The American & Chinese delema

I ain't no China glazer but the government says Chinese apps spies on you, but the American apps and OS does the same,

Google analyses your search history + many people claim that it listens to you also listens to your conversations

On the other hand Microsoft windows is the biggest spyware and everyone knows it. It's sends more data to third party's and much more.

Data sharing issues and Meta have the same page. I don't even have to explain it. Y'all already know it.

But the main problem is why nobody calls these things out & are this double standards or it's just -ve pr against china. Experts what are your opinions on this?

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u/its_avm_05 — 5 hours ago
▲ 2 r/windowsapps+1 crossposts

Dark switch v1.5.1 now has CURSOR switch with which you can select different color for different modes.

Dear DarkSwitch (previously AutoDM) users,

Thank you for all the support and love which you have shown towards this app and special thanks to the haters for making this app what it is today.

I know I had promised y'all that I will be drop weekly updates and will solve every issue which you have raised, but I would like to admit I was wrong. There were various bugs in v1.4.2 which I wanted to fix but the code was so messed up that I deleted the entire project and started developing each and everything from scratch.

I renamed the project from AutoDM to DarkSwitch because I do think the name AutoDM does not represent the nature of this app correctly. Plus, I have made various changes with version 1.5.1, which are

  1. Added quick option in the setup
  2. Added asking for consent when turning on switch based on sunrise/sunset
  3. Corrected bug caused by the startup trigger
  4. Fix the incorrect position of start menu when toggled when taskbar is set to any of the sides
  5. Fixed the task manager theme issue
  6. Added cursor scheme switch
  7. Added solid color & slide show option in wallpaper
  8. Added a list of all option which windows gives for sold color
  9. Fixed accent color switch during scheduled toggle
  10. Added warnings to accent color when using custom color
  11. Added option to choose from auto, windows color and custom for accent color
  12. Added a list of all option which windows gives for accent color
  13. Added more option to Adjust priority list
  14. Fixed stuff with system integration
  15. Added core settings
  16. Fixed the updater
  17. Made the toggles precompiled to not do the same task again and again
  18. Fixed the uninstaller
  19. Added the ability to delete registries by DarkSwitch to uninstaller
  20. And many minor things......
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u/its_avm_05 — 21 hours ago

Looking for a 1080p 120hz monitor

Size does not matter, just want it below 7k....

No stuck/dead pixels or any white spots

Specs above that are welcome;

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u/its_avm_05 — 2 days ago
▲ 54 r/surat

Guess these Surat's locations....

Hint:

Location in Picture 1: is in a college

Location in Picture 2: is from a ground

Location in Picture 3: is nearby 1 & 2

Location in Picture 4: is near a temple

Location in Picture 5.... well let's leave no hint for this....

u/its_avm_05 — 8 days ago
▲ 27 r/windows

Looking for better apps

So my current app list is:

  1. Browser: I use Zen as my daily drive because of it's compact mode (provides the best viewing experience) + it is based on firefox

  2. Video: ScreenBox it is; has almost all (not everything) features of Vlc with a new layout

  3. Productivity: Capacities - It's free tier is unbeatable. I know about notion but it's free tier feels like garbage nowadays

  4. Antivirus: The great Windows defender

  5. Video editor: Resolve

  6. Music: Spotify

  7. Search: Everything search over windows search anyday

  8. Unigram instead of telegram: because it has better ui i guess

  9. Wino mail for mail

  10. Geek uninstaller portable for uninstalling apps

  11. Some other productivity tools:

SortFE: Sorts everything in one command(based on name date extension etc) + has scheduled sorting of folders

Quick look: For checking files quickly

AutoDM: switches between light and dark mode without running in background

Flow launcher: for opening apps and files quickly

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Ai app: None, other social media apps: none

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What am I looking for: I'm pretty much new to windows and I do not know the best apps which windows provides, if you know any better apps(good ui or functionality) or apps that I can replace my current apps with then plz recommend me......

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u/its_avm_05 — 22 days ago

RCS spam is getting out of hand!!

If you are in India and you have RCS turned on, you pretty much know what I am talking about.

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Companies hit on me every day (I get to know what it's like to be a girl on IG) spamming their offers and trying to compete for who gets me.

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On a serious note, these companies make the whole experience awaful and unusable. Now you might say that I'm and idiot and I should turn off this RCS nonsense but brother my work relies on RCS so I can't.

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I just report every company as spam and pray that one day TRAI or Google will wake up and just block this RCS advertisement nonsense, but till that time arrives DOES ANYONE have a suggestion or a solution for me?

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I'm asking for an offline app that blocks it or DO NOT DISTURB FOR RCS if TRAI or Google has released it....

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u/its_avm_05 — 23 days ago

Added dark mode with sunset option to AutoDM - An app which does not run in the background

This is a complete free and open source app.
Just added this option because many Europians wanted it, this option gets your location through windows api and calculates sunrise and sunset accurately.

For ppl who don't know what AutoDM is:
It is a auto dark mode switcher containing all features of autodarkmode (microsoft store) and light switch (powertoys) but it does not runs in the background unless and until triggered.

In simple words it has:

  • Scheduled dark mode
  • Auto dark mode according to sunset (newly added)
  • Can set different wallpaper for light and dark mode
  • Can set different accent colors for light and dark mode
  • A customizable shortcut key through and a start menu shortcut through which it changes mode temporarily
  • It does all that without running in background, no background ram/processor usage and no extra processes.
  • Supports all time format
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u/its_avm_05 — 28 days ago

Is there an app like legion toolkit which has active development?

I uninstalled vantage a while ago, used lenovo legion toolkit (on github), but it is now not in development, are there any alternatives?

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u/its_avm_05 — 28 days ago

I found a way to calculate time of sunrise and sunset using windows api

I used a mathematical formula to calculate time using windows api. Now I can successfully integrate it in my app which uses no background resources to schedule dark mode on windows 11.....

I would like to thank the europions who insisted me that this feature was necessary. Get ready for the update guys, I'll drop that next week!!

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u/its_avm_05 — 30 days ago

Solved: Auto Dark Mode for Windows 11

I solved the biggest personalization issue which was missing from windows 11 by task scheduler and registry editor.

I also got it to work by sunrise and sunset by using location using windows api and a math formula, which gets the exact time of sunrise and sunset.

And I also made it so that I can switch the wallpaper and accent color using the same task.

So it is finally solved for windows 11

My Windows version: 25H2 (latest release)

In previous version of windows (24h2), this thing gave errors and there were issues in themeing like in the task manager and file explorer

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u/its_avm_05 — 30 days ago

Will I get more fps on optimized windows 11 or xbox mode?

Everyone is hyping up the new Xbox Game Mode because it increases FPS, but I feel like most benchmarks are done on bloated Windows installs that were never optimized properly in the first place.

I tested it on my own setup after heavily optimizing Windows myself:

  • removed unnecessary background apps/services
  • removed edge, Xbox/Game Bar and all related stuff
  • all Microsoft store apps except for the important once
  • cleaned startup tasks
  • reduced telemetry and random background processes
  • optimized power settings/drivers

And honestly? The FPS gains from Xbox Mode were way lesser than what people online are showing.

I think a lot of the “massive performance boost” comes from Windows finally stopping background junk from eating resources, not from some magical gaming optimization.

Curious if anyone else tested this on an actually optimized system instead of a default Windows install full of background apps.......

u/its_avm_05 — 2 months ago
▲ 16 r/Windows11+2 crossposts

Auto dark mode (without background memory usage)

Challenge done. Suggest me any changes to this app or on what I should do next?

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u/its_avm_05 — 1 month ago