Yeah. Try comparing texts written in Old English and Old Norse. It's basically the same language. (I'm not surprised at all that Beowulf takes place in Scandinavia.)
But I think they would both be easier to decipher for someone speaking Swedish than English.
There are strong indications that Half Life 3 (or at least a Half Life game) is coming soon. Of course, Valve might decide to pan the project, but I wouldn't be surprised seeing an announcement for 2026.
I am very much interested in local-first/only (backend-less) PWAs, and have built a couple of them myself.
Unfortunately, I don't think I have any use for a time-boxing app. Nice work though.
Is there a reason you went with localStorage rather than indexedDB?
One useful thing is supporting 3rd party sync services. One of the apps I built allowed syncing data across devices via Dropbox. I never got Google Drive working, though, their API was horrible to work with in comparison. Is sync support something you've considered?
I've long wanted a scrollable/zoomable desktop, with a minimap that shows the overall layout. Think the UI of an RTS game, where instead of units you move around and resize windows. This seems like something in that direction, at least.
How does Karousel work with full screen applications, e.g., games?
No, I think you misunderstand how it works. The problem is that task 4, as you call it, runs after the navigation triggered by the redirect value.
The the author expects the side-effect -- navigation to a new page -- of the window.location.href setter to abort the code running below it. This obviously won't happen because there is no return in the first if-statement.
They cracked down on ads talking about privacy, to the applause of everyone. Then they launched their own ad tech service. It's obvious privacy was used as an excuse to make more money.
I hope you're not asking for any evidence of their authoritarianism, it should be apparent to anyone who knows anything about the company. They readily cooperate with authoritarian regimes; look at their behavior in China, or how they assisted the totalitarian regime in Belarus to the detriment of pro democracy protesters.
"Obeying local laws" is not a valid excuse for unethical behavior, but is very convenient if all you care about is profit maximization.