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It appears that there has been confirmation, be it passing a line within an interview, about the future of the coming of two operating systems into a single unified one that’ll span from watch to phone to tablet then to laptop. There is also talk about bringing extensions to Chrome along with making Chrome feature comparable to the Chrome that came with ChromeOS – it’ll be interesting to see whether Android on the laptop with extensions make their way down to the tablet and smartphone.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out for Google’s partners such as Samsung with their OneUI branding – will they allow the sort of customisation on Android on phones and tablets for laptops as well? will they also extend that to Android TV so then it would encourage Samsung to maybe bring them into the fold by allowing them to apple their OneUI magic to Android TV and Android on the laptop so then effectively Samsung, rather than being yet another Windows vendor to create a uniquely Samsung experience where there is the underlying Android operating system but a unique OneUI look and feel that makes their products stand out from the competition.

On some good news, the Samsung has released the July 2025 update, the kernel has had a minor bump in the patch level but it remains at 6.6.30, along with a baseband update, SE update etc. the size of the download was close to 600MB but because I’m at home on a decent wifi connection to the internet via fibre it downloaded pretty quickly resulting in it updating relatively fast. I haven’t noticed any regressions not noticed any changes which is a good sign that the best update is an update that fly belows the radar and life carries on as usual.

There are more rumours regarding Intel and the work being done to turn aroujd their fortunes such as this article (link) and (link) with the interesting part being around AVX-10 instruction set, and the APX extension being added which will hopefully translate to better power/performance to maybe closing the gap between x86 and ARM – it doesn’t have to necessarily beat Apple but if the gap closes then add on top the savings of going with Wintel is significant enough then for the average person it’ll be ‘good enough’ to get the job done (one of the reasons I’m looking at a post-Apple future given how i’m slowly falling in love with my Samsung phone). It appears that Intel have realised that approach they’ve taken has made it needlessly more complex and more expensive than it needed to be especially when compared to how AMD have pulled ahead while keeping very much a unified architecture. Keeping in mind that this is all rumours at the moment so it is a matter of seeing what actually ends up transpiring. As for mum, she still needs a new computer so I’m probably just going to order a Beelink SER9 Pro AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 which has more than enough grunt for what is required with oodles of space then pair with a better router for her fibre connection I’m hoping I can setup a computer setup that’ll make life easier. As for the old Intel NUC, I’ll probably take that off her hands, load Linux on it and turn it into a server with an external SSD sharing files to the network with it located in my office so it is directly hooked up to the router via ethernet cable.

Tonight I had a lazy dinner of a couple of sandwiches a small packet of crisps then went for a small walk – didn’t feel like it but I know I feel a whole lot better once I have come back home after getting some fresh air.