Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I was able to finish an hour early which was nice but I was hoping to be able to go for a walk tonight, getting back into a good routine, but alas it is raining outside. On a good side though I stuck to my diet plan for today so it isn’t as though I need to walk but rather I like the idea of going for a walk. I am always reminded of the saying “you can’t outrun a bad diet” so if I stick to a plan then it makes life easier and thus I’m not dependent on exercise to balance up the calories in and calories out if I’m already hitting the numbers I need to without the exercise.

I woke up this morning and there is a decent number of updates made available, the Tuesday update for November and it appears they have fixed the Task Manager bug that was remoted last week along with fixing a few bugs and security issues as well as some optimisations where I’ve noticed that it is slightly snappier. Chrome and Edge both received updates as well – no regressions for either one of them (I always clear the cookies and cache after doing an update) along with uBlock Origin Lite 2025.1110.1551 now available in the Chrome and Edge extension store for download. I haven’t noticed anything strange or unusual after installing the monthly update but then again my life is fairly simple and I avoid making changes to my system unless I know what I am doing so I kind of avoid many of the headaches mentioned online.

I’ve been having a look around at more information regarding 26H1 about it supporting newer silicon with the focus being around the new Qualcomm X2 SoC but I also think that part of the support will be for the Panther Lake SoC from Intel. At the moment we don’t have any details regarding what the architecture includes other than the sort of high level mentions in the recent presentations so we’ll need to wait until we get closer to the official release of it in products before we start seeing it in the Intel ARK database that’ll outline the extensions it includes, any sort of changes such as whether, if any at all, did they adopt the four agreed upon technologies mentioned in the x86 advisory group public statement made recently. The reason why I say this is because of FRED is included then it would require them to make changes on what happens below HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer abstracts away the underlying architectural differences so even if something like FRED changes how things work under the hood at the lowest levels then everything built upon HAL is oblivious to that change and just keeps working a long as it always does.

There is a new supermarket that has opened up in Upper Hutt called ‘Plenty Foods’ that I’ll have a look at next week on my day off to see how they compare to the big players. I really do hope that Costco and Aldi come to New Zealand – more specifically to Wellington because I’d be more than happy to do a months worth of shopping even if it means going over to Porirua if the prices are good and there is a reasonable selection. Aldi would be a great competitor because I’m not really someone who buys something because of the brand but whether it is good – if the supermarket brand is equal or better than the name brand but cheaper then I’ll go with that when I can.