Matisyahu's Blog

Rather than being a hermit on my day off I decided to get out of the house and head down to the store to have a look around, check out what iOS 26 is actually like rather than the early judgements I made which were based on screenshots and videos. I decided that, after much mulling over what I should do, that I went all in and decided to move back to the Apple ecosystem after giving Windows a good college try – I really wanted it to work but I’m so used to the way things work in the Apple world – everything is rather disjointed when trying to get the Google and Microsoft ecosystem to work nicely together.

I have to admit, I was hasty when I saw the whole Liquid Glass but I think the experience of being in the Windows ecosystem was a much needed wake up call to remind me that although I have my laundry list of issues to complain about that the issues pale in comparison to what the alternative is. I bought an iPhone 17 Pro Max, Apple TV 4K and a MacBook Pro 16″ however I ordered a Mac mini, keyboard, touchpad and monitor online because Apple was having a Black Friday/cyber Monday specials so that’ll be arriving in the next few days (I’ve ordered a Snakehive case for my phone because I like having a nice leather case). On a side note, although it doesn’t have the latest and greatest chip in it, it does have WiFi 6E which means it supports 6GHz that my access point broadcasts so it is getting a decent amount of bandwidth along with good latency.

Today was fine weather so I was able to combine a good amount of walking in during the day, taking the bus to Courtenay place then walking back to the train station not to mention the walking around Lower Hutt between the the various parts of the city has I compared prices etc. Before heading off I put my groceries away – I’m all set for the coming week with everything I need which should make life pretty easy. On Friday I’ve got the company Christmas party so I’ll jump on the train and getting back home should be pretty easy given that they have a late night service even after midnight.

On a side note, I saw a video entitled “Why American Capitalism FAILED The Working Class” – sorry to be the bearer of bad news but capitalism is working as intended and what we see regarding the concentration of capital and the massive disparity between rich and poor is by design not by accident. It is always interesting when you can see someone get so close to ‘getting it’ but something stops them from getting to the conclusion that the solution is to replace capitalism with a entirely new system rather than the endless tweaking that always ends up resulting in new problems that are sometimes even worse than the problem that was attempting to be fixed.