Matisyahu's Blog

The weekend has finally arrived – finished work today then went for my nightly walk and picked a couple of sandwiches for dinner then came back home, watched some videos while eating dinner. It was a long week but I think this coming week will be a lot easier – getting back into the routine of going for a walk each night. After having not doing it for almost two weeks can be difficult because the temptation of doing nothing is a lot stronger than my desire to want to exercise but that being said I like the benefits that come from regular exercise.

Qualcomm has release a control panel (you’ll need to install the latest .NET runtime because it depends on it) which also includes the ability to update the GPU driver (link) which has a slight performance improvement although WDDM 3.2 isn’t supported. It’ll be interesting to see whether with the release of the Qualcomm X2 whether there will be a GPU driver upgrade that’ll cover both the X and X2 – I guess we’ll need to see what happens when the laptops start shipping next year which is the rumoured time which falls inline with the release of Windows 11 26H2 where new hardware support is added (it’ll be interesting to see whether the release of Panther Lake will result in FRED support being added to the Windows NT Kernel/HAL).

When it comes to politics I tend to avoid hopium (like copium but for hope) because all too often the narrative in the media tends to not be reflective of the mood out in the real world. There is a lot of stories in the media regarding the impact of Trump’s policies, the negative impact of those policies but I can’t help but get the feeling we’ve been here before when John Kerry ran for president and a lot of noise in the media about how unpopular George W Bush was but as we all know he was voted in for a second term. As cliched as it sounds, the only poll that matters is on election day (in the mid terms) because that shows not only the number of people who are unhappy (or happy) with the status quo but also how much of the population is motivated (either by anger or support for the status quo) to turn out to vote.

On a side note, I find it funny how the liberal pundits are twisting themselves into a pretzel trying to explain away Zohran Mamdani’s win in the election – it is amazing how these people must get paid to avoid the most obvious explanation in favour of coming up with long winded excuses. The simple fact of the matter is that Zohran Mamdani won because he talked about the ‘meat and potatoes’ issues, the ‘bread and butter’ issues, the kitchen table and pocket book issues. If there is something that Democrats need to take away from Zohran Mamdani’s win that can be taken nationally it is the laser focus on the issues that matter to people regardless of their background – don’t get bogged down in boutique identity politics issues and push back when Republicans try to change the topic back to culture wars by dragging the conversation back to ‘meat and potatoes’ issues that matter to the overwhelming majority of the electorate.