Matisyahu's Blog

Today I received a text message from my doctor regarding a routine blood test – I assume as a follow up to the previous two HbA1c tests to see that everything is going well. I received the message today so I followed up with the medical centre and they advisd me that it wasn’t majorly urgent but just a routine check to ensure everything is going well. What I’ll do is next week (or maybe the week after) pop into the testing place but this week I’ll be focusing on getting my sleeping and exercise schedule back into some sort of order along with sorting out out a meal schedule each day so then I have some sort of predictability (which is something I prefer). The new work schedule is 1:30pm to 10:00pm 5 days a week but there is plenty of time after finishing to go for a walk for a couple of hours however I am tempted to maybe get up at around maybe 11:30am then go for a quick one hour walk before work then at night after work I go for another walk so then I’m squeezing in a little bit more exercise along with the fact that a walk in the fresh air before work will wake me up so then I’m wide awake and ready for a day of fun and excitement.

Patch Tuesday is coming up soon and there are a few features being made available (link) and Windows 11 25H2 is in development with a goal of providing anticheat, end point detection and antivirus vendors a way to provide their services without having access to the kernel along with the administrator protection being worked on. Given how Microsoft has taken a much more conservative approach to announcing new features I wouldn’t be surprised that a list of changes in Windows 11 25H2 won’t appear until maybe a month or two before it is stabilised and the developers are confident that what they’ve being worked on is ready for the general public to use.

Ubiquiti has released via its early release channel UniFi Gateways 4.2.3 – I haven’t given a test since I need the gateway as rock solid as possible since I work from home. There is also UniFi OS for the cloudkey which is sitting at 4.3.x which has some neat stuff in store when it comes to filtering traffic such as content blocking (aka ad blocking). Will be interesting to see how well it performs but for me I tend to prefer having an extension because it allows me greater control over which websites I allow through vs the websites I leave content blocking on for because the website is that obnoxious. At one stage I was looking at the idea of getting an NAS device but decided that even if I did get it I would still want it backed up to the cloud so in the end it wasn’t going to end up replacing it but rather add another device to my network so I’ve decided just to stick to using Google Cloud.

I’ve been reading some more documentation about upcoming changes that Intel has instore for their future CPU designs with APX being a bit one (expands the number of general purpose registers from 16 to 32) with the benefits can be found outlined in this document (link). For me the big choice is whether for my laptop I get a Microsoft Surface, ASUS or a Dell but when it comes to the desktop do I build my own or do I just get something off the shelf from Dell. Personally I’m leaning towards an AMD self build along with an ASUS laptop but then again if I do go Intel then I’ll prefer either getting and AMD GPU or Intel GPU unless nVidia is going to offer something absolutely awesome.