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My brother has worked on and off (mostly on) as a NASA contractor: Think treadmills in SPACE!! and a really cool four wheel-steering concept car. He always says space is actively trying to kill you. There are so many random and completely unpredictable ways to die it is ridiculous.
To people who are very excited about colonizing Mars, I say go find the most extremely inhospitable hellhole on the face of the earth, somewhere like the middle of the Sahara or Afghanistan or Death Valley, bring minimal equipment and provisions with you, leave your sat-phone at home because no one is coming to help you, and you'll still be a thousand times better off than you would be on Mars.
Having said all of that I would be happy to do a sub orbital flight on one of those very high flying aircraft. And I would absolutely do the Red Bull parachute jump from space. That would be beyond amazing.
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I have enough space already (between my ears).
I wouldn’t know what to do with more.
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Warning: C++ rant
So I'm making an image base class for things like jpgs, pngs and svgs (those are my 3 derivations)
JPGs use CMYK888 color model, SVGs use RGBA8888, and PNGs vary but often RGBA8888
The way my library works is that it supports different color models at arbitrary bit depths, but the model is part of the type signature.
like rgba_pixel<32> vs cmyk_pixel<32>
This creates problems for me trying to produce a generalized draw callback for images because the source format and color model can vary.
Now you might think "why not abstract your pixel with a common interface?". These pixels are a binary footprint, and are the nearest available word size to the actual size of a pixel in memory, for very good reason. Also they compile to integer literals a lot of time (as long as it's a fixed color at compile time). If I start hanging a vtable off of it all that changes.
One thing I could do is accept a common color format for every image. Just force it to be rgba_pixel<32> (RGBA8888) and call it good enough, but that leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
Another thing I can do is templatize everything to accept a pixel type but that just kicks the can down the road, and worse, causes template poisoning/template creep.
Further complicating matters is the fact that images produce their data in different ways. JPGs yield 8x8 regions until the entire space is filled. PNGs give you sold colored rectangles of various sizes (as small as 1x1) to draw. BMPs give you an entire horizontal line at a time, bottom to top, and SVGs plot one pixel at a time.
I have figured out how to abstract that, but not in a way that works efficiently with every format, so I need to poke around more, especially with the SVG code to see if I can get it to produce small bitmap regions. Probably it will speed things up as well.
I occasionally find myself in a position where I wished C++ was more expressive, but in this case, while I wish that, what I want I want is probably impossible. I want a common binary interface for something that is not generalized. Ain't no language feature gonna change that. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Just throwing this out there…
so the high level apis don’t show the lower type specs, but all take a generic callback pointer.
The callback must match the lower type requirements?
Compiler won’t be able to help here, but if your bitmaps show up incorrectly, they should catch that pretty fast in testing.
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The stack frame would be different for different signatures. I'd have to make a sig that took something very general like void* for the bitmap data - not out of the question.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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No doubt your work is of great consequence and significant. I the other day raised my arms in victory merely having discovered how in C++ to templatize function calls per tuple size.
"I must have had lessons." - Reverend Jim Ignatowski / Christopher Lloyd
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More of consequence to me than anything. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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<rant>I don't know what dumbass made this decision, but I'd $itch slap him or her into next week and give them a wedgy. So, Microsoft rolls out OS and application updates constantly, and sometime in the past (and I know it's been a while) they decided to change the default save locations to OneDrive. They clearly did not think this through, or maybe they did and it's anal retentive.
What software company changes user defaults? Let me re-phrase, what competent software company does this?
I get MS wants us to use the cloud so that everything is backed up, but I now have documentation in assorted locations, and I need to figure out the most current. It does not help I'm picking this up after 2 months of downtime. This is up there with the automatic reboots. I swear, I'll punch these people if I ever meet them.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 18-Aug-24 8:53am.
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What's so special about Sunday?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's today.  Nothing special... I'll fix that.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I meant that all days of the week are equally good for a rant.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Harder to find an available pulpit on a Sunday though.
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Good morning.
It does not change your default location if you have ever set it before.
If you have never set a default location, then it will change its default location.
On my work PC I save locally to my shared drives, on my tiny tablet-PC I save to Onedrive because I have very little space on that tablet.
You can change the default save location when you go save a file.
I hope this helps with at least the anger.
Have a great day!
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You replied to the wrong message in this thread.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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This was your post:
I don't know what dumbass made this decision, but I'd $itch slap him or her into next week and give them a wedgy. So, Microsoft rolls out OS and application updates constantly, and sometime in the past (and I know it's been a while) they decided to change the default save locations to OneDrive. They clearly did not think this through, or maybe they did and it's anal retentive.
What software company changes user defaults? Let me re-phrase, what competent software company does this?
I get MS wants us to use the cloud so that everything is backed up, but I now have documentation in assorted locations, and I need to figure out the most current. It does not help I'm picking this up after 2 months of downtime. This is up there with the automatic reboots. I swear, I'll punch these people if I ever meet them.
My answer addressed the fact that it does not change the default location and that I have several machines that have their own default location.
You have to set them first before they become your custom default locations.
That sounds to me like dead on what you said.
Other people also addressed the same and corrected you.
I wish you luck with your understanding of how software works.
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Have another look. The post you were trying to reply to was from @charlieg, not me. He will probably be unamused at your message.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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whoops, my bad.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Android is doing something similar. Making it harder and harder to save files locally.
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charlieg wrote: I don't know what dumbass made this decision, but I'd $itch slap him or her into next week and give them a wedgy.
Ha ha ha. Tell us how you really feel Charlie. 
Jeremy Falcon
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charlieg wrote: I don't know what dumbass made this decision
charlieg wrote: what competent software company does this?
It's not dumbness or incompetence, it's the fact that they want possession of your documents, so that they can scan them with their AI and build a profile of you. Check out the latest Terms of Service from MS, and you'll see that it grants them a license to use your documents however they want to.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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sigh, I sort of knew this, but I really wanted to stay in la la land.
I would support federal legislation outlawing these sorts of agreements. I recently learned that many new car dealers are installing trackers on vehicles, even if you pay cash. Ford has a patent on reporting driving habits to the government.
I miss my 2002 Maxima and my 1996 4-Runner.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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If a car maker wants to collect data to monitor MY vehicle's behavior, I'm okay with that - just be upfront. If they collect data and then sell it to the highest bidder, it's a completely different story. Don't hide behind 50 pages of disclosure agreement a customer has to agree to in order to use your cars app. Etc.
Governments are completely out of control, esp. mine. Rather than be legal and do government things like for the general good, they've figured out how to hide behind beauacracy and simple incompetence. And then there is just government evil. 10+ years ago, along came ancestry.com. You could send them a saliva sample, and they would allegedly tell you your ancestry. And they promised it was all private. Then they sold ALL of the DNA info to the FBI.
Meanwhile, don't change my default folder microsoft. dicks.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Just went through this on a new car buy from a Toyota dealer.
The dealer had a charge on the invoice for a "security" system. Found out it was being installed when delivered at port due to vehicle thefts and their insurance requires it.
They most certainly are NOT tracking you.
We just told them to NOT install it as the one they use is a horrible system (i.e. cheap).
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My new Ford Maverick collects driving habit and information to be used to "help" them in the maintenance of the truck. After the news about GM sending that info to insurance companies I was worried they would do the same. They do, but in the menus of the truck you can disable that information from being shared with insurance (not the default) and supposedly other parties. I wanted the truck, so I will have to trust that are honoring my settings not to share. Do I trust them? Not really.
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