Matisyahu's Blog

Woke up this morning before heading off to work and Apple has released macOS 13.6 just a few days before they release macOS 14.0 to the world. Installed it on my Mac Studio along with Google also releasing an update which updated Chrome from 117.0.5938.88 to 117.0.5938.92 – no noticeable difference although apparently there have been some optimisations but I guess those will be only noticeable on websites that take advantage of the web apis that were optimised. One thing I did notice is that it fixed up the issue of YouTube Shots comment fly out not working so maybe it was an intended consequence of the upgrade or YouTube realised someone broke something and fixed up but either way I’m happy.

With the cost of living spiking across board and how difficult it is to make ends meeting (particularly if one has debt from a time when it was easy to keep up with payments) one thing to always remember, if you’re struggling to pay bills, loan/mortgage with the bank etc. remember to always talk to the business before it turns into a giant mess because most of the time the business would sooner arrangement payment than get no money at all. I had a chat with my bank and got things sorted out which has taken a whole lot of stress off my shoulders. I’m unsure of the situation overseas but in New Zealand the banks have what is known as a ‘duty of care’ – end of the day the bank just want their money and if it takes a little bit longer they would sooner that than getting nothing at all if a customer has to go through a bankruptcy process.

My boss has given me the ok for having 27 and 28 September off from work – I get to enjoy the day of doing a clean install of macOS 14 on both of my computers. Yeah, I know, I should be able to do an upgrade but like a lot for things ‘in theory’, it should work but many times there are issues that crop up which don’t occur on a clean install so I’d rather avoid the drama straight off the bat.

At the moment I’m still thinking about the iPhone 15 Pro Max but I want to get myself in a good financial shape before taking on any new obligations. The other benefit of waiting rather than being an early adopter is that any new product will include bugs that’ll need to get fixed with software updates so by the time one does buy one a few months later (3-4 months later) most of the annoyances have been addressed. I have to admit, I love the Apple ecosystem and look forward to getting back into it completely.