Matisyahu's Blog

End of a long week and it couldn’t have come sooner. I clocked off from work and I decided that on my day off I’m going to have a lazy weekend with minimal effort on my part. I jumped onto Woolworths to order groceries for the coming week and then the next week so then I’m all set and not having to worry about having to go down the road then carrying a weeks worth of groceries home on the bus. When it comes to milk, I’ll pick it up from the local store which is a small walk down the road but for the big shop I go to the supermarket since it is the best value for money. The other benefit of buying it online is that it is easier to stick to a budget and a meal plan because rather than aimlessly browsing I go onto the website, add to the cart only what I need and then buy it – no temptation of picking up things ‘I might need’ but I really don’t actually need.

Something that slipped under the radar was another build of Windows 11 26220 (link) with the ‘Proactive Memory Diagnostics’ after a crash looks particularly interesting which lines up with the announcement made a few months ago about a renewed focus on reliability, security etc. It’ll be interesting to see how providing that information to Microsoft will improve the reliability of Windows and how they will work with third parties given that I wouldn’t be surprised if a third party software is causing part of the problem then that said organisation will need to be bought into the loop to get the issue resolved. The other feature I’ve been tracking is the ‘Administrator Protection’ but at the moment there are still many things that need address such as the UI dialogue isn’t working all that great (based on a YouTube video I saw by the creator ‘Tech Based’) so I wouldn’t be surprised if it is something we may not see until 26H2 which would give Microsoft enough time to polish the feature along with getting third parties to ensure their software works as it should.

It is funny how I’ve been using Windows 11 for 3-4 months and everything has been rock solid on my Microsoft Surface Laptop (ARM based). Although I have flirted with the idea of giving Office 365 a try what I am going to do is stay with Google Workspace since that is what I am familiar with, Android integrates with it well and the Google Drive app on Windows is actually fairly good not to mention Chrome also works well too.