I can't believe this is still impossible. Surely engineers at Microsoft are suffering from this too? But I guess they really want to push the search bar and ai features that don't fit on a vertical taskbar.

although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal

They often go down because of ddos attacks, although not exclusively.

Then I quit!

Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks.

I think most microsoft extensions aren't available in forks like vscodium. Which is a bummer given that their extensions offer support for so many languages.