Matisyahu's Blog

Went for a 11.6km walk tonight and although it was a little chilly it hasn’t gotten down to the single digits in a while – hopefully I haven’t tempted fate by talking about it but hopefully the temperature will stay at around the double digits until spring rolls around. There is a benefit to temperatures being where they are – when I go for my walk I’m not completely drenched in sweat when compared to going for a walk during summer where even at night there is still a decent amount of warmth in the air. I stuck to my meal plan today although tomorrow I’ll probably walk to to the store to pick up some coffee concentrate so I can have an ice coffee at home – I like to have some extra supply of stuff at home so that I’m always stock with it rather than running it down to nothing then suddenly realising that I need to buy it.

The housing situation stumbles from one crisis to another but that shouldn’t be surprising when you have a government that ideologically does not believe in teh idea of public housing or public involvement in the building and provision of housing (link). As I’ve said in the past, we need to rebuild the Ministry of Works and invest in creating an army of skilled tradespeople who can engage in nation building – turn Housing NZ into the primary provide of rental accomodation resulting in the de-commodification of housing. Unfortunately I don’t see a National government making it happen but the Greens have talked about something similar so lets hope if there is a sharp swing to the left that it is one policy that Labour definitely picks up as part of a coalition agreement.

Ubiquiti has released a firmware update for the U7 Pro Max today which updates it from 8.0.19 to 8.0.49 – so far things have been pretty stable. At the moment there the gateway firmware and UniFi OS are in beta testing at the moment but it’ll be interesting to see how things develop particularly the gateway which has been sitting on 4.2.2 which makes me wonder whether we’ll be seeing them jump straight to the 4.3.x series. I haven’t enabled MLO yet on my access point because it is still considered ‘early access’ and I have heard some people having compatibility issues but I’m sure the engineers taking care of things so when it does launch it’ll be robust enough for mainstream use.

Windows 11 25H2 is rumoured to be a smaller update when compared to the big upheaval that came with Windows 11 24H2 where the underlying operating system was upgraded as well. It’ll be interesting to see whether Microsoft adopts a ‘tick-tock’ strategy like Intel did many years ago where every 2 years the underlying operating system is upgraded then the next year is focused on refining it, tying up loose ends, implementing features that don’t require under the hood changes etc. The reason I wonder is because if Intel APX does make its way into products in 2026 it would be interesting to see whether we see Microsoft recompile Windows 11 26H2 to take advantage of APX with those extra registers – I wouldn’t be surprised if there maybe some things that need to be done under the hood.