Matisyahu's Blog

Finished work tonight and went for a walk – it felt good that the weather is finally getting warmer with the temperature at 12°C and during the day it was around 16°C. It is great that the weather isn’t too hot or too cold so I’ll enjoy the Spring weather until summer comes but then again it’s not too bad given that I go walking at 10am so it avoid the summer time heat that would still be quite prevalent at 8pm (back when I did an 11:30am to 8:00pm shift). I’m at the moment sticking to a consistent 11.6km every night rather than going to crazy and wearing myself out – I need to remind myself that life isn’t a sprint but a marathon.

Chrome 140 had an update made available today which updated it from 140.0.7339.186 to 140.0.7339.208 with there being a few serious security holes that needed fixing so if you’re on the old version I’d suggest you get yourself updated to the latest version. On a side note, I’ve decided to stick with Google Workspace because the integration the integration with Android is a lot better and on Windows once you uninstall OneDrive and Microsoft Office (that came with Surface) then install Chrome and Google Drive then things work pretty good. I really do wish that the preinstallation of OneDrive was an option rather than something forced upon end users.

I was reading about the Intel-nVidia announcement and it makes me wonder whether part of that has to do with potentially Intel maybe bidding to making the next generation of consoles or offering a viable alternative to the current AMD APUs that are very popular in handhelds. I also wonder whether we’ll see Microsoft maybe licence the XBox software system to third parties so that eventually Microsoft get out of the hardware business entirely to just focus on software and cloud services then leave it up to third parties to develop the hardware. Not much information is known but it appears that Intel is going to keep it’s own line for the low to medium end along with niche markets in the high end with the Intel-nVidia for gamers and those who make extensive use of the CUDA software stack.