The taskbar could be moved to any edge of the screen since its introduction in Windows 95.

The first-party desktop mode that was introduced in Android 16 last year.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...

A lot of phones, including latest flagships, don't support this, unfortunately.

Maybe I didn't look hard enough, as I was put off by the pervasive absurdity of it, but I don't feel like I gained anything at all from watching that film.

Linux doesn't mean GNOME.

KDE favors server-side decorations.

I know, in fact I'm using Linux Mint.

The problem is that sometimes you need to use a GNOME app that looks completely out of place.

Hard disagreement.

https://0x5.uk/2021/03/15/github-rebase-and-squash-considere...

The provenance that is lost is the original base.

No, the original base is in the commit history. It's just not relevant any more after rebase. It's like your individual keystrokes before a commit are not relevant any more after a commit. They're not lost provenance.

The European Commission has recently put WhatsApp under scrutiny in terms of the Digital Services Act, and forced them to open up allowing interoperability with other messaging applications.

Perhaps we'll see a return of apps like Pidgin soon.

We've never left. https://pidgin.im/

WSL. Android app support (for the little while it lasted). Recall.

For Chrome and Firefox.

Odd response to attaching additional, valuable information to an existing comment.

That the first result is clearly marked as an ad is an opinion. One I don't agree with.

It’s not an opinion, the law states that ads must be “clearly” labeled as such, so if you disagree and think Apple is breaking the law, feel free to report them to the FTC and see how far you get.