Matisyahu's Blog

I’m at the halfway point in the year so I want to ramp up progress on reaching my goal of being below 100kg by the end of the year. Tonight I went for a 22km walk and tomorrow I set my alarm for 11:30am rather than 1:00pm which will allow me to get up, go for an 8km walk, arrive back home, freshen up and then start work then after work I go for another walk to unwind then combine that with getting back on track with a sustainable meal plan should result in me getting to my goal hopefully before the end of the year.

Part of that meal plan involves working through the food I have and then when mum comes back from overseas I’ll do a big shop with a grocery list that’ll be based on a fortnightly meal plan so then it is easier to budget for going forward. Basically what I want to do is to use up all the food I have at the moment so then I start from a blank slate and work up from there – maybe bulk buy things that can be frozen then from there it is topping up and buying things like milk that cannot be bought in bulk (I guess I could get the shelf stable UHT milk but it ends up costing more than just buying the normal stuff).

ASUS is looking to announce on 22 July an nVidia based ARM CPU/GPU combo (link) and Lenovo is also looking at launching one as well (link) – there isn’t anything mentioned about the operating system but given that the Lenovo one be available in the 3Q of this year I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up seeing Windows 11 25H2 adding support for it out of the box. The risk of Microsoft not stepping up to support this would mean ceding more ground to Linux and away from using Microsoft services if they don’t make Windows 11 available. If you don’t control the platform then it makes it easy for consumers to migrate from your other services or never use your services in the first place – see what happened when Microsoft gave up on smart phones and gave up trying to make their consumer facing services like search competitive with Google.