There are a lot of reasons why open-source might not be the right option for every project. Making a project open-source comes with more responsibility, since you now not only have a project to develop, but a community to manage and more risks to mitigate. You can no longer afford your own pace since people can contribute at any point. Any contribution has the potential of being great or being dangerous, so it has to be reviewed. That’s time I don’t have. Making your code public means anybody can have a copy, including companies that train their AI models on other people’s work, without permission. I refuse to let Microsoft, OpenAI, or any other company steal my work without permission for a profit. On the otherhand, even if no model would be trained on my code, there is still a malicious intent to impersonate me by scamming other people with a copy of my app, and I want to minimize that risk as much as possible. Chrysalis, the backdoor that came with Notepad++ for months, is one of the examples of how things can go wrong if risks are not mitigated. I could continue with other reasons, but I think it’s enough to understand why open-source is not the right approach for me.
How do I ensure transparency then? By letting the product and users talk about this. I know it’s hard to believe that a product like this is free and there is no catch, but I’m one of those users who understands the frustration of having ads everywhere, the frustration of having your data collected without consent, or the frustration of using products designed to make money, not to address a genuine need. I made a product that I wanted to use myself. It was designed to solve an existing problem, not to invent a new one.
There are still good people in this world.
The first language is automatically selected from the list of installed language packs found in Windows settings:Time & language > Language & region > Language. The list can be reordered using drag and drop and if your language is not supported, English is the fallback one.
This is a modern Windows app, it can’t be uninstalled from the Control Panel like the old ones, you can either:
Windows reports the battery status to the app and it might be the cause that your battery health is poor or discharging even if plugged in. The Windows Experience Index benchmark can’t be run while the battery is reported as discharging.
The maximum value supported by the assesment tool (winsat) is 9.9.
This option is automatically disabled if your GPU does not support it.
Devices that support Modern Standby (S0 power state) can’t have multiple power plans.
This is how WMI (the tool used by the app to get these kind of information) reports the RAM capacity. Something on your OS is corrupted, might actually be the WMI repository itself. You can try to rebuild it or reinstall your OS as a last, unpleasant solution.
The setting found under Performance > Visual > Adjust visual effects for best performance will make fonts look more pixelated as a side effect. This effect is caused by Smooth edges of screen fonts option, which for best performance needs to be turned off.
The app requires administrator rights, so the user opening the app must be an administrator as well, otherwise, despite you being logged in with another user, the app will still open with the administrator user, all settings being applied to that one.
To make a user an administrator you can use net localgroup command or lusrmgr.msc tool.
This means you have a volume license, which is not stored locally on your device, but managed by the organization that owns it.
This message appears when certain Windows settings configured in Group Policies are changed (either by your organization or by third party apps). You can find a tutorial to get rid of it here, but settings affected by this message will reset to their default.
Uninstalling Microsoft Edge is not supported on LTSC versions of Windows, with no exception for EEA, as Edge is considered a “core” part of the OS.