Matisyahu's Blog

Normally at this point I’m really looking forward to the final day of the week but apart from the usual work related stuff things have been pretty uneventful. Tonight I went for an 11.6km walk and that was completed in around 1 hour and 40 minutes which good that I am keeping up the pace. I was going to push for 17.4km but I decided not to because I would sooner consistently get that exercise every day than pushing it on one day resulting in me feeling sore the next day – so much so that I cannot work out. Consistency is my focus given that I tend to go from one extreme to another which isn’t good when it comes to developing good long term habits.

I’ve been following the whole Jimmy Kimmel and ABC situation – I am all for freedom of speech but equally I think that many who stand in opposition to Trump need to thing strategically in terms of what is your vision for a post-Trump future. When it comes to entertainment, repeatedly talking about Trump in every monologue runs the risk of catastrophising Trump to the point that you end up creating a climate of doom and that everything is so bad that there is no chance of changing direction. Then there is just plain exhaustion where one just wants to turn on the television and not have to deal with the world for a few hours – being able to enjoy some laughs without having to think about who is in the white house.

If people feel exhausted where they’re constantly bombarded with Trump then at some point they’re going to tune out – “I can’t deal with this” then switch off and disengage. For me it is about moderation in terms of news consumption because I know the more I doom scroll over the news the more depressed and angry I get so I limit myself to an hour or so checking out the news from my favourite sources and then I focus on something else for the day. It is about having a balance because being angry all the time isn’t healthy or beneficial in the long run because eventually it burns you out.

It appears things are getting better when it comes to Windows 11 on ARM (link) – it kind of helps when you tell developers that you don’t have to rewrite their whole application from scratch and forced to sell it through the Microsoft Store as with the case of Windows RT. When software support is a few tweaks and a recompile away it isn’t surprising that Adobe is expanding their product offering available for Windows 11 on ARM. I think Adobe realises that being stuck on a single platform isn’t a good place to be where as at least supporting Windows 11 on ARM give the opportunity for Windows on energy efficient laptops the ability to keep Apple in check as so far as their platform and not being dependent on them.

On a side note, funny the number of noise makers online complaining about how Windows 11 25H2 is a minor update. So let me get this straight, you complain when there are major updates with the risks associated with big changes and now you’re complaining that the updates aren’t big enough but preserve stability at the expense of functionality. Maybe I’m getting on with age but I would sooner have boring but predictable, Windows 11 and Samsung One UI vs whatever is happening over on Apple’s platforms at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if 26H2 ends up being the big release given how there is a big jump in build numbers every 2 years – it’ll probably include under the hood changes as well as pushing Windows App SDK forward along with replacing parts of the Windows 11 UI to bring dark mode and greater consistency and maybe seeing a long term plan where control panel becomes a component one can uninstall and remove from the system.