Notes from bench-testing the Quectel RM500U-EA on tower, bought to
eventually replace stream's Virgin Media WAN. Like the switches and
APs, the module is configured out-of-band and is not referenced by
the flake.
Records what it takes to connect at all: the module must be switched
from its stock NCM composition to MBIM, since under NCM the PDP
context activates but the cdc_ncm link never raises carrier; and the
connect only succeeds with the network-expanded APN read off the
default-attach bearer, as IPv4.
Also flags the two consequences for stream: the SIM is CGNAT so it
cannot carry the public lease stream's WAN currently publishes, and
the bearer reports a /8 that would cover Tailscale's 100.64.0.0/10
if configured literally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Capture the periodic upgrade of the four nixpkgs channels and
home-manager as a repo doc: check for a NixOS stable bump first, rebase
the devplayer0 fork against upstream (re-verifying the patch stack
against freshly fetched refs), run the update commands, sweep
version-gated TODOs, and review the remaining flake inputs.
Keep the canonical, agent-agnostic procedure in docs/ and point both
AGENTS.md and a thin Claude Code skill at it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generate forward and reverse record tables from authoritative AXFRs
while preserving handwritten Markdown outside per-zone markers. Run the
generator in CI and link the reference from the relevant docs.
jackos1998