Matisyahu's Blog

I decided for the couple of days off that I would just enjoy the fine art of doing nothing – just relaxing at home watching a few tv series, pop down to to the supermarket to pick up some groceries for the week. Part of the groceries included getting a variety of meal options which will make eating less of a miserable experience but one where if I feel like something different than the usual I can go for that instead of eating then not feeling satisfied. I bought a variety of soups, tuna and some chargrilled capsicum, some granola bars that I can break up on the chia seeds and yoghurt. On Wednesday I’ll get back into walking but tonight I’m going to relax.

I was watching the latest episode of Foundation – if you haven’t started watching it yet then you’re definitely missing out on a great show. I’m also watching Invasion, another great Apple Original (I’m making use of a three month free trial I got when I bought an Apple TV 4K) – I’m currently watching the second episode of the third season and things are going well. I haven’t watched a movie in quite a while because I like how modern tv series feel like an extended movie over several episodes where ideas and characters are explored – a side narrative that feels irrelevant at the time but then in a later episode it links back into the main narrative thus making the reason for its existence make sense.

I had dinner with mum tonight after grocery shopping – picking up some ingredients for dinner; a potato and kumara mash with chives and sour cream, an onion and mushroom gravy with some oven cooked sausages. It has been a while since I last had it but it felt good having a home cooked meal and then we rounded it off with a slice of carrot cake and some black doris plum flavoured greek yoghurt on the side. It it always good to catch up with mum – something I regret was that I didn’t spend the time when I had it when dad was still alive. I guess it takes the loss of a loved one to appreciate what one has.

While mum was around I checked for updates on her iPhone where there was the option to download and install iOS 18.7 or iOS 26 so I decided to install iOS 18.7 mainly because I want to wait until 26.1 is released before making the upgrade. This is also the the reason I’m looking at seeing what happens with macOS 26.1 given how there are plenty of people talking about bugs relating to the UI and other components not fixed in the public release. There is also the rumoured product refresh in October 2025 which will be interesting to see whether the refresh includes a M5 update for not only the MacBook family but also the Mac mini – if there is a refresh that is the result then the possibility of going in that direction is open to me.

Just on a side note, over on the Webkit website there is an overview of the changes in Safari 26 (link), it’ll be interesting to see what changes, fixes and improvements are in store for Safari 26.1 that weren’t ready for the public release of Safari 26. If macOS 15.1 is anything to go by I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up seeing a macOS 26.1 release in around October and then 26.2 just before Christmas with macOS 26.1 being preloaded on any sort of hardware refresh that is rumoured to occur in October.

As for my decision, I’m still leaning towards the Dell computer – although it isn’t the bleeding edge the reality is that for what I need it for I really don’t need the bleeding edge. I’m looking at GMKtec and Beelink but I’m cautious about taking a change given that there is no local support if anything goes wrong and sending it back to China would be rather costly if it turns out that I end up getting a lemon where as with a Dell there is local support.