Matisyahu's Blog

It’s cold, it’s rainy and it is miserable so I have decided to take a day off from exercising and instead enjoy a relaxing time at home with the heater going and keeping warm. I went to mum’s place to have dinner and order a ‘Beelink SER9 Pro AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370’ computer (link) to replace her current Intel NUC i3 (7th generation) that is too old to run WIndows 11 because it doesn’t meet the hardware requirements. I’ve ordered that online but we’ll be heading down to the local computer store to purchase the keyboard, mouse and monitor – we’ve also got to to organise the printer and scanner because at the moment the office is a bit chaotic. Regarding what will happen with the old computer, I’ll probably set it up as a Linux server on my network to operate as a streaming server for music and video with it setup in my office since that is where my router is located. I have to admit, I am tempted to move from having a Mac to having a AMD based computer but I’m going to wait until I see what happens with macOS 26 and Apple’s other platforms.

The update for uBlock Origin has made its way to the Chrome store however it is still waiting for approval for the Mac App Store so it’ll be interesting to see what happens. There are a few bug fixes for Safari to work around bugs so I’m hoping that we’re going to see Apple move to fix those bugs in a timely manner although I am not confident given that the bug was reported in 2023 and it still hasn’t been fixed over 2 years after it was reported – but hey, I’d love to be proven wrong. What I’m hoping is that if it doesn’t get fixed in the first release of macOS 26 that one of the 26.x releases will receive an update. I guess it is a matter of priorities given that over the 15.x they’ve been making big updates to Safari in the 15.x updates.

There has been a 7th beta released but I’m unsure how close they are to a release candidate but it’ll be interesting to see how far off they are from iOS stabilising given that there is the iPhone event in September so it’ll be interesting to see when the announcement is, when the phones will start shipping to customers and how that will line up with the release of iOS 26 (macOS tend to get released after iOS releases). The Safari Technology Preview 226 will be released in the next few days and tomorrow will be the release of an update for Chrome 139 with Chrome 140 stable marked for next week and then the following week it’ll be released to the public – the features that’ll be included with Chrome 140 can be found here (link). It is frustrating how Google can move so fast at addressing bugs and problems and yet, as mentioned before, there are bugs in the Webkit bug database over 2 years old and still not addressed. I could understand if Apple was some plucky small startup but they’re a massive company so there is no excuse for not hiring the man power to address these shortcomings particularly when you consider the recent layoffs of programmers from multiple companies – there is a massive talent pool they can choose from.