Last night, right before going to bed, I noticed that my 4K monitor seemed to be awake despite my computer being asleep. Upon closer inspection, I realized one of my cats peed on it, pooling right on the button board, causing the permanent awakeness. A lovely token of their anger that I left town for a few days.

I cleaned up the initial mess then and there, but knew it would require more work. Today I took apart the monitor case and cleaned every single part with isopropyl. After several hours disassembling, scouring , and reassembling, I finally have it working like normal, sans piss aroma.

I also just got a new 1440p curved monitor to replace my old crappy 2nd screen, so I got that set up as well. Now I have an even nicer system than before, despite the pretty major annoyance involved.

  • Trebuchet@lemm.ee
    11·
    4 days ago

    First of all, congrats on the new monitor.

    I have an issue with cats shitting on my lawn, so i spent 30 seconds researching natural ways to keep the wee bastards at bay. Apparently they’re not big fans of citrus, mint or lavender, so if you’re able to keep something like that close to your monitor, you might avert a repeat tinkling.

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        My wife recently planted lavender at the front of our house to stop the cats who occasionally crapped there. In the week since, we’ve had probably four times as much…

    • drail@fedia.ioOP
      4·
      4 days ago

      Thanks!

      This is the first time they have ever done this, so I am not too worried. On the rare occassion they mark, it is usually at ground level.

      I have tried dried orange slices to protect my xmas tree, but they just knocked the fruit off and played with them haha. The only deterrent I have found with them is fake pine scent, which I hate as well, so I think I’ll just keep my office door closed when I am not in it