Matisyahu's Blog

Keeping on track with the third day going for a walk – I decided to spice it up a bit and change where I walked tonight. It is good to make changes so then it isn’t the same old same old. Taking each day at a time and set goals that are achievable rather than having massive aspirations, fail to achieve them and then feel bad about not achieving those goals that weren’t really all that attainable. It is about finding a middle ground, moderation if you will, rather than swinging from one extreme to another – from binge to austerity then binge again, attempting to undo a lifetime of bad habits and conditioning but reprogramming oneself is easier said that done.

Samsung has released the November 2025 update for their S25 Ultra – the size is around 569.89MB and it took only a couple of minutes or so to download then install. After rebooting I checked for the October 2025 Google Play Services update but nothing came through – stuck on September 2025 but then again an update may come in the next few days so I guess I’ll need to wait and see what happens. The kernel has been updated where it has the same linux 6.6.77 kernel which indicates to me that there weren’t major updates other than security fixes. One UI 8.5 is being worked on at the moment with reports that it’ll be based on Android 16 QPR2 with the focus by Samsung to bring about a release schedule that’ll line up with the Android QPR (Quarterly Platform Release) schedule.

In a follow up to the post I made yesterday about the fall out regarding the whole ‘agentic OS’ fiasco, Microsoft responds in the only way out of touch silicon valley types can respond – telling end users that they’re ignorant rubes who don’t understand how wonderful their vision for the future is. At this point they sound like religious zealots convincing you that they have the truth and the reason you don’t accept it isn’t because what they’re telling you as a load of crap but rather because some super natural force is stopping your from accepting it.

All I can say is this, Apple must be pretty happy right about now knowing they’ve side stepped the whole unfolding situation in the AI world (or more specifically the LLM segment of the AI market) but then again Apple put out a white paper note too long ago regarding the limitations with the LLM approach. I can’t help but get the feeling that when Apple makes a entrance in the AI world it’ll be off the back off a new approach – meanwhile they can pay Google for their Gemini model, improve Siri and take their time so then at least using Gemini will mean they won’t lag behind the competition.