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The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due to the potential for regional unrest, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The Baghdad embassy has already been on limited staffing, and the order will not affect a large number of personnel, but the department also is authorizing the departure of nonessential personnel and family members from Bahrain and Kuwait.

Note that we don't have diplomatic relations with Iran, so in the event of a military conflict with Iran, there wouldn't be anyone to evacuate there, just in nearby countries.

Smartphones are fragile without a case. They should have one, and maybe manufacturers should make that clearer, but a world where removable cases didn't exist would just mean that the case you get is the one that the manufacturer chooses for you and permanently attaches to the smartphone. Less options for you.

Just get a case.

I am also more than willing to carry a slightly thicker device if it means greater durability and easier repairability.

Me too. It's why I have a case.

And I am certain many others would gladly trade their bulky, overpriced cases and bumpers for a sturdier device that inherently provides the protection we now have to purchase separately.

If you want a built-in case, you can get them. There is a whole collection of "ruggedized" smartphones from various manufacturers in China that are large, usually have a hefty battery, and have shielding built into the device.

Look at Doogee for one such manufacturer.

https://www.doogee.com/

Oukitel for another:

https://oukitel.com/

Ulefone for another:

https://www.ulefone.com/

Personally, I think that the built-in case isn't very interesting relative to a removable case, but the large battery might be, depending upon your needs.

EDIT: A number of manufacturers will even make official cases for their phones, if you can tolerate a removable case and just want something endorsed by the manufacturer.

Apple, for example:

https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/accessories/cases-protection

Or Google:

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_8_phone_case?hl=en-US

I think there was some sort of color support prior to System 7.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II

System 6 includes QuickerGraf (originally QuickerDraw), system software used to accelerate the drawing of color images on the Macintosh II.

Hmm. Apparently System 4 had color support, which is earlier than I expected.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1bsttma/why_did_apple_wait_so_long_to_implement_color/

...it wasn't until two years later in 1987 that Apple introduced color with the release of the System 4 & the Macintosh II.

Here's a photo of a IIcx with a color display:

The last time I used a commercial VPS, I'm pretty sure it used VNC to provide console access.

The VNC software I linked to above appears to support TLS. If TLS isn't sufficient transport security, then most Internet-using software is going to be in trouble.

I'm not sure what you mean by subjective.

I haven't looked at the VNC protocol for a while, but I don't think that it imposes any terrible inefficiencies. A couple of decades back, I needed to implement something quick-and-dirty similar to VNC, and went with rendering window contents and handling dragging of windows locally, which I don't believe that VNC can do (or didn't then) but IIRC VNC has a tile cache, which, if intelligently used, should avoid most traffic. Dunno if it can deal well with efficiently rendering visual effects.

VNC is dead.

How so?

There are a number of software packages in Debian that implement VNC. To grab one random example, the last commit to their git repo was last month.

We used to have considerably-more-restrictive rules on women's swimwear ourselves in the US, not that long ago.

https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/08/11/430035360/sands-of-time-beach-etiquette-of-long-ago

A "beach cop" measures bathing suits in Washington, D.C., in 1922.

If OP is specifically wanting commercial support, they do mention two companies that provide services.

https://www.freerdp.com/support

FreeRDP itself is a community driven open source project. However there are some people and companies that do offer all sorts of commercial support around FreeRDP:

• David Fort - Hardening Consulting - Contact
• Thincast Technologies GmbH - Contact

FreeRDP doesn't seem to be soliciting donations, though.

It says that they found fox droppings, but, then, some years back I remember when they hired a company to have a herd of goats graze their lawn down at the Googleplex, and that has to be worse on that front.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/google-rents-goats-to-mow-the-lawn-11402182/

Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we've rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we're not "kidding"). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.

A bunch of scenes in Kentucky route zero,

You know, just yesterday I was trying to think of games that have untextured polygon art, because there are some that I really like the aesthetic of. Kentucky Route Zero is a good example.

• Carrier Command 2

• Kentucky Route Zero

• Out of This World/Another World (though that's getting back into the era where untextured polygons were a technical requirement rather than a stylistic choice)

• Avara. Honestly, the graphics here aren't that amazing, but I was kind of missing the lonely feel of it; some levels had a sort of wind sound playing and the graphics gave it a really cold feeling that I was kind of nostalgic for. Looks like it was open sourced and ported to various platforms.

• Ex-Zodiac, kind of a Star Fox-alike.

• Rez

I don't know if all of these are strictly untextured. Like, Carrier Command 2 might implement its pixelated displays with textures, or there might be glow or something like that done with textures. But the general aesthetic is untextured stuff, and it's kind of impressive to me how nice some of these look.

Some of these (Avara, Out of This World) are getting back into the era where computers just couldn't reasonably do texturing, and Ex-Zodiac is aiming to evoke Star Fox, which had that technical constraint. But some of them are just interesting aesthetic decisions. I do like what the modelers managed to do.

It has some of the effect that low-resolution pixel art does

makes the brain fill in the detail that isn't there.

Might as well demand demilitarization of Alaska, Hawaii, and California too, since Russia ran parts of those at one point as well. I mean, heck, why settle for just the Baltics?

When Finnish engineer Ari Kurvi takes a hot shower or turns up the thermostat in his apartment, he’s tapping into waste heat generated by a 75-megawatt data center 5 kilometers away.

Cats had figured out this "make use of waste computing heat" stuff long before humans had.

Some of the things that you have in your post don't make much sense to me, then, since you're talking about the money supply in at least part of it: "Money gets created in the USD economy all the time, whether by invented debt, cash printing, or the issuance of bonds."

I'm not sure if it's really coherent to aim to "destroy value" in the "USD economy".

If you want to reduce the size of the US GDP

though that'd be linked to the US, rather than the US dollar

you could reduce that by reducing economic activity. Like, say everyone in the US works four days instead of five, and then there'd be less economic activity, and that would cause the GDP to decline.