A good first day to the reboot of my routine – I had my breakfast with the chia seed and unsweetened yoghurt and funny enough I didn’t miss the sweetness. I have a feeling that if I do it for a few weeks it’ll become the ‘new normal’ as it is embedded into my daily routine. I am tempted next week to pick up some eggs which can be a light meal if I am feeling hungry – throw in some vegetables along with some grated cheese which is an easy way to get protein and vegetables into ones diet.
uBlock Origin Lite 2025.1019.1656 has finally appeared in the Chrome store and it has updated both of my profiles (Google Workspace and Gmail dot com account) – both are working great and doing a good job at blocking content. As I’ve said in the past, I was sceptical at first regarding whether the MV3/DNR work get to the level of content blocking that their MV2 extension did but I’ve been happily proven wrong. AdGuard for Safari appears to be getting a bit of an overhaul with the announcement that they’re dropping support for macOS 11 and older. It’ll be interesting to see whether they will make use of the native content blocking API as part of macOS or whether they’ll bring their AdGuard for Safari codebase inline with the MV3 version they have available for Chrome which would reduce the amount of duplication taking place but then again it would mean dropping support for versions of macOS that don’t support Safari 18.6 or greater.
I’ve been watching some more videos regarding Panther Lake and the one thing I did find particularly interesting was in this video:
The Part that was interesting is the Darkmont efficiency cores where the same architecture is used for the E-Cores and the LP E-Cores which makes me wonder whether the rumour of Intel going back to a single architecture based around their E-Core architecture is actually true given that it appears they’ve spent a lot of time on improving the E-Core architecture so that rather than starting at the P-Core it appears the goal is to start processes on the LP E-Core and then move up from there when required so that the E-Core is as efficient as possible so that most of the time processes stay on that and the P-Core is only fired up when there really is a task so demanding it needs to moved to the P-Core.
For me, I’m interested in seeing the advances made by the x86 advisory group and how quick both AMD and Intel adopt the agreed upon standards so then developers aren’t stuck in this situation of “well, I’d love to support feature x but it isn’t widely adopted” resulting in improvings taking ages to be adopted and putting the x86 platform at a disadvantage when compared to the advances that ARM are making. There are four standards that both Intel and AMD have agreed upon (link) however there is no time line in terms of when they’ll be adopted but I’m guessing it may not be until maybe Nova Lake or when there is the rumoured unified architecture which would kind of make sense if the existing architecture is the ‘end of the road’ for their whole E-Core and P-Core being different architectures.
There were three careers I was looking at before I started working where I am. The first one was being a baking apprenticeship however I couldn’t find a business offering them. The second was to be a chef but like the baking apprenticeship there were no businesses around offering them. The third one was being a high school teacher however the requirement is that you have to have two papers (level 200 and level 300) in teachable subjects. Yeah, I know it is rather silly given that a Degree in Religious Studies and Philosophy should allow me to teach any humanities subject like history, social studies, geography etc. but alas those are the requirements. The only other option is maybe teaching at intermediate or primary school – if push came to shove I’d be ok with teaching intermediate kids but I don’t want to deal with kids younger than 12-13 years old because then I’ve gone from being a teacher to being a baby sitter.
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