Matisyahu's Blog

I got up this morning at around 10am then headed down to a cafe in Petone with mum for an eggs bene and a bowl of mochaccino and then I had a second one because why the heck no, life is too short not to have a treat on occasions. We then headed down to the supermarket to do some shopping for this week and next week (I want to avoid the craziness of the stores next week due to Christmas being on Thursday). With that being said, when Boxing Day sales come around on 26 December I’ll see what specials are available but I’ll be cautious given that like Black Friday there is a tendency for businesses to use it as an opportunity to offload out of date products. This is the reason I posted a while ago on BlueSky that always check the system specs before buying – a great deal may end up being not so great when you realise that the process included with he laptop is 3 years old, lacking RAM and the storage is extremely limited and slow.

One thing I am looking at is the possibility of purchasing are two Home Pods so then I can have a stereo setup and then I can switch between using them for my television or using them for my computer with the benefit of using wireless streaming. What is holding me back though is the possibility of seeing maybe a refresh or whether I would be better off looking at a more traditional speaker setup since I won’t be using the smart functionality other than the wireless streaming.

Ubiquiti have released a firmware up date for UniFi Access Point (U7-Pro-Max, U7-Lite, U7-Outdoor, U7-Pro-Wall, U7-Pro-XG, U7-Pro-XGS, U7-Pro-XG-Wall) to version 8.3.2 – I up dated the firmware now and then after it rebooted (this process can take 5-8 minutes) and found there haven’t been any regressions, a slight improvement in terms of 6GHz signal strength (I have 5GHz and 6GHz on the same SSID but the connection defaults to 6GHz). Although my laptop, desktop and Apple TV 4K are on WiFi 6E the benefit of the ‘E’ means it can connect to the 6GHz frequency where, at the moment, no one is currently using it so as a result there isn’t any interference not to mention support for 160MHz channels so the connection to my access point is close to 2Gbps which is a good speed when I’m wanting to through files around the local network (the access point has a 2.5Gbps backhaul capacity so it is highly unlikely I’ll find that a bottleneck).

It’ll be interesting to see whether a Safari Technology Preview 234 is released given that normally it is done a fortnightly cycle with the last release being done on 8 December so the next one would be around 22 or 23 December but then again that maybe too close to the Christmas break when many business shut down over the festive season thus leaving a skeleton crew to take care of any emergencies that may arise. The recent Safari Technology Preview 233 was pretty sparse which is inline with the Safari 26.3 and 26.3 beta that was released for the Apple platforms. In terms of progress, as of Safari 26.2 the compliance has improved immensely – Safari 26.1 was 66.6% and now Safari 26.2 is sitting at 98.3% so hopefully we’ll see Apple hit that 100% with the release of Safari 26.4 and the 26.4 update to the Apple platforms.