I had work today which was rather uneventful which is always good – no drama, just serving customers and helping them to do what they want. After work I went for an 11.6km walk – still a little sore after the 22km walk on Tuesday but I’ve recovered pretty quickly although I did avoid the optimistic idea of getting up at 11:30am because when I did wake up I still felt pretty sore but by the end of the day I felt a lot better.
Mum is looking at getting a new computer, television but also looking at a new mobile phone. What I tempted to do is suggest a Pixel 9a (when the Pixel 10 comes out I’ll move over to that) given that she wants something with a bigger screen along with the fact that the Pixel integrates better with Windows than the iPhone does along with the fact that Pixel doesn’t include confusing crapware that Samsung does (the main reason I prefer a Pixel over Samsung). I’ll end up selling the phone once I get my Pixel – I don’t expect to get a huge wad of cash but if I can cover half the cost of a Pixel 10 Pro XL then I’ll be a happy chap. Personally I think mum should also look at getting a Windows laptop as well so then we can centre everything around One Drive – I’m tempted to maybe just give mum my phone and then buy the Pixel Pro XL since the Samsung already has a decent amount of Microsoft integration.
It’s funny because following on what is happening with Apple it appears that Apple have done the impossible – they’ve actually made Windows 11 desirable. If Apple can’t even get the basics done properly such as Mail on Mac setting up the aliases for my custom domain on iCloud or fix the issue where from out of nowhere it asks me to choose the outbound server and emails fail to send (which can only be fixed by logging out of iCloud then logging back in on macOS) I really have to ask what am I paying a premium for? For years the premium being paid was for the promise that ‘it just works’ but now increasingly more things aren’t working – the lack of investment into Webkit/Safari resulting it trailing behind the competition (standards compliance, implementation of web extensions API etc), the Mail issue that I outlined, user interface changes that make the user interface more difficult to use in terms of readability thanks to the whole ‘liquid glass’ – heck the butchering on iOS has made me love Samsung OneUI things are getting that bad (I’ve learned to live with things Samsung includes that I won’t end up using – as noted on a previous post the SmartThings app is pretty good, very comparable to the experience one would have with HomeKit).
Oh, and I’m using WhatsApp – does a good job keeping in touch with mum when she is overseas in Europe and I’ll probably just end up keeping it on my phone long term. That reminds me, I’ve got another idea for a blogpost I want to write – this one will be a bit of a spicy one where I talk about disinformation and misinformation on social media. Oh, and today (Wednesday) Google released an update to Chrome, haven’t noticed any difference however there are a small number of fixes (link). If you want to keep up to date on what is planned for future Chrome releases the information can be found over at the Chrome Platform Roadmap which includes links regarding whether other browsers have implemented it, if they haven’t why so, what the feedback web developers are etc (link).
I work from home where I work from Wednesday to Sunday, 1:30pm to 10:00pm, I get up at around 12:30pm each day which gives me time to have a coffee, maybe cook something for the first meal of the day (I only have two meals, a ‘brunch’ then a dinner at around 5:00-5:30pm depending on when my break is scheduled. As for when I go to bed, it can range from 2:30 to 3:30am depending on how I feel but a lot of the time if I do go to bed early what I tend to do is relax in bed listening to some podcasts.
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