Next week will be a 6 day week so I’ll be making sure I get a good amount of sleep on Sunday and Monday so I’m all prepared for a long week. I was going to make a grocery order online on Sunday night but I decided to do it Saturday so then it guarantees that I have a delivery window on Monday where as if I left it until Sunday there is a good chance that I’ll have to go through the drama of heading down to the road myself and have to battle with the crowds etc that I’d prefer avoiding.
After finishing work I opened up my laptop and noticed that Microsoft has made available a software update for the Surface Laptop 7 (link) – the install was pretty quick but that is probably because it was downloading in the background so then by the time I did a restart most of the work was already one. Microsoft Edge has been updated to version 142 and I haven’t noticed any regressions however there is a preview available of the next update for Windows there have been reports of regressions so I am hoping that Microsoft is working on getting that fixed before it appears on patch Tuesday (normally the second Tuesday of the month) but according to the preview notes they have acknowledged the problem (link).
One thing I have noticed is that the desktop on Dell I’ve been eyeing up for the last couple of months has dropped by $200 which was probably the result of Intel cutting prices in preparation of the Arrow Lake refresh. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next few months particularly as more information regarding Panther Lake is known – I could imagine some of the mini pc vendors are getting ready to release a refresh of their line up with the new processors. There is also the new Qualcomm based devices next year which will be interesting to see whether we see some mini pcs make an appearance to give Apple a bit of competition.
There are quite a few interesting things that the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group are working on – the standardising on feature sets (link) but also I noticed there is work being done regarding firmware unification (link). A lot of what is mentioned in the link should be pretty much transparent to the operating system on top but it should hopefully produce a more reliable experience over all because engineers aren’t having to reinvent the wheel. It is funny how it has taken this long for this sort of thing to happen but I guess it is the old story of ‘better late than never’. Here is an interesting article regarding what AMD is doing (link) – it is amazing amount of interesting things happening that are given very little coverage unless one is out there looking for it.
Ubiquiti has released some early release and release candidates over the last few days – MLO on access points appear to be getting a good amount of attention, the gateways are being bought almost up to date with the cloud based gateways (it is a bit confusing but the non-cloud ones rely on either the cloud or a cloud key where as the cloud based gateway have the software built in). For me everything has been working rock solid but then again I don’t have a complicated setup – it is just me, this laptop, my work laptop, Google Streamer and nothing else so it isn’t as though it is a massively complicate setup.
My favourite websites include Arstechnica, Reddit, YouTube, WordPress, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, along with Radio NZ and a few news websites internationally. I like to keep up to date with the news but at the same time with all the craziness and chaos on the world I try avoid getting too fixated on the news because it is easy to get stuck in a doom spiral and having ones anxiety being raised as a result. It’s good to keep up to date to be remain informed but at the same time there is a limited to zero impact if all one does is fixate on the constant doom and gloom that the news so readily reports on.
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