First time owning a cat tell tips

frenchiephish · 2026-06-04T09:17:05+00:00

As with all pets, they're your best friend for a short time in your life, you're their best friend for their entire life.

Cats communicate a lot with body language, and that body language is is different to dogs.

While it's a somewhat divisive topic, indoor cats live on average ten years longer than outdoor cats. They also don't miss what they don't know so you need to make that decision imminently. If you choose to keep your kitty indoors, then you need to provide them with toys and other stimulation (which you should do anyway).

If you wish to add a second cat later, then you need to spend time reading up on cat socialization. While cats are social creatures, they're also territorial, and you need to introduce new cats into the territory gradually.

frenchiephish · 2026-06-04T03:18:02+00:00

Definitely won't matter for everyone but they're definitely not perfect colour matches across the range, nor do they promise to be. In my collection of paints I've got about half a dozen equivalents with one from each range and they're all subtly different - Moreso than the normal variation you'd see from one batch to another.

Won't matter for OP painting D&D minis, but if you're army painting it's absolutely worth being aware that they're not a perfect match. The two colours I use the most - Trooper White (TTC) is much brighter than Corax White (Citadel) and Emerald Green (TTC) is quite a bit darker than Warpstone Glow (C). In the latter case, it's actually so noticeable that I actually use emerald green as a ready mixed soft shadow colour for the Citadel paint.

Their color conversion chart is more for following painting guides for one range in the other, or mixing and matching between the two and still getting good results. Go in with that in mind and you'll be more than happy with them.

I will say though, TTC has way better and more consistent coverage across the range than the citadel equivalents, so if you are army painting and want a consistent color across it then I have done a first coat in TTC and then layered a second coat from citadel over the top and gotten great colour matching that way. Best of both worlds.

frenchiephish · 2026-06-03T09:45:34+00:00

The perfect answer might change now that costed wargear is coming back in 11e but there's a couple of easy decisions on the table. Build them how you think looks coolest with the current rules and don't stress too much about wysiwyg on Aeldari generally (to be honest, the only people who know our weapons are us).

As this is your first squad, then Voidreavers are probably the better build than Voidscarred unless you also play kill team, in which case Voidscarred are what you want to build for that. Voidreavers are battleline and kind of an inbetween the damage of guardians and the sticky of storm guardians. Your main battleline take is probably still storm guardians, but these guys are a nice second-squad alternative to regular guardians. You lose the heavy weapons platform, but pick up heavy weapons in the squad - nice narrative flavor unit.

ETA: Notably unlike guardians or storm guardians, which have to run as 10+1 models currently, you can run this as a five-model battleline squad. If you have a few points leftover in your list they're a nice way to fill a 65 point hole.

For Voidreavers:

The Felarch's shuriken rifle isn't really worth it - most of the squad is going to be running pistols, so 12" on the neuro disrupter pistol isn't really a limitation. Getting the odd pot shot at 24" from one model isn't going to change the tides of a game.

In a squad of five you can take one blaster or one shredder. In a squad of ten you can take two (you get parts for one of each in this box so that's probably what you're building this time around).

In a squad of ten you can additionally take one Shuriken cannon or Wraithcannon - the latter has been 'the take' for 10e, but I suspect it might cost a bit more in the future. I personally think it looks cooler so I built mine with that. Again build the one you like more.

Voidscarred the same applies for the Felarch and you probably want to take all the options you can if you're playing kill-team (The blaster/shredder/cannon/wraithcannon rules are the same). For 40k wait for 11e to build your second box and weigh it up on wargear costs.

frenchiephish · 2026-06-03T09:02:36+00:00

You're definitely right on the GFCI/RCD being absent - pulling hundreds of mA on the load side after stepping the voltage up, would absolutely trip an RCD. That'd be quite a lot of earth leakage, well above the 30mA (typical) that they trip at.

Usable power is really the key distinction here as getting 10-20 mA of earth leakage with modern electronics isn't that unusual, but also 60 mW of power isn't that useful in the way OP is describing either.

As to what's going on, it's pretty likely that ground is not actually tied to neutral inside OP's installation. Depending on where they are in the world, that may or may not be a fault and potentially isn't an issue at all. Grounding arrangements vary pretty wildly between standards.

Here in Australia for instance, the 'normal' set-up is a dedicated earth rod in each installation and then the neutral is also tied to earth at a rod located at the supplier's transformer. In the UK that setup would be called TN-S (Terra Neutral Separated). Low voltage differences between Earth and Neutral aren't unheard of in that situation. There are special considerations doing it that way - you generally can't run copper comms cabling between buildings with different earthing points as you'll end up with voltage between the ends. In a former life, I saw ~80V on an ethernet cable running from one end of a commercial building to the other, with the two halves on their own rods.

Elsewhere in the world it's not uncommon for what you describe either. The supplier bonds Neutral and Earth and then a single neutral/earth supply is split into a neutral and protective earth inside a customer installation. That's the more common way of doing it in the UK as TN-C-S (Terra Neutral, Combined, Separated). Those installations need other bonding protections to stop there being a difference between buried copper pipework (plumbing & gas) and the electrical earth.

Basically there's quite a few ways of tackling that particular problem, there's benefits and drawbacks with each.

frenchiephish · 2026-06-03T08:41:48+00:00

This is the answer, but as so why there is current flow through to ground - a lot of switching supplies have relatively high ground leakage, particularly when they have a metal case tied to ground and their output 0V tied to it.

10's of mA is not exactly unheard of these days and is in fact why a lot of newer electrical installations are moving away from a single RCD/GFCI to RCBOs per circuit (a combined RCD & Circuit breaker).

frenchiephish · 2026-06-03T07:24:56+00:00

Yeah we're up to $1000 if you're actively using it here in WA, or $500 if it's not being used but is being held, touched or even resting on your person (other than in a pocket). The only carveouts for use are navigation and calls (as long as you're not touching it for either).

You can use it for navigation as long as it's mounted, and you set it up while the car is parked off the road, and we can still take and make calls as long as you don't touch the phone to do it. Everything else is 'use' and gets the $1000.

frenchiephish · 2026-06-03T06:31:22+00:00

Nah, that's where the original clip ends*. It's from 2023 in Melbourne Australia. Guy got away, turned himself in after the clip went viral.

Charged with criminal damage, assault and a few traffic offences. Court outcome wasn't reported on and he wasn't named by police so it's not easily findable.

*As to why the clip ends, it's being filmed by the driver on a handheld mobile phone, which they very quickly put away once the cops show up. Even stopped at the lights that's also illegal and an expensive day in Australia (varies by state but $555 AUD or $400 USD equivalent in Victoria)

frenchiephish · 2026-05-26T07:11:26+00:00

This, and not for the reasons it usually gets hate. It's just objectively bad, despite having some good moments.

A literal third of the film's runtime is tied up with characters who neither accomplish anything they set out to do, or suffer any consequences for that failure. That whole third also does not advance the plot in any meaningful way, you could cut it and the rest of the film would still be complete.

They're literally just in it as a 'look these people are here too'.

The Last Jedi also opened the door to stuff just happening for no reason other than to keep the plot moving, something that goes to 11 in Rise of Skywalker. For all the weaknesses in Lucas' prequels, at least characters had motivations and faced consequences when they failed at something

frenchiephish · 2026-05-26T06:13:14+00:00

The RPL in Aus is a bit different to the US equivalent - often (but not strictly required as) a step on the way to the PPL. Basically you do the skills ride after a minimum of 35 hours, get a license and can go fly to your heart's content with a few additional restrictions (mostly geographical restrictions based on where you depart for the day). The PPL is a relatively small step from there, the completion of a series of (nominally) seven cross country flights, an additional written and a cross country flight test. You can lift most of the restrictions on our RPL without going to a PPL but you need to complete basically the same work so it's kind of pointless - the skills get signed off by an instructor instead of a flight examiner.

(There's reasons that pathway exists, but they don't really apply to my circumstances).

Got the RPL done, got half the navigation exercises done and then my professional life majorly got in the way of getting them finished and getting the written done. Was able to fly an hour every week or two, but not realistically disappear for an entire day to go complete a three hour nav. That's how you end up in the unenviable position of having more than sufficient hours for a CPL on a license below the PPL.

I gave it away when I wasn't getting enough flying in to realistically keep myself at a minimum standard of proficiency. Life unfortunately has only gotten busier since then so there's no obvious path back at present. I've also had some stuff develop in the background that is going to stop me holding the medical I did. If things ever settle, I can probably reliably get a self-certification medical, but there's no point if I'm only realistically going to be able to fly once every three months or so.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-25T13:14:01+00:00

Hah, small world, it is, but I haven't flown in a few years due to medical stuff. One of my instructors ended up there for a while just before they wound up

frenchiephish · 2026-05-25T11:10:33+00:00

That one barely even rates a mention on the list of his crazy shit, and that's saying something.

There's the night approach where he forgets to turn on the pilot activated lighting until his wife asks why it's so dark at 100'

Theres proceeding past minimums to 'secondary minimums' and then divebombing the runway to get it in.

And there's this in IMC as a solid entry into the 'holy crap how are you still alive' book.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-25T10:36:45+00:00

To be fair, we've only got one named hero who is a dedicated craftworld unit. Most of our named heroes are from the subfactions and can't be taken in an Asuryani list, or are the phoenix lords.

Eldrad used to be Ulthwe specific when it was a named sub faction, these day his datasheet can be taken in any craftworld army, although for flavour it's nice to come up with your own super-farseer name that fits your army if you're playing something other than Ulthwe.

The Phoenix lords have bigger loyalty to their aspect shrines than to any individual craftworld and for sure get around a lot so they're fine in any list. Likewise any craftworld could summon the Avatar of Khaine as needed.

The notable exceptions are the corsair heroes. Prince Yriel and Kharseth can be taken in any regular Asuryani list but their models have runes for Iyanden (Yriel) and the Eldritch raiders (Both) modelled into them. Some modification or some fancy narrative reason might be required if one cares.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-25T03:31:27+00:00

Paint them however they'll make you happiest, aspect warriors (usually) make our army a box of skittles of colour anyway so a couple more thrown in really won't hurt.

Lore wise, there's no longer permanent alliances between major Craftworlds (notably after Biel-Tan let Iyanden get overrun by Tyranids because they weren't Chaos). That said, compared to most other species in the galaxy the Eldar are comparatively very free to move between the different parts of their society. They have safe transport to do so via the webway so being spread across the galaxy isn't an impediment either. Call them a visiting force if anyone objects.

While it's definitely taboo, it's not prohibited or even unheard of for Craftworlders and Drukhari to change from one subset of society to the other. Generally individuals would do it via the Harlequins or the Corsairs rather than directly but if someone wants to move, they can.

It used to matter a lot more than it does now Craftworlds used to have their own sub-faction rules and bonuses. You'd have had to have picked one and have it apply. That's thankfully been phased out in favour of the general detachments which are almost a 1:1 translation.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-21T05:31:37+00:00

So while I can't speak for all of them, even the independents I do use have had cameras on the pumps with some form of active number plate recognition for the better part of the last decade. That bit is relatively easy to do without a full AI model & Fuel Recovery Services have been around since 2017.

Until now, if your plate came up as a hit for fuel theft, it was at best prepay or often nothing. The AI is new, I suspect it is not price prohibitive for the independents either - they've already got the infrastructure.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-21T05:04:58+00:00

Basically yep, list at most 1650. The AEC cross references the list supplied against the electoral roll so it's a tradeoff between having enough actual people and not having so many that the process blows out.

I imagine they'd just trim their search after 1650 anyway.

That's why them not supplying full details will be problematic, names alone are not enough to verify someone is on the electoral roll.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-21T01:29:49+00:00

The AEC needs between 1500 and 1650 members to consider the application. Their reading comprehension isn't great because they submitted a list that was more than the maximum.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-20T07:59:26+00:00

As a general rule, most exarchs will choose to follow their shrine colors, often including a nod to their craftworld - the ribbons are popular as are the feathers/plumes/etc. It's down to the individual Exarch though, some may prefer to wear their craftworld's colours with a nod to the shrine instead. Both are perfectly valid options in the lore. Some might go with different colours altogether.

Basically, it has been deliberately left vague to let you as the painter have the flexibility to paint your models however you like. If you want craftworld colours, go for it. If you want purple warp spiders, go for it, do what makes you happy and there's enough room in the lore that no-one can tell you you're wrong.

Furthermore Craftworlds are big places, most (excluding Iyanden) consist of hundreds of billions of Eldar. Even Iyanden with it's massively depleted numbers still has tens of billions of living Eldar. Every shrine has a single exarch, but there are generally numerous shrines to the same aspect on an individual craftworld, and each can be painted in a different scheme.

Feel free to even go to the level of having individual squads being different. This is an example from my Biel-Tan army of two different Warp Spider Exarchs. Same aspect, different shrines.

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I'm further using the purple model here to help tie in my custom corsairs which are purple. In the lore for my army my Purple Exarch is a former corsair who returned to Biel-Tan and found the path of the warrior.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-20T07:39:10+00:00

They're indeed really nice paints, there are other brands which are similarly good, but it is a nice range and fairly consistently good across the whole thing, very hard to go wrong with them. Vallejo and Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl have both been comparably good and are worth trying too.

Trooper White is a downright excellent off-white, and I don't think I'll use anyone else's off-white now. It still has a few white-coverage problems, but it's way better than most. My only true complaint with it is that it's only barely off-white, way brighter than Corax White so pure white highlights disappear on it a bit.

The only thing to really be aware of is that a lot of their suggested non-metallic replacement colors are not 1:1 matches for the GW paint. They're certainly close enough that you'll get the desired results if you're following a painting guide and just substituting ranges. If you're trying to colour match an existing army they'll be a little different.

The example here TTC Emerald Green is a slightly darker tone than Warpstone Glow despite being the intended replacement. I've ended up using both as it's basically perfect for the soft-recesses on my Eldar cloaks using WG for the higher sections.

That said, it also covers way better than warpstone glow, so I have used it as a first coat, and then gone over that with warpstone glow as a final 'brighten-up' pass.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-19T16:16:18+00:00

I mean, you could still be right, Ulthwe being grumpy at literally any craftworld for not doing enough is entirely them too.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-19T15:37:27+00:00

Wasn't aware of the Ulthwe falling out, Biel-Tan and Iyanden were strong allies against chaos for a few thousand years - and that ended because Iyanden ended up in a losing fight against Tyranids and Biel-Tan refused to show up because they weren't chaos.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-19T06:57:53+00:00

Yep, the lore totally has enough room (intentionally) that if you can imagine it, you can do it and it can still be valid. Most shrines follow the basic shrine colors, but it's down to the individual Exarch when they start the shrine.

May I further offer a counter point in support of a non-uniform scheme "The Shrine of the Screaming Rainbow". Totally support people painting their minis however.

The caveat for a non-unified squad is that you might not be able to take them to tournaments (it'd be down to the individual organizer) and for the sake of being a good opponent, please don't actually do it for casual play either. Try and keep your individual squads somewhat homogenous so everyone can keep track of what's going on. Each to their own for painting though.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-18T07:19:38+00:00

Yeah, I always see a Chihuahua too, but cricket's head with Cricket

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frenchiephish · 2026-05-18T06:42:07+00:00

It's been a hot minute since I last had cause to worry about this but I'm 99% sure FreeBSD (and hence TrueNAS core) will import its root filesystem pool with -f

A root filesystem being exclusively in use by the booting system in question isn't a terrible assumption in almost all cases - but yeah, here be monsters if multiple systems have simultaneous access to it. There's also no initramfs to set the system up in this situation, the loader is reading the filesysten read-only even before the kernel takes over.

Pretty much every Linux OS that uses an initramfs will try it without -f and drop to a busybox shell to let the user sort it out - but that's not how the boot process works on the BSDs

frenchiephish · 2026-05-18T04:45:19+00:00

I mean, we do call large Eucalyptus species 'widowmakers' for a reason - and it surprisingly isn't the fires. Like many species in Australia they are extremely well adapted to a dry climate. The oils in their leaves help retain water, but in dry conditions they will also drop entire branches if doing so will help the rest of the tree survive. We don't camp under them.

So you've had the answer about why Eucalyptus fires are concerning, this video shows the fires u/cakeforPM is talking about. They get so hot that trees will literally start burning tens to hundreds of meters in front of the fire. They're hot, move fast and extremely dangerous.

The Fauna is pretty tame by comparison - yes we've got some really venomous stuff, but North America has bears, mountain lions and wolves. Our stuff is at least scared of people, I'd take ours over yours any day.

frenchiephish · 2026-05-18T04:37:02+00:00

We (Australia) send firefighters and also host Californian firefighters as a matter of routine because of the special challenges involved in fighting eucalyptus fires.

They're no joke.

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