Limonene

Our colony rescued Ferco from a drop pod crash and nursed her back to health. A day later, I looked closer at Ferco's stats, and saw she had no Adult Backstory. Oh, she's only 17, that's why.

Child backstory: Child star. "Ferco was well-known throughout her homeworld as a child actor in films and TV shows. Her fame put her in contact with many different kinds of people, but also tended to get in the way of her education."

What, as a nudist!? She arrived with no clothes, the Nudist trait, and the "Happily nude" moodlet. Is Ferco some sort of horrific brainwashed slave?

She also had severe alcohol addiction (at age 17), and arrived with 5 beers as her only possessions.

So Ferco, in a moment of lucidity, managed to escape from the Butdainor faction that was abusing her. She stole a transport pod, launched to anywhere, and happened to crash into our colony. A colony where my pawn Haplo lived.

But Haplo was the father of Penny Hancock, Prime councilor of Butdainor. And when a Butdainor trade caravan came to our colony, Ferco was handed over to the care of the trader, who did not give her any clothes, though the temperature was 6 C outside.

There's some fucked up shit going on in Butdainor, and Haplo is complicit.

I'm planning to buy a new phone, and would like advice. I will probably get one of the following:

• Pixel 8a running GrapheneOS
• Pixel 8a running CalyxOS
• Fairphone 5 running CalyxOS

Either one of these phones will effectively be without warranty from the start. I can't file a warranty claim for a Fairphone 5, because they offer no warranty in my country. I can't file a warranty claim on a Pixel 8a, because I can't create a Google account.

Free open source software is important to me, and these are the free-est phone OSs I could find.

I'm planning to install Magisk to root the phone. I need adb root at a minimum. Will this prevent automatic updates?

Why do the GrapheneOS people say that rooting breaks the whole security model of Android? I can't understand this, because only a few specific apps are granted root access, or possibly only adb.

Reasons I need root access:

• I need a comprehensive backup system. Non-root backup systems skip files.
• I want to block connections using the hosts file.
• I want to study the filesystem to learn more about Android.
• I want to mess with apps' internal states.

I just signed up for Costco and visited the store for the first time. I'm a little disappointed. Everything there is really unhealthy. They have a full bread aisle, but no whole wheat bread. I feel like the store is 1% produce, 69% highly processed food, 30% objects.

Lots of types of groceries are missing. I overheard two other parties saying they would go to Walmart afterwards, to get stuff they couldn't find at Costco.

Everything there is such a disorganized mess. Most of the aisles are incoherent.

What's with the baggers? Why would they have bag boys but no bags? Do all Costco stores have no bags? I don't need an entire worker just to put my stuff back in the cart.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239

Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.