Mathew McBride

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I move 1's and 0's around | Networking hardware and software at traverse dot com dot au | electronics, software and telecoms commentary. | Symphonic metal fan, Germanophile, #avgeek
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Mathew McBrideOct 23
I've changed ISPs from AussieBB to Neptune (on the way to 2Gbit). Their customer portal has a feature that outputs the interface config ('show interface TenGigabitEthernetX/X/X') on their BNG. I think I'm having a nerdgasm! Some of the other options are nice-to-have's too...
Mathew McBrideJul 23, 2025
LOL, Qatar Airways Starlink bans (via DNS NXDOMAIN) reddit and mastodon.social. But PPRuNe (Professional Pilots Rumor Network, famously banned by their neighbors in the UAE) is not. On the other hand, 9/10 IPv6 according to test-ipv6.com! About 1h30m from Perth we are still routing through the Perth PoP.
Mathew McBrideJan 5, 2025

Could I use Windows-on-Arm for daily productivity? Mostly...

✅ Firefox
✅ VLC*
✅ LibreOffice*
✅ Tortoise Git*
✅ VSCode*
☑️ Nextcloud
☑️ KeePassX
☑️ Altium Designer 2025

(the last three are emulated)

Altium struggles when editing large projects, it would be OK for on-the-road work but I could not use this a a daily driver.

* project website defaults to x86-64 install. As far as I can tell, both Edge and Firefox use the same user-agent for x86-64 and arm64, so it can't be detected browser side!

Show threadMathew McBrideJan 5, 2025
WSL2 can use the full contingent of cores. I'll throw some Linux kernel compiles at it...
Show threadMathew McBrideJan 5, 2025

So Hyper-V On Arm64 and standard Linux does not play nice [right now]😭 It appears to be a regression in the latest W11/Hyper-V version (24H2), as there are plenty of reports of it working correctly before.

Linux will not boot when the VM has more than 1 vCPU configured (ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1dmzpzt/comment/lt6xtop/ ) .

Even on a single core, it feels a slow, apparently there are timer related changes in the WSL2 kernel ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1dmzpzt/comment/m5bqgrm/ )

Show threadMathew McBrideJan 5, 2025
Obligatory CPU-Z shots
Show threadMathew McBrideJan 5, 2025
A new CPU architecture is not enough to prevent the spread of pre-loaded crapware (McAffe) :( Otherwise, only a very small number of non-Arm64 processes out of the box
Mathew McBrideJan 5, 2025
I scored a new Snapdragon laptop from Lenovo's outlet store for AU$799 (RRP ~AU$1500). Let's see what Snapdragon can do! I'm very keen to test out Arm64 HyperV and booting Linux on it.
(Lenovo/DHL even delivered it on a Sunday. That's how desperate they are to get rid of these things 😆)
Mathew McBrideJun 24, 2024
My Glasgow finally arrived, I forgot I actually ordered one until the shipping notification came up! Hopefully, I'll find a problem I can tackle with it soon..
Mathew McBrideApr 27, 2024
jwzApr 27, 2024

The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
https://jwz.org/b/ykPi

The Millennial CAPTCHA

This is really well done: