Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve just come back from a long walk night, slightly over 20km, but it was really cold tonight .The temperature according to the Metservice is 4 degrees celsius but it feels closer to 2 degrees celsius – I should have worn a long sleeve t-shirt under my jumper but I thought it would be sufficient to keep me warm, I guess I’ll chalk that up as a learning experience. Hopefully spring will be coming soon so the weather will get nicer and the days will be longer so that the walk after work is more enjoyable. When I got home I cranked up the heater, jumped in the shower and finally got warmed up then I followed that up with some pumpkin soup.

End of the week tomorrow and start of a weekend – I’ll follow up with my doctor regarding the test results but I’ll assume if the results weren’t good they would have rung me straight away (normally 3 days after the test) but the fact that they haven’t is a good indication that either things have improved or they haven’t regressed so I’ll keep the blog updated with the outcome.

I’ve been following the computer that I ordered for mum and it appears to have left Hong Kong after travelling from mainland China. It is scheduled to arrive on 27 August but as I’ve noted that when dealing with DHL they tend to deliver before the due date – a good example of that would be the Snakehive case I bought and it was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday but ended up arriving on Monday. If past experience is anything to go by I wouldn’t be surprised if it touches down in New Zealand either Sunday or Monday then is delivered on Tuesday. If it turns out to be a really good computer I may even buy myself one to replace my M1 Studio.

Samsung released the Samsung One UI 8 Beta 5 for testing with most commentators pointing out that this could be the last beta release before maybe a release candidate then the stable version being released in September. The kernel has been updated from 6.6.30 to 6.6.77 – the 6.6.x branch being the longterm servicing branch – you’ll find OEMs tend to stick with longterm servicing branch as it provides stability that can be carried over multiple versions without having to port then retest their drivers if they moved to a newer version but with that being said there is nothing stopping Samsung at a later date updating the kernel to a newer longterm servicing branch.