taskbar is very much related, it is an instance of explorer exe with some parameters, that makes it show as taskbar. Try killing explorer.exe in the task manager, when no other explorer windows is running.

That's an implementation detail though. While I find that sensible, most users are not technical and still consider that to be unrelated and a bug.

Yeah it probably traces back to the time when Microsoft tied internet explorer into every part of the OS just so they wouldn't be forced to remove it.

They're really bad at modernising legacy parts of the OS. Even to this day parts of the old control panel exist and it's been like a decade that they've been working on it.

> Even to this day parts of the old control panel exist

That is what keeps Windows usable though. I prefer them not the rip the last bits of sanity out.

Isn't there a feature phone in the market that is 5G, good battery and capable of sharing its internet via wifi hotspot?

I'm still looking for one, mine's currently an older 4g.

I'm 48 now, in Latvia, and expect that my retirement age will be 73+.

hopefully, they did find some traces of tea in those tea-bags

N150 is on the way already. https://liliputing.com/at-least-four-mini-pcs-with-intel-n15...

old? 6.9.x as of today https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/releases

I use Fennec on Android, which is privacy focused build of Firefox.

the fan

you can "open all tabs from other device here" to bring all tabs from your mobile to your PC

me. want. Thinkpad X1 on X Elite...