Matisyahu's Blog

Today was uneventful at work although the last couple of hours were pretty busy dealing with customer enquiries and one particular customer who thought if they argued their case that I could some how do the impossible. With that being said, I finished the day off and went for a small walk – kept a record of my calorie intake so that I hit a deficit and the walk is an icing on the cake. Something weird I noticed when I started my walk was a small fire in a tree out the front of a persons house, I tried knocking on their door but I got no response so I ran back home, filled up a bucket with water and put it out and when I came back from my walk I rang up the non-emergency line to report the incident. I’m unsure whether it was an overreaction but I thought it would be best to give the police a heads up because I thought it was kind of weird.

So far I’m enjoying my Surface laptop but the one thing I noticed was the silly default power management default settings out of the box. In the Settings app under power management the defaults are set to, while plugged in, the screen turns off after 5 minutes and the the computer suspends after 5 minutes. This is rather silly particularly if you’re synchronising your music to your phone with the end result being every time you go off to let the computer complete the synchronisation the computer is put to sleep because for some reason the computer doesn’t pick up that transferring fills is activity. Long story short I’ve set it so that the screen turns off after 30 minutes but the computer never turns off – if I want to turn it off I’ll close my lid and let it go to sleep.

I’m looking at getting a Dell Tower Plus with the following specs:

And paired up with a Dell UltraSharp 32 4K Thunderbolt Hub Monitor – U3225QE which is good drop in replacement for the Apple Studio monitor that came with the Mac Studio (which I’ve since sold as well). With grunty specs like that I’ll get back into some gaming, video and audio work as well. I’m still making a decision to either get that or a Beelink GTR9 Pro AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 which looks better value and I’ll match it up with a monitor, keyboard and mouse bought from my local retailer. I’ve fired off an email and hopefully I’ll find out what 35 days means – 35 days from the announcement or 35 days from the time I place the order. Worst case scenario if I am mucked around I’ll go with Dell – they may not be exciting but they’re reliable.