Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken

Post by StreamBright » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 10:14 AM UTC

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And it boots with the GPU which is not 3D accelerated in version 4 because the whole project was done by one person who just left. This is one of most popular SBCs out there. I wish it was a bit better.

Are there any high performance single-board computers on the market currently? I use a lot of Rpi's in personal projects, and I've been thinking about a home file server in a super small form-factor. What I would like is an SBC somewhere on the size scale of a smartphone, with performance in the range of a current flagship phone. Does something like this exist?

Post by Benjamin_Dobell » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

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Does Big Sur let you loopback audio out yet, or are third-party extensions still required? Do Soundflower & BlackHole even work on M1? The fact there hasn't been native loopback for so long is mind-boggling. I'm a Mac user and use BlackHole. I've lost count of the number of times I've been on a call and someone with a Mac has gone to share screen and been confused as to why their audio isn't being shared. COVID/WFH h…

> Does Big Sur let you loopback audio out yet, or are third-party extensions still required? Do Soundflower & BlackHole even work on M1? How is that relevant to a discussion about worsening software quality? OS X never had native loopback.

Post by xodice » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 11:39 AM UTC

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Honestly, it's easy to hate on Apple, but you start to appreciate macOS once you have to use Windows or Linux for anything serious. Yes, there is no good desktop OS, but macOS sucks the least, and by far.

I think that is just your opinion, and not objective truth. I am a happy debian user, currently forced to use macOS at my current company, and can't say I have a great time developping on a mac. As a web developper, Linux is great: native docker, native linux terminal experience... I however think this is a personnal opinoin, and I won't argue that Linux is better that macOS. If I has been a macOS user from the start…

Post by simondotau » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 11:53 AM UTC

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You can't compare these two markets. Whether or not these chips work well comes down to firmware and drivers, and every customer gets their own custom datasheet, firmware, and driver. If you hack that into something good, your product will be good. (You're going to need to fix a lot of code and of course have a lot of meetings. Worth it if you're selling a million units, I suppose.) If you just buy some chips off the…

Dell is also following the first route and they shipped a PC(alienware) with shitty broadcom drivers(that was a 4yrs ago). I have avoided broadcom ever since..

Post by daat678 » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

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Would you have a link or article discussing this Marconi project? I’m always interested in Apple’s wireless chips designs. A web search brings me back to this thread.

https://gist.github.com/woachk/943828f37c14563a607a26116435b... includes some tiny tidbits on it. The firmware can be extracted out of an IPSW/OTA download, where it is present in the Firmware directory.