I’m happily relaxing after a busy day and the day started off well with confirmation that I’ve got 5 December off for my work Christmas party which avoids me having to finish late on Thursday, wake up early on Friday after barely having a decent night sleep and then by the time the party comes around I’m more or less a zombie. Then I think closed to a week and a bit later I’ve got two weeks off over Christmas where I can relax and hang out with the family along with enjoying my summer. Next year though I am looking at having a week off in the first couple of weeks in June where I can spend time watching WWDC and seeing what the future has in store for the Apple ecosystem.
The product refresh in October was a bit of a let down but if history is anything to go by we might see a refresh of the Mac mini maybe in November and then maybe the MacBook Air in around March next year. I was a bit disappointed that they hadn’t adopted the WiFi 7 standard yet but then again 6E is good enough for most end users so maybe that is the reason why there isn’t the pressure to update the WiFi chip in the MacBook Pro but then again that could change with a refresh of other Mac devices.
Ubiquiti has released an early release of UniFi Gateway software version 4.4.5 – it makes me wonder whether they’re slowly bringing UniFi Gateway software into sync with the rest of the product family. There was also an early release update available for the U7 access point which addresses a MLO issue (keeping in mind that MLO is still in early access) which makes me wonder whether we’ll see an increasing focus being made on getting MLO out of being an early access feature to something that can be considered stable enough for wide spread mainstream adoption. For me, I find that the availability of 6GHz and 5GHz already does a pretty good in terms of bandwidth available along with the connection being pretty stable.
Microsoft Edge had an update in the morning when I got up which updated it from Version 141.0.3537.92 to Version 141.0.3537.99 – installed the update and everything is working well. It is funny how just a few years ago back in the days of WIndows 10 that Microsoft put a lot of effort into their own EdgeHTML engine but quickly realised that addressing the laundry list of compatibility issues, both what they can control and websites that would break with EdgeHTML (but funny enough the website would work if you changed the user agent to Chrome), was a losing battle so it wasn’t surprising that they embraced Chromium given that there were very few advantages spending so much resources that could be better spent on building upon Chromium the integration into Microsoft services and improving those services particularly for their paying customers.
My favourite form of physical exercise is the 11.6km walk I go for every night. It takes around 1 hour and 50 minutes but the main focus isn’t burning calories but it is about getting out of the house after work, being able to have a look around the neighbourhood to see any changes that are taking place as well as mentally unwinding from having to deal with customers – many of whom seem to schedule a time to ring us up because they’re lonely and want someone to talk to.
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