Matisyahu's Blog

At the half way point of my shift but I am feeling good – third day of getting back on track. I have to admit, the first few days were pretty difficult but on the third day I’m feeling pretty good and I’m sure that as the days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months that it’ll become a lot easier.

I checked my email before going to bed last night and I received confirmation that the clothes I have ordered have been shipped. It is amazing how connected the world is because the clothes I purchased are coming all the way from Jordan and being couriered all the way down to New Zealand. It is something that for young people (younger than myself) who grew up in a time where the internet and buying stuff from overseas being the norm now take for granted where as when I was growing up the whole process was pretty laboured thus most people avoided it if they could. Once it arrives I’ll have another look at their catalogue to see what else I can buy because unfortunately it is closing down and their clothes are the style of clothing I like along with being good quality and at a reasonable price.

I opened up my Microsoft Surface Laptop with an ARM chip and Qualcomm has released an update to their GPU driver however it isn’t a major update. After installing the driver update I was hoping that maybe it would be updated to WDDM 3.2 but unfortunately it is still stuck at WDDM 3.1, I haven’t done any benchmarks regarding the improvements but I have a feeling that because ARM is more geared towards battery life over absolute raw performance I’m sure any improvement will come about through balancing performance and battery life. On a side note, the ARM based laptops running Windows are a great device if you’re mainly using Microsoft Office and web based applications via Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.