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Tomorrow (I started writing this blog post on Thursday) is Friday or what would be for most people ‘hump day’, the middle of my week then two days more afterwards then I have Monday and Tuesday off for my weekend. Law & Order: Organised Crime Season 5 has started up again – reminds me very much of Bosch in that the season tends to focus on a single narrative that is stretched over a whole season or if there is a second narrative it intertwines itself with the main narrative.

Well, Friday arrived I had some horrible discomfort so I rang up the Health Line (link) because I didn’t want to jump to conclusions only to find out that It was something that would sort it out if I drank some water, relaxed. After explaining the symptoms the operator thought it would be best to go to the hospital who then called an ambulance on my behalf since I had no way to get to the hospital. They ran some tests and probed me ending with positive news being that it wasn’t something serious but caught up on some sleep and monitored me to ensure everything was ok. I had no way to get home so mum picked me up and I spent a good amount of Saturday sleeping. It’s now Sunday and I’m still recovering – feeling a bit better than on Saturday but one can’t expect to have the issue resolved in around 24 hours.

An interesting thing happened over the last 5 days which was some upgrades being done by my internet service provider along with Ubiquiti pushing out an update for my UDM router and so far I haven’t see the high latency message appear in the Unifi control panel so maybe a combination of the internet service provider upgrade along with my software update has addressed the issue. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when my internet service provider moves to offering DHCP and see how well it performs when compared to PPPoE. From what I understand it has been rolled out for Spark customers but it’ll eventually rolled out to Skinny customers – Skinny being Spark’s ‘all the thrills, none of the frills’ internet service provider they use as a ‘price fighter’ (those who are price sensitive and aren’t interested in the add ons that Spark offer with their own plans). At the moment there is UniFiOS 4.2.9 in the ‘Early Access’ programme which includes quite a few improvements since 4.1.22 (the current release) – it’ll be interesting to see what the experience will be like Skinny makes the switch to DHCP.

How are things going with my iPhone 16 Pro Max on Skinny Mobile? going pretty well – slightly better performance and coverage thanks to the newer modem, fast and responsive and the battery life is pretty good. Had the circumstances been different and I had my old iPhone 15 Pro Max would I have upgraded? probably not, we’re now at a point where upgrade cycles at now 3-5 years as the smart phone market has matured in much the same way that the computer industry has matured and with that most of the focus I see is about software and cloud services – integrating the two together and then selling paid for services aka the holy grail of any business is the reoccurring revenue stream of subscriptions. It’ll be interesting to see how the Apple modem performs once it makes its way to their flag ship smartphones (and other devices). From what has been reported regarding the C1, the modem has good coverage particularly on the edge of coverage area which is a big improvement over the Intel modem that had a bit of a reputation not performing the best in such a scenario. I have a feeling that what we saw with the C1 is Apple wanting to nail down the basics (aka good coverage) before optimising around performance. Another thing to keep in mind is that there is also Apple working on their own wifi and bluetooth chips as well – when you make put everything onto the same silicon then it gives you a lot more flexibility when it comes to managing performance and battery life where you control the whole widget and understand how everything works (not to mention the optimising the hardware and software for each other).