Matisyahu's Blog

I decided I needed to get out of the house after being stuck in day all yesterday – I went down the road and popped into the local bakery in the mall for a cheese and onion toasted sandwich, a piece of carrot cake and a mochachino. I had a look around the mall, checked out a few things and then walked home which is around 3.5km – got home then a few hours later I went for my usual 8km or so walk I do every night then had a bowel of mushroom soup to warm me up. I’m making progress but I guess I’ve hit that plateau where the ‘easy weight’ has fallen off and now it is the last few kilos that’ll take the longest but I’m in no rush and would sooner just take my time and make sure that when the weight comes off it stays off rather than yo-yo dieting of losing weight and it coming back on just as quickly (if not quicker).

Leaks of the Pixel 10 have been making the round – it appears that Google has stuck with the existing design but the hardware specs have been updated. Personally I think that if you find something that works that you may as well stick with it rather than just changing for the sake of changing. One thing to keep in mind is that with Android 16 there will be two updates – the release of Android 16 and a bigger update towards the end of the year where there is much talk about it shipping the features that weren’t ready for the Android 16 release but not really big enough to justify a new version number along with the fact that Google probably wants to get it out to consumers. The whole ‘two releases’ may end up becoming a trend to future releases where the base is stabilised and then more features are released later on with bug fixes for the base included. I think the big one I’m looking forward to is Android TV 16 given that that are references to the use of a 64bit kernel which makes me wonder whether we’ll see the Google Streamer shipping today will be reduced in price to become the entry device then a new Google Streamer will be released when Android TV 16 is released which will be their ‘premium’ version that’ll complete with Apple TV.