TechpadinTech News The Flip5's Hinge Is the Real Story from Unpacked Samsung's new Fold5 and Flip5 finally close with a flush hinge and the Flip5 gets a cover screen worth using — a bigger deal than the flat pricing everyone's focused on. July 27, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Running Llama 2 Locally: First Impressions Two nights of downloading and quantizing later, I got Llama 2's 7B and 13B models running locally with llama.cpp — some notes on the process, the quirks, and why the 34B model is mysteriously missing. July 20, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Threads Has Already Gone Quiet Threads hit 100 million signups in five days, then daily users reportedly cut in half within a week. My own feed already looks like a ghost town. July 19, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Getting Llama 2 Running Before I'd Even Finished My Coffee Meta and Microsoft dropped Llama 2 today, and unlike the March leak, this time you can just ask for the weights. I did, and spent the rest of the afternoon trying to get a quantized 13B running on my own laptop. July 18, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Rate Limited: A Saturday Spent Watching Twitter Choke on Itself Twitter capped how many tweets people could read per day this weekend, and getting locked out for an afternoon taught me more about where this is all headed than the announcement itself did. July 2, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apollo Goes Dark Tonight Apollo for Reddit closes its doors at midnight tonight, and I'm genuinely bummed about it in a way I didn't expect to be over an app. June 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Six Days Left on Apollo, and the Part That Actually Bugged Me Apollo shuts down in six days, but the part of the Reddit API fight that actually got to me this week was watching the company strip mod permissions from subreddits that stayed dark. June 24, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Went Dark and I Finally Lost Apollo Reddit's API pricing fight boiled over into a mass subreddit blackout this week, and the fallout means Apollo, the best third-party Reddit app around, is shutting down for good on June 30th. June 16, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Twitter Spaces Couldn't Handle Its Own Hype Twitter Spaces melted down under a stampede of listeners this week, and it's a better case study in thundering-herd traffic problems than in campaign politics. May 27, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT App Is On My Phone Now and I Keep Talking To It Like a Person OpenAI's ChatGPT app landed on the iPhone last Thursday and I've been using it constantly since, mostly for things I'm slightly embarrassed to admit. May 21, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Tears of the Kingdom Ate My Week A week after Tears of the Kingdom launched, my yard work and inbox both lost to Ultrahand, floating islands, and a stubborn Joy-Con drift problem. May 19, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Elon Hires an Ad Saleswoman to Run Twitter Elon Musk named NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO right in the middle of upfronts week, and the timing tells you exactly which of Twitter's problems he thinks is the real emergency. May 13, 2023·4 min read
