Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I’m feeling a lot better and will be heading back to work next week on Wednesday where I’ll be working Wednesday and Thursday then on Friday I fly up to Auckland for the weekend for my grandma’s memorial service where the family will get together. I’ve got my overnight bag sorted out but I’m still deciding whether I should be lazy and just get an uber to the airport or do I just grab the train into Wellington then the bus to the airport.

On Monday the Snakehive case for my Pixel 9 Pro XL will arrive and once that is on the phone I’ll be happy to take it with me when I leave the house – yes, I’m overly paranoid about dropping it but having experienced the screen replacement bill it is something I don’t want to repeat again. Once I’ve got that sorted I’m going to then send away the 4 Airtags that I sold then I’ll order the Chipolo 4 pack and get them all set up (organise delivery Monday the following week).

I’ve got Kodi installed on the Google TV Streamer meaning that I can watch TVNZ and Three without having to download their app and then setup an account. I tend to watch PBS Newshour for international news but I’ll tune into TVNZ News along with RNZ when I need to catch up with domestic news. One thing I have noticed is how it is much more responsive than the Chromecast with Google TV that I tried a year ago. So far the Google TV Streamer is very responsive – it appears that Google has spent a lot of time optimising Android TV and rumour has it that the next release will be Android TV 16 based on Android 16.

The next update for the Ubiquiti Dream Machine – UnIFi 4.1.13 which is currently a release candidate and normally if there are no show stoppers it gets released a week or so later but if there are issues that pop up then they’ll fix them, release another beta then see how things work out from there. Hopefully the release will address a few issues regarding secure DNS, latency on the internet connection and a few other things.