying there and just existing to do some more off and on research I onto a topic I was always interested in. Professional SD 3CCD-MiniDV Cameras. I wanted / want one real bad but there is one issue... they kinda suck when it comes to Modernizing. Lets keep it short: It is near impossible except if you carry around a laptop with Thunderbolt. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.19_Digitizing-Modernizing_MiniDV_Cameras/Digitizing-Modernizing_MiniDV_Cameras.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.07_Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5/Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5.html In this entry I will document everything about using Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 5. I independently volunteer as a beta tester. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.07_Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5/Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.02_F_Search_Engines/F_Search_Engines.html They don't / have a hard time indexing/finding my website. Just because I don't follow the predatory rules that many of them (not all) enforce. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.02_F_Search_Engines/F_Search_Engines.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.28_REPOSSESSED_Progress_and_Page/REPOSSESSED_Progress_and_Page.html RE//POSSESSED has left the state of proof of concept around 3 month ago with the full commitment to it. Next to my daily work there is sadly not as much time as I would like to invest into it but I work nearly every day multiple hours on it. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.28_REPOSSESSED_Progress_and_Page/REPOSSESSED_Progress_and_Page.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.25_Simplification_Of_Website_Pipline/Simplification_Of_Website_Pipline.html I took a small break from RE//POSSESSED and modded some Wii-Stuff, see last entry, and build a script for my Website. that helps updating certain things. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.25_Simplification_Of_Website_Pipline/Simplification_Of_Website_Pipline.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.24_Wii_Remote_and_SensorBar_On_PC/Wii_Remote_and_SensorBar_On_PC.html I have modded stuff on the weekend... and one of the things was to make a Wii Sensor Bar universal aka. USB-Powered. But I did not want to invest to much money into it (meaning doing it with just an USB-Cable and solder). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.24_Wii_Remote_and_SensorBar_On_PC/Wii_Remote_and_SensorBar_On_PC.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.10_Enforce_PiHole/Enforce_PiHole.html One word before I explain: There are many ways device's try to reach there own wanted DNS-Server. TLS, directly or even through a VPN. VPN bypassing can not really be blocked except you close all VPN ports and block VPN IPs and DNS-Entry's but then VPN's will not work at all anymore. And even then they can use a external proxy for bypassing using a different port. In short: This only works for normal blocking and will work 99.999% of the time. If someone really, REALLY, and I mean REALLY try's to bypass this block they will be able to, but for normal usage this is perfect. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.10_Enforce_PiHole/Enforce_PiHole.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.09_Help_Internet_Archive/Help_Internet_Archive.html The Internet Archive needs help, donate or help raise awareness: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.09.09_Help_Internet_Archive/Help_Internet_Archive.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.08.29_Linux_File_Write_Protect/Linux_File_Write_Protect.html Not much to say about it. I wanted to protect some Files and Folders from writing and deleting even from sudo users. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.08.29_Linux_File_Write_Protect/Linux_File_Write_Protect.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.28_Linux_Flawless_Widescreen_With_GameScope_Mod_Launchers/Linux_Flawless_Widescreen_With_GameScope_Mod_Launchers.html There is actually quite a bit to do to get it to work. I will start by explaining how I got mod managers (e.g. HedgeModManager) to work and how to get Flawless Widescreen working on Linux. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.28_Linux_Flawless_Widescreen_With_GameScope_Mod_Launchers/Linux_Flawless_Widescreen_With_GameScope_Mod_Launchers.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.22_ImageLibrary_and_Teaser/ImageLibrary_and_Teaser.html Not much to say about it. It is accessible in the header bar and contains images I want to share. The images are higher quality then usual around here BUT still heavily compressed or edited to keep the size down. Web space is expensive. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.22_ImageLibrary_and_Teaser/ImageLibrary_and_Teaser.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.01_My_DND-TV-Table/My_DND-TV-Table.html Yeah, I have build my own boardgame TV table, better known as the DND-TV-Table. If you want to build one yoursef, you can use my model for measurements. The units are real life centimetres. And, sorry not sorry, it's a Blockbench model, so it can't be used for ordering parts or building things directly, but it can help a lot. The TV I used was the SHARP LC-43CFG6452E. I had to remove the rebuild model of the TV from the Blockbench model. You will need to model your TV yourself. You only need to do this if you have a different TV, which is very likely :D. The holes are made to fit most TV's with a little bit of cutting. All rights reserved! Don't share or sell it! IT IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY! I WILL ENFORCE MY COPYRIGHTS! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.06.01_My_DND-TV-Table/My_DND-TV-Table.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.05.21_The_most_convoluted_Vinyl_Setup_imaginable/The_most_convoluted_Vinyl_Setup_imaginable.html For reasons I have a Turntable that I can not use currently. I wanted to be able to use it, even though it is relatively rare. The easiest way I found was to use my guitar mix panel and my PC. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.05.21_The_most_convoluted_Vinyl_Setup_imaginable/The_most_convoluted_Vinyl_Setup_imaginable.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.05.01_Expecting_Software_is_wrong/Expecting_Software_is_wrong.html What do I mean by that? I mean expecting people to have an Android/iPhone phone with the Play-Store/App-Store on it so you can download a stupid data-harvesting app so you can get your concert tickets (if you know who I mean, you know who I mean). It doesn't even stop at private companies, even the government expects you to have one these days. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.05.01_Expecting_Software_is_wrong/Expecting_Software_is_wrong.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.04.12_MAKE_ART/MAKE_ART.html Art and every kind of creation, especially in digital media, get's called content nowadays. From paintings to games to music, from videos to even books. How much, how long, how good? that is all people talk about. You could say it is just a word, but it represents a deeper issue with the way people look at art today: it is, for most, mindless stimulation. It is content. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.04.12_MAKE_ART/MAKE_ART.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.03.26_Retro_Compaq_Sleeper/Retro_Compaq_Sleeper.html I have collected a few old computers and "retro" consoles over the years. Recently I found a Compaq Prolinea 575e at my local recycling center. It is nothing special, just an old x86 computer that was not selling very well at the time. It looked all right from the outside, so I talked to the people there and took it home. Inside, the hardware was... well... some capacitors were not feeling well and puked their fluids all over the place. In short, the hardware was completely f*cked. But the case was still in ok condition and I decided to clean it up as much as possible and, if it looked decent after that, I would make it my new PC case. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.03.26_Retro_Compaq_Sleeper/Retro_Compaq_Sleeper.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.02.06_AndroidAuto_without_Google/AndroidAuto_without_Google.html This is written a bit differently as it was originally part of the Fairphone 5 entry. It should give you all the information you need to get started and to get it working. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.02.06_AndroidAuto_without_Google/AndroidAuto_without_Google.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.30_Firefox_DNS_ISSUE/Firefox_DNS_ISSUE.html I was having a problem on one of my OpenSuse installations where Firefox was taking about 30 seconds to start. After changing some network settings it fixed itself, but the longer the system ran the worse it got again. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.30_Firefox_DNS_ISSUE/Firefox_DNS_ISSUE.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.20_HyprLain_DotFiles/HyprLain_DotFiles.html Not much to say about it. I made dot files based on a game/anime. Very simple but effective. Many files are missing (mainly wallpapers and sound effects). But there is no way to include them. They are copyrighted. I documented a way to recreate them (and yes, it took me at least as much time to figure it out as it feels like while reading, which is like several days). Was it worth it? No. Would I do it again if I could time travel? Yes. ;P https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.20_HyprLain_DotFiles/HyprLain_DotFiles.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.07_Minecraft_Gamescope/Minecraft_Gamescope.html Let's keep this short. If you want to play Minecraft with Gamescope for multi-monitor gaming, or FSR upscaling for better performance (or both), you will probably encounter several errors. The easy way to fix this is to use graphics mods, which seem to change a lot of things in the rendering pipeline to fix the problems encountered in vanilla Minecraft with this setup. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.07_Minecraft_Gamescope/Minecraft_Gamescope.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.03_Linux_VIA/Linux_VIA.html Not much to say. I got to try out a keyboard that supports via configuration. I knew there was is a open source keyboard firmware (QMK), but I had never used a keyboard that supported it. The problem on Linux is that a security feature prevents the configuration page from accessing and communicating with the keyboard directly. I got it to work using Chromium because it supports WebHID (native, NOT flatpack, idk. what prevents flatpack from working with this workaround) thanks to a thread on the Arch Wiki. We need to allow the browser to access the software on the keyboard. Open "chrome://device-log" in Chromium, then open the/your VIA page and try to connect. Now check the output of the log tap in Chromium. You should be able to find a line like "Failed to open '/dev/hidraw7': FILE_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED". Open a terminal and run the following command with your ID: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.01.03_Linux_VIA/Linux_VIA.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.29_NewDesignIsHere/NewDesignIsHere.html I will really try not to make all the gifs too annoying / performance intensive XD. But I will allow myself at least for this post to put a lot of stupit useless Assistent gif and more everywhere. Just for fun. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.29_NewDesignIsHere/NewDesignIsHere.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.21_AndroidTV_Modding_Experience/AndroidTV_Modding_Experience.html We bought a new TV (OLED and yes it is really nice) and it has Android TV on it. Android == modding for me, LOL. I enabled USB debugging and installed a few apks via network. Finding apks that work on Android TV is hard. Firefox CAN work, but you need a universal apk, which can be hard to get/find. There are websites that host the official Universal image mirrored from the Playstore. Getting it from the Google Play server is possible, but I did not succeed with this method. A good indicator is that the apk is around 200mb instead of around 100mb. After I got firefox working, I installed alternative stores and open source alternatives to the play store, installed flauncher (open source alternative launcher for the home menu (android tv stock home menus are so useless and cluttered with ads)), disabled the stock launcher completely with two commands that need to be executed really really fast for it to work (one of the packages renables the other), added the wifi password again (after disabling the stock luncher you have to do that) and I was almost done. I installed a few missing apps like vlc and steamlink, removed as much garbage as possible with the andoird app settings and set dark images as wallpaper so the oled is not strained with stupit stuff and that was it. A few hours of work, a lot of disabling, replacing and correcting stuff but now the tv is really nice to use. The replacement launcher makes everything easy to access without ads, the TV feels faster with the developer setting for animation speed enabled at 0.5x. I really like it now. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.21_AndroidTV_Modding_Experience/AndroidTV_Modding_Experience.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.13_404_Page_Added/404_Page_Added.html I never noticed it was missing until I found a broken link to another blog post. So I built one. I also added a few things in the background to prepare the site for further changes. I mainly wanted a 404 page, the ability to display gifs without them being blurry and to disable interpolation as much as possible. LET THE PIXELS BREATHE >:D. I will be adding many more changes over the next few days and weeks, without making much of a fuss, until major changes are done. This entry will probably never be read by anyone but me BUT it's there :D. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.13_404_Page_Added/404_Page_Added.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.07_FIx_USB_NO_DATA_ONLY_POWER/FIx_USB_NO_DATA_ONLY_POWER.html A recent kernel update made my front USB ports and a USB-C to HDMI adapter on my GPU unusable (yes, the AMD RX7900XT/XTX have a USB-C port and yes they are USB-4 port with Displayport AND data for USB for example. Docks actually work on them lol). The problem was that the ports had power BUT no data going through them. Linux did't even saw the ports with lsusb. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.07_FIx_USB_NO_DATA_ONLY_POWER/FIx_USB_NO_DATA_ONLY_POWER.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.02_CatWithCode_RSS-Feed/CatWithCode_RSS-Feed.html A very VERY simple implementation and still handmade because my custom webpage tool is still in the early stages of development. Hope you like it! I have added items for old entries with very basic information. New ones will probably get a custom text and formatting if I'm not too lacy, but for any old entry its just not worth it. Now everyone can keep up with my BS. Probably no one will, lol, but its there now ;). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.12.02_CatWithCode_RSS-Feed/CatWithCode_RSS-Feed.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.30_VR_ON_LINUX/VR_ON_LINUX.html Windows Mixed Reality on Linux? Yes... yes, some people are just crazy and make everything possible. I tried it and it works very well. Much better than you would expect. More often than not, the Linux tools are far FAR more stable than the official windows tools (which are kinda not good. They are bad... like really bad. They are so bad that even my mum asked why the official tools are so unstable). Just wow and huge respect to the developers and the community behind the Linux Software!!! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.30_VR_ON_LINUX/VR_ON_LINUX.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.23_New_Design/New_Design.html Not much to say. I saw a font in a game, thought it looked really cool and after reading the licence I wanted to use it for my website. All resources can be found in the sources section. Thanks to "Abbie Gonzalez" for creating the beautiful and very readable "OpenDyslexic"-Font! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.23_New_Design/New_Design.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.13_Fairphone-5_Stuff/Fairphone-5_Stuff.html This time I will do things differently on my blog; I will just document everything useful I find out or do with the Fairphone 5 in one place without a goal in mind, as long as I am using it. Everything from modding to installing UbuntuTouch will be documented here: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.13_Fairphone-5_Stuff/Fairphone-5_Stuff.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.06_Raphnet-Tech_Dreamcast-USB/Raphnet-Tech_Dreamcast-USB.html Nothing was paid/sponsored/offered/provided/anything that would benefit me financially/personally if I wrote about it on my blog under the influence of a products developer. Everything is here because I wanted to write about it, no strings attached! Links to services I have used are only here because I want to give as much information as possible about how I made everything work. I bought it myself and then decided to talk about it on my blog for one reason: literally no one talks about or even wants to use there Dreamcast controller on their PC. Two or three youtube videos here and there, but thats it. I want to change that. And before anyone starts crying: I bought it for myself, Raphnet-Tech doesn't even know I exist, except for an email exchange confirming they don't ship to Germany, even better, they haven't shipped to Germany since 2019 or so. I had to import it myself using a proxy service. Also: There are other projects for this and all I found are not suitable for everyday use. But the cool thing is that Raphnet-Tech openly shows how to build there adapter on their blog. That means: If you want to build one yourself, you can "easily" do it with enough knowledge about hardware and chips. I linked everything I found and used in the sources section. And with that Internet BS out of the way; https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.06_Raphnet-Tech_Dreamcast-USB/Raphnet-Tech_Dreamcast-USB.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.27_Sway_Tilling_WM_Sound_Effects/Sway_Tilling_WM_Sound_Effects.html I wanted to add sound effects to my Sway desktop for different actions like ScreenLock and similar things. Thanks to the way most dot-File WMs work, you can add commands to almost any action. There is a little program that lets you play music in your terminal called sox. It has a command called "play". You can use this to play a sound when you start your sway season, for example: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.27_Sway_Tilling_WM_Sound_Effects/Sway_Tilling_WM_Sound_Effects.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.07-02_New_Website_Location/New_Website_Location.html Well... that was quick. I'm already finished with moving my website from github pages to its own domain and webhost. The old site is now an archive and will only redirect the user to this site and will be deleted as soon as the search engine picks up the change. And now the big question: Why .moe? Answer: It's funny, cheap and fits the technical focus, nerdy atmosphere and style of my blog. I originally wanted .io but... wow is that domain expensive. Sorry not sorry. LOL https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.07-02_New_Website_Location/New_Website_Location.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.07-01_Rework_Website/Rework_Website.html I have reworked some parts of my website, making it as "releativ" as possible (and fixing some jank where possible). This will make moving as easy as possible. Moving? YES! I will move my website to its own domain. It's currently hosted on the GitHub pages, but I want to move it to its own domain and host. The name and links will probably change. Most of it is still in the works. I am just happy that the site now only uses relative paths. A lot of things are still not perfect, but good enough for a hobby project. If I could fix these few things, my site would not need Javascript. The problem is that I still have not found a way to make everything modular without using external libraries. And if you wanted to use only HTML and CSS right now, I would be reusing a lot of code and not be able to change the header for example on the fly without changing everything. I know, I know, static HTML websites are not meant to be used like this, but I want to. If I could do it without overloading browsers and using external libraries, I would go the other way and put everything in a DB and only load from there with basic Javascript. Unfortunately without external stuff this is not easy to do (in a reasonable amount of time for a hobby blog). Well, this is it for now. As soon as I'm done with the moving the website, I'll update a few pages and create a simple page to offer users a redirect from here to the new site. Everything will still be OpenSource, of course ;). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.10.07-01_Rework_Website/Rework_Website.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.09.23_I_THINK_YOU_SOULD_NOT_USE_UNITY/I_THINK_YOU_SOULD_NOT_USE_UNITY.html They tried to change their model on how they make money by forcing a payment with every installation if your product meets certain conditions. What came out of it is irrelevant. Just the fact that they tried something like this shows how far a few people behind the company would go, risking the income and livelihood of so many costumers, just to make more money. That's besides the probability that the people behind this idea probably have enough money for 10 lifetimes. This is why I am removing all Unity related posts from my blog. You can still find them on older commits of this blog, but I will not link to them and will not help you find them. Use Godot, Unreal or something else, preferably Open Source. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.09.23_I_THINK_YOU_SOULD_NOT_USE_UNITY/I_THINK_YOU_SOULD_NOT_USE_UNITY.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.08.08_Linux_dotWMs_and_Ultrawide_Gaming2/Linux_dotWMs_and_Ultrawide_Gaming2.html Here is the first entry with KDE and ultrawide gaming: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.08.08_Linux_dotWMs_and_Ultrawide_Gaming2/Linux_dotWMs_and_Ultrawide_Gaming2.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.20_Chroot_Linux_3D_Android/Chroot_Linux_3D_Android.html Well... it was a lot of work. But it was worth it! Once everything is set up, you have a Linux installation on your Android phone at native speed (if you don't think about the resources Android needs to run). Even 3D acceleration for games works! It is still buggy and in very early development, but it works well enough. And the X11 hardware acceleration works great for everything else. It is literally an ARM PC in your phone. I used a lot of pre made tools to set everything up. All the stuff you need to do is soooo muuuucccchh. I would take weeks if I had to learn, try and setup everything muliple times. Read all the scripts and what each file does before e you use/execute them! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.20_Chroot_Linux_3D_Android/Chroot_Linux_3D_Android.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.16_Scrcpy_Fix_Broken_Image/Scrcpy_Fix_Broken_Image.html I am using a GSI on my phone and when I try to use scrcpy I get this output: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.16_Scrcpy_Fix_Broken_Image/Scrcpy_Fix_Broken_Image.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.15_Unihertz_Titan_Slim_UbuntuTouch_Fail/Unihertz_Titan_Slim_UbuntuTouch_Fail.html I've knew about it for a while, but didn't think about it again until yesterday. I have had my Titan Slim for a while now and only now did it occur to me to try this port. My conclusion: this port is magic and a dead end at the same time, at least for me. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.15_Unihertz_Titan_Slim_UbuntuTouch_Fail/Unihertz_Titan_Slim_UbuntuTouch_Fail.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.02_Linux_Music_with_PC-Speaker/Linux_Music_with_PC-Speaker.html If you are still a "fan" (It is just very useful to have when troubleshooting, OK?) of PC-Speaker (the thing that beeps at you when your PC starts) like me you defiantly wondered at least once if you can make noise inside of your OS with it. Turns out you can. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.02_Linux_Music_with_PC-Speaker/Linux_Music_with_PC-Speaker.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.01_SteamDeck_SSD_Swap/SteamDeck_SSD_Swap.html I swapped the SDD of my SteamDeck. This is not a How To, I just wanted to document my experience with system performance after the upgrade. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.07.01_SteamDeck_SSD_Swap/SteamDeck_SSD_Swap.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.30-02_Automatic_Linux_Server_Reboot/Automatic_Linux_Server_Reboot.html I have just set up a Linux home server. I want it to shut down at night when no one is using it. After a bit of research I figured it out. I just wanted to document how I did it. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.30-02_Automatic_Linux_Server_Reboot/Automatic_Linux_Server_Reboot.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.30-01_Self_Hosting_Nextcloud/Self_Hosting_Nextcloud.html I had an old PC sitting around doing nothing and I wanted a home server. After researching and looking up how to do things I got to work on it. I wanted an easy way to host my own game servers for games like minecraft, services like a youtube proxy or a RSS-feed and many more. But what I wanted most was a NextCloud server. I had to learn how to use Docker and Docker networking in such a way that it remained secure and accessible within my network, only by devices that we allowed. Everything should also be easily reversible or removable if we stop playing a game or a self-hosted service stops working. Docker is perfect for this. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.30-01_Self_Hosting_Nextcloud/Self_Hosting_Nextcloud.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.14_Brother_Network-Scanner_Linux_with_Firewall/Brother_Network-Scanner_Linux_with_Firewall.html Well... Brother printers and scanners can be tricky to get working under Linux because they often use or need their own drivers. Now put a firewall in between and you are ready for some fun... . Yayyy... . I got it to work and documented my way of doing it, so you don't have to 😞. I used ufw with gufw as the frontend. This should work on all firewall's by just replacing the steps in there configuration. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.14_Brother_Network-Scanner_Linux_with_Firewall/Brother_Network-Scanner_Linux_with_Firewall.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.09_Varmilo_Apple_Linux_Function_Key_Fix/Varmilo_Apple_Linux_Function_Key_Fix.html I was given a Varmilo keyboard some time ago and it works fine on MacOS and Windows. But on Linux the FN (function) keys are reversed. Normally you hold down FN and press a number for an FN key, but on Linux you get media-keys instead. You can get FN-keys by pressing FN+PageDown, pressing the number and then FN-PageUp. This is annoying. The hid-apple kernel module is meant to fix this BUT for keyboards that are mistaken for an Apple keyboard it is a bit more finicky. I searched for quite a while and finally found a configuration that works for me. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.09_Varmilo_Apple_Linux_Function_Key_Fix/Varmilo_Apple_Linux_Function_Key_Fix.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.04_Linux_Eclipse_JavaFX_efxclipse/Linux_Eclipse_JavaFX_efxclipse.html I wanted to use my Eclipse work environment on Linux, but if you look a bit into it you will see that there is a lot of tinkering needed to get everything working when it comes to JavaFX. Here I will document how I did it. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.06.04_Linux_Eclipse_JavaFX_efxclipse/Linux_Eclipse_JavaFX_efxclipse.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.05.24_Unihertz_Titan-Slim_GSI_Modding/Unihertz_Titan-Slim_GSI_Modding.html It's me again trying to mod Unihertz Titan Phone. But this time all of the sesearch and documentation work was already done by rumplestilzken @ Github with absolutely great tools and documentation. This entry is only to show in what order I did everything and how it worked out. This one will be written more like a continues Blog entry because I'm writing this over the time I wait for the phone to arrive until I have it modded and working. Last time I modded a Unihertz and wrote an entry about it I primarily did research and testing. The development and reverse engineering was already done by others, just not in one place and all over the internet. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.05.24_Unihertz_Titan-Slim_GSI_Modding/Unihertz_Titan-Slim_GSI_Modding.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.04.07_Linux_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround/Linux_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround.html This is outdated. More updated information: /Blog/2023.10.16_No_Desktop_Is_Ready_For_Ultrawide/No_Desktop_Is_Ready_For_Ultrawide.html https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.04.07_Linux_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround/Linux_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.02.16_Windows_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround/Windows_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround.html I wanted to play Racing-Games and others in a very weird tripple screen setup on windows. It is a "Portrait Lanscape Portrait"(PLP)-Setup. And to top it off, it is P1080p-60hz, L1440p-165hz-P1080p-60hz. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.02.16_Windows_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround/Windows_Force_Triple_Screen_Gaming_without_Eyefinity_or_Surround.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.12.26_X670_DDR5_XMP-EXPO_FIX/X670_DDR5_XMP-EXPO_FIX.html UPDATE FROM 2023.02.01: LOL. They removed F4d as well (Thank's to NickHumphries: https://github.com/CatWithCode/catwithcode.moe/issues/3#issue-1566352686). It is still online: [SHA256: b142eb7f96505e26b4667737b820afa6afb41487e69052b0137f963a2e168b31]: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_x670-gx-ax_f4d.zip https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.12.26_X670_DDR5_XMP-EXPO_FIX/X670_DDR5_XMP-EXPO_FIX.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.12.16_Radeon_7900XT-XTX_On_Linux/Radeon_7900XT-XTX_On_Linux.html UPDATE FROM 2023.01.08: Thx to some people in this Github-Issue: "https://github.com/CatWithCode/catwithcode.moe/issues/1" I discovered that Arch is not really working... actually... it kinda works great... IDK. It ONLY works if the iGPU of the CPU is enabled. Nothing is connected to it, but for some unknown reason everything works as long as this condition is checked. NO performance issues or anything! With iGPU disabled everything is extremely broken. As far as everyone can tell, it has something to do with a still outdated version of LLVM (The 7900XT/XTX needs version 15 or higher). For me it is perfectly working so I don't worry about it, but if you don't have a iGPU on your CPU the 7900XT/XTX will still not work without some fixing work! I left some good discoveries and information in the Sources Section if you need a starting point. All this will definitely change in the very near future, but for now that's all we got. When even Arch is too outdated for your hardware you know you bought bleeding edge. Also, some games show multiple ways to display the game (I only have displays on the 7900XT and some games give me the option to display it on one of the three displays with 2 different GPUs each (https://github.com/CatWithCode/catwithcode.moe/issues/1#issuecomment-1374572918). Some games that come as a Flatpack have the issue of relying on some Flatpack dependency that is too outdated to recognize the 7900XT/XTX and only render the game on the iGPU (DXVK-HUD can tell you what the game gets rendered on). XIVLauncher for example. AUR or compiling yourself is the only option currently (Will also definitely change in the near future!). https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.12.16_Radeon_7900XT-XTX_On_Linux/Radeon_7900XT-XTX_On_Linux.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.11.11_Removing-Google_Goodbye-Twitter/Removing-Google_Goodbye-Twitter.html Most search engines finally found my Website and indexed it (Everything from DuckDuckGo to even Bing). Now I don't need to force any indexing anymore and decided to remove the Google-HTML-Tag from this Website completely. Now that the search engines do the indexing them self I don't need to force it through Google anymore. That means in the near future I can not use the google search console and don't see anything google search related information about my website anymore because google will not know that I am more or less the owner of this website. Privacy GO! But Google still can see everything about you... well, sucks to use google. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.11.11_Removing-Google_Goodbye-Twitter/Removing-Google_Goodbye-Twitter.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.16_Mainboard-M.2_NVMe-Mod/Mainboard-M.2_NVMe-Mod.html First of all: If someone wants to follow in my footsteps and do this mod them self, be warned. If you don't have dual BIOS, you could brick your motherboard without an easy way to repair it, you use Modding tools with very integrated parts of your system and need to trust the creator of the Modding Tools and files that they are clean! Don't do this in safety applications or if you are not able to fix a broken motherboards. As usual and always on the internet: If you do this kind of BS it is always at your own risk. !OBVIOUSLY! https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.16_Mainboard-M.2_NVMe-Mod/Mainboard-M.2_NVMe-Mod.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.06_Fixing_Mainboard_Freeze/Fixing_Mainboard_Freeze.html I used the Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK. All Links are in the Sources-Section at the bottom of the page. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.06_Fixing_Mainboard_Freeze/Fixing_Mainboard_Freeze.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.02_BIOS-Mod_Gigabyte-GTX-1080-G1-Gaming/BIOS-Mod_Gigabyte-GTX-1080-G1-Gaming.html I have a Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8GB and it WAS AND STILL IS a great GPU BUT for some games it is too weak (Or the game is to badly optimized LOL). I use Linux with Wayland so I can not overclock it at the moment. Years ago on Winodws I tried, but I hit the GPU-BIOS power-limit and could not overclock any further. Today GPUs also try to overclock themselves as far as possible and Gigabyte GPUs often are already at there Stock-BIOS limit. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.10.02_BIOS-Mod_Gigabyte-GTX-1080-G1-Gaming/BIOS-Mod_Gigabyte-GTX-1080-G1-Gaming.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.08.07_Unihertz_Titan_GSI_UFS/Unihertz_Titan_GSI_UFS.html First of all; What is UFS and what does it mean for me. The first Titans have EMMC-Memory (The phone storage). UFS is a faster type of memory and in pretty much every model after the first year of production as far as the community is concernt. UFS is faster and generally better BUT the way how it interacts with Modding stuff and the firmware is drastic... . That's why you need to be very careful and do a lot of research before you try anything or you will end up with a seemingly HardBricked phone. At the moment the TWRP ONLY really works on EMMC and the start of unlocking and Modding is different. GSIs, after everything is prepared and installed, are used and flashed the same way. But the SP-Flash-Tool needs different files for different types of memory and most importantly, you cannot install any ZIPs with UFS Titans at the moment. This can, but most likely will not, change in the future. You will probably will lose your warranty. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.08.07_Unihertz_Titan_GSI_UFS/Unihertz_Titan_GSI_UFS.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.07.05_OpenSuse-Linux_Very_Long_Shoutdown_Time/OpenSuse-Linux_Very_Long_Shoutdown_Time.html If your OpenSuse/Linux System takes very long to shutdown there is a thing you could try that fixed it for me in almost all cases. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.07.05_OpenSuse-Linux_Very_Long_Shoutdown_Time/OpenSuse-Linux_Very_Long_Shoutdown_Time.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.07.02_Totakas_Song_Easter_Egg_On_Animal_Crossing_New_Leaf_Website/Totakas_Song_Easter_Egg_On_Animal_Crossing_New_Leaf_Website.html I loved to play this game back then. I visited the website and saw that there was a little note animation above K.K. Slider. I clicked on him and there it was- Totaka's Song. I found it so cool! So I recorded it with a screen recorder. After that I slapped a cringey intro in front of it because 2015 and posted it to YouTube. The website was gone a few days later and nothing was left. No backups. No Wayback Machine Archive. As far as I know no one else had found it back then. My friends did not believe me because the website wasn't there anymore. A lot of Websites and YouTube-Channels over the years took my Video or the information. Often they did not credit me... yeah modern internet. I wanted a way to preserve it. So I got into contact with someone at Archive.org and now it is on there Archive and preserved. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.07.02_Totakas_Song_Easter_Egg_On_Animal_Crossing_New_Leaf_Website/Totakas_Song_Easter_Egg_On_Animal_Crossing_New_Leaf_Website.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.21_OpenSuse_Nvidia_Gaming/OpenSuse_Nvidia_Gaming.html I needed to reinstall my PC (It was so full of trash it started to get Buggy. 4 Year old Manjaro install that saw 2 GPUs and 3 motherboards) and I thought I could try something different. Didn't do that for years and as this Blog shows I love tinkering. So I did. I installed OpenSuse Tumbelweed. I Love OpenSuse since I started using Linux 7 years ago, but it is kinda annoying sometimes to use because you can definitely notice it is based on a Server-OS. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.21_OpenSuse_Nvidia_Gaming/OpenSuse_Nvidia_Gaming.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.15_Microphone_to_Speaker/Microphone_to_Speaker.html Sometimes you want to use a device and watch a video at the same time and you need to use headphones. In such cases it would be useful to pass the sound through your computer to your headphones without some sort of external mixing because reasons. On Linux this is actually very easy. You can use the pulsaudio(pavucontrol)'s loopback function to pipe a microphone or any other audio source through the microphone jack to the headphone jack. There is actually only one command needed. I use a bash file and created a menu entry so I can open it like a normal program. You can the audio-mixing of your desktop to controll the volume of the passthrough. Just use the microphone volume setting on your system. And YES this only works on Linux and WSL https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.15_Microphone_to_Speaker/Microphone_to_Speaker.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.08_Unpack_Repack_Resign_APK/Unpack_Repack_Resign_APK.html Sometimes it can be useful to make modifications to an Apps AndroidManifest.xml. When you have developed an app years ago and you want to change some propriety's and you deleted/lost the source code. When you have a very old android version and an app does not install because of some artificial limitation from developer even when the app is just a simple app like a text editor. Or you want to use an app like a file manager from your old phone on your new phone but the phone maker made a dependency to one file in the system so the app only installs on this phone and not any other. In such cases this method would work. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.08_Unpack_Repack_Resign_APK/Unpack_Repack_Resign_APK.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-03_Nokia_Force_Update/Nokia_Force_Update.html You need to use the Script on Linux or WSL. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-03_Nokia_Force_Update/Nokia_Force_Update.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-02_MonoGame_MGCB_Linux_Error/MonoGame_MGCB_Linux_Error.html If you get the following Error when you are trying to use the MGCB-Editor: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-02_MonoGame_MGCB_Linux_Error/MonoGame_MGCB_Linux_Error.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-01_Unity_VS-Code_Linux/Unity_VS-Code_Linux.html https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.03-01_Unity_VS-Code_Linux/Unity_VS-Code_Linux.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.02_Hello_World/Hello_World.html This is my first Blog-Entry ever made. So hello. I'm a girl from Germany. I work as a software Developer. I know a lot but not enough about C# and WPF and make Industrial software for machinery and bookkeeping. I love playing games, modding and tinkering. Thanks to that I find a lot of random and obscure stuff in my daily life. I always wanted a way to document it. I just posted that stuff on Twitter or Reddit but as everyone knows after some time it gets archived on Reddit or drowns under other posts on Twitter. But I found that every few weeks I get a message about some things I did a while ago from people that need help with doing it them self and often the information was already archived or drowning in other posts. Now I have a Webpage to document everything I want. My plans for now is to take all the things I posted in the past and post them here (with some updated information). After that I post from time to time stuff on here. Because I use GitHub for this Blog (and I m just lazy) there is no comments function. Checking ever comment if it is clean and not dangerous takes to much time (and as already mentioned, I'm L-A-Z-Y). If you have something to add just message me on Twitter or GitHub (look at the 'CONTACT"-Page) and I will update the Blog-entry if needed or add your comment. https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2022.05.02_Hello_World/Hello_World.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:30:05 GMT