Matisyahu's Blog

macOS 14 has been released today and I’ve done a clean install on both my MacBook Air and Mac Studio – so far things are very stable, Safari is performing well, AdGuard Safari Extension is working, over all the experience is a lot smoother than previous releases which goes back to a post I made too long ago that the work being done on Vision OS in terms of reducing the latency in regards to responsiveness of the UI probably has resulted in a lot of under the hood technology being shared between the platforms resulting in macOS becoming more responsive as a result. For a more exhaustive review Arstechnica has a great article that goes into a lot more detail than I could ever do (link).

Well, part of my ‘getting my finances sorted out’ has been cutting back on all the nonessential spending – do I like Chrome? sure, but spending NZD$21.60 for a Google Workspace account make sense? I’ve cancelled YouTube Premium – do I enjoy having an ad free service? sure but when I can save NZD$17.99 then I’ll take the savings. Long story short, like many at the moment, the focus is on belt tightening and reducing debt but hopefully won’t be something that is permanent when things get back to normal.