I thought I may as well add do another post before I head off to bed. Today was a good day in terms of sticking to my diet – one thing I made sure of this week was making sure that I had a good variety of food at home which avoids being tempted to sneak off down the road mid week or getting groceries delivered which ends up leading to buying stuff I probably don’t need. I guess it is one of those things where you’re on a uphill battle fighting against a life time of bad habits but that being said there is the balance of ensuring that life isn’t some sort of death march where every day is miserable and there is nothing worth looking forward to.
Things are going well with using Chrome and Google Workspace so I don’t think I’ll ever change to Microsoft 365. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of the whole bringing Android to the laptop – I have a feeling that what we’ll see is Android with desktop mode simply being the mode it automatically boots to, the same mode that you see with Samsung phones and DeX where you can use it like a desktop computer. What will also be interesting is whether we’ll see Android desktop box like how there were Chrome box because I am reminded of the Qualcomm X2 launch and some of the mini pc designs that were being shown at their demonstration booth. Could we see a Qualcomm X2 based desktop running Android? I imagine we could but it’ll be interesting to see whether Google opens up Chrome for Android to support extensions given that the business I work for relies on extensions as part of the work flow such as using 1Password to store passwords (or in my case, if I were to have a desktop I’d want to be able to utilise uBlock Origin Lite).
On the topic of uBlock Origin Lite, there has been a release of 2025.1116.1841 and funny enough it appeared on the Apple App Store before anywhere else then followed by Edge but we’re still waiting on it to appear in the Chrome store. On the topic of Apple, I’ve updated mum’s phone to 18.7.2 but what I’ve decided to do is wait until 26.2 is released before updating because although I’ve heard a good amount of praise regarding the stability of 26.1 I’d sooner wait until 26.2 then make the switch after seeing what the final ends up turning out like (so far Zollotech on YouTube has given Apple releases a good amount of coverage – he goes into the minutia and picks up things that most reviewers will gloss over although it would be nice if he spent some time testing Safari since it is a heavily used bundled application).
I’ve been following Webkit development and how things are going when it comes to Web Platform Tests (WPT) and based on the latest Safari Technology Preview it appears that there is a sizeable amount of progress (from what I understand there is work on creating a WPT but for extensions which should mean that getting Safari into compliance with the MV3 should be made a whole lot easier – being able to pick up compliance/compatibility bugs while building up the functionality) but it’ll be interesting to see how quickly they’ll make it available in their stable release given that if you do a comparison between stable releases, Safari still lags behind Chrome in terms of getting those features shipped to end users.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the Apple M5 product refresh – rumours about it being in March next year or maybe later on but I don’t see it being launched any time soon given how close it is to Christmas (generally if they are going to do a product launch for Christmas it would already be made available). It’ll be interesting to see whether they include the new N1 chip as part of it because it has many benefits but then again I’m in no hurry – at this rate I could easily wait until maybe the iPhone 18 where it is rumoured that they’ll be move their whole product range over to their inhouse mobile chip – a C2X along with a N2 networking chip.
- Roast lamb with roast vegetables – lots of gravy then followed by a hearty desert such as a stick date pudding with custard or ice dream.
- Buttered chicken, rogan josh or tikka masala with garlic naan or roti along with basmati rice.
- Doner kebab – either lamb or chicken, with lots of salad, spicy sauce and for desert nothing beats baklava.
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