The indicator is going to be empty most of the time and will be
emitted by the mode changer directly. That's going to the upper-right
corner and the status bar avoids emitting in that area.
Now that the boot binary is fully cross-compiled, there's no use for
the linker anymore. Theoretically, it could still be useful, but I
can't think of a real use case.
Let's take it out of the picture. If it's ever needed again, I'll
know where to find it.