The "sane" answer that ChatGPT suggested to me is "just dump it in a json file and choose between Local and Roaming by the Microsoft service"

MSDN says in a few places that they got rid of Roaming in Win11, but also their advice is "system specific stuff in Local, user specific stuff in Roaming" which is actually pretty solid. But they also want you to put stuff in the registry in Local and Roaming keypaths too 😔

I am absolutely the fuck not storing a damn thing in the registry in the year of our lord 2025, the registry is Satan

I just wanted to know how I should store settings. The answer is "don't use the stuff Microsoft recommends it's just the registry, use json"

Ryan Salami? What's next... Kevin Bacon?

Now that I've brushed up on calling conventions and all the million jump operations I feel like I'm actually comprehending the disassembled code lol

I think this code is intentionally fucking with me too. Shit's calling std::_random_device for something which SHOULD be deterministic! At first I thought "Ah a seeded rng, clever" but no, random_device is unseeded real randomness????

Tbf I haven't touched either since dabbling in them in college… literally half my life ago