Matisyahu's Blog

Final day of the week on Sunday with the added benefit that due to doing 2 1/2 hours worth of work on Friday I get to go home early on Sunday so I’ll be knocking off at 7:30pm. I’m probably going to head down to the supermarket afterwork because I need to purchase some butter and a few odd bits and pieces. Today was nice with not to many customer enquiries and in between I had a few cups of tea – I can see why mum and dad like having a cup of tea because of how refreshing it is not to mention it keeps me full in between meals so then I’m not tempted to snack thus making sticking to a good meal routine a whole lot easier.

It appears that Windows 11 26H2 will be based on the 28000 series that was announced on the Windows Insider Blog (link). It looks like 26H1 will have the underlying platform updated so it is ready to support new hardware however the new features won’t be visible until 26H2 which kind of makes sense given how there appears to be a lot of work in terms of refinement of the user interface such as dealing with the inconsistent nature of dark mode. It’ll be interesting to see whether the 28000 also includes support for the Panther Lake and Nova Lake architecture such as APX, FRED, tagged memory support along with a lot more. I wouldn’t be surprised if it did given that Microsoft and Intel work closely together so it would make sense that as they developed these technologies that Microsoft were implementing them as they went then provided feedback to Intel which helped moved the technology forward.

I find it funny that once again the political class and the noise makers in the media are trying to come up with some sort of complex analysis of what took place. What took place is that the anti-woke anti-DEI anti-CRT shtick has run its natural course – people are are tired, people just want things to go back to normal, where politicians talk about real issue such as the cost of living and not make believe scenarios that excite the lizard brain but have little to do with reality. The reason why the Democrats made gains against was because they focused on the ‘meat and potato’ issues – not abstract ideas but the real pocket book issues that people face or as Bill Clinton said, “it’s the economy, stupid!”. Every one of the candidates, whether they were moderate of democratic socialist talked about the bread and butter issues with the Republicans looking crazy as they dragged up conspiracy theories and culture war issues while the audience were looking at each other going “what on earth is going on here?!”

You can already see some politicians already making the move to a post-Trump future in much the same way that the compassionate conservatives became the tea party who then became MAGA and now those same politicians see a post-Trump future. When that post Trump future arrives it’ll be interesting to see whether the public remembers what they were like when they got into politics during the MAGA wave or whether, like how quickly Americans forgot in 2010 after the two wars and economic collapse two years earlier, will they vote for them again after they’ve rebranded themselves with the emergence of a new ‘movement’ that emergences from the ashes of MAGA.