Matisyahu's Blog

Busy week and almost Monday, the big day for my A1C blood test, hopefully I’ll get an answer back quickly to see whether all the hard work has paid off. On Thursday I went for a 14.5km walk then on Friday a 8km walk then on Saturday another 8km walk. The walk on Friday was tough because the 14.5km took a lot out of me – my feet were really sore but I kept pushing on because I’m someone who doesn’t give up so easily once I’ve set my mind to something kind of like a dog with a bone.

Windows 11 April 2025 update was made available on my work laptop (I work from home) and I noted on on BlueSky how there was a performance boost in the user interface. I read through the change log and I didn’t see anything mentioned but I wouldn’t be surprised that Microsoft is a bit like Apple in that things are fixed but not mentioned on the change log because it isn’t something that is user visible.

If I were to consider moving to Windows I’d probably get a Microsoft Surface laptop and a Dell desktop computer – I’d get a Dell primarily because although I could build a computer myself I am too lazy to do that not to mention the minefield of dealing with vendors who will try to blame the customer for a fault in their product. Intel is launching Panther Cove and Nova Cove towards the end of this year and beginning of next year along with the series 2 of Qualcomm’s chips for laptops and rumoured for desktops too. I love macOS but Windows 11 has really closed the gap to the point that my mind is open to Windows especially when one considers how well Android and Windows 11 integrate together (making and answering phone calls, sending and receiving text messages etc).