TechpadinTech News Fifty-Five Million Dollars a Seat: Some Thoughts on Ax-1 Four private citizens are floating around the ISS right now after Axiom's Ax-1 mission, and I can't stop doing the math on what a $55 million ticket actually buys you. April 16, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching Four Guys Fly to the ISS Before My Coffee Was Ready I got up at 6am to watch Axiom's Ax-1 launch, the first fully private crewed flight to the ISS, and ended up thinking more about the recycled Crew Dragon capsule than the $55 million price tag. April 10, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching Four Non-Astronauts Launch to the ISS This Morning Four guys, only one of them a career astronaut, launched to the ISS this morning on a reused Crew Dragon capsule. Some thoughts on watching it live and what it actually means. April 8, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Two Months Is a Long Time to Sit on a Breach Okta finally explained the Lapsus$ screenshots that went around last week, and the timeline shows they knew about the incident two months before anyone outside the company did. March 30, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Okta Took Two Months to Tell Anyone Okta finally admitted Lapsus$ had access to a support engineer's laptop back in January, and the two-month gap before anyone outside the company knew is the part that actually bothers me. March 28, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Why My Mac Studio Is Stuck Somewhere Near Shenzhen My Mac Studio order got delayed this week, which sent me down a rabbit hole into the Shenzhen COVID lockdown and why one city's outbreak can slow down half of Apple's lineup at once. March 21, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple's $1,599 Monitor Has a Webcam Problem The Mac Studio and Studio Display shipped this week, and reviewers agree on one weird thing: Apple's $1,599 monitor has a genuinely mediocre webcam. March 20, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Mac Studio Looks Great, the Stand Tax Does Not Apple's new Studio Display starts at $1,599, but if you want the stand to actually adjust height, that's another $400 on top. A closer look at the one line item from last week's Apple event that's still bugging me. March 13, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Wants Another $400 So Your Monitor Can Tilt Properly Apple's new Studio Display starts at $1,599, and the stand that actually adjusts height costs $400 more. I have thoughts. March 11, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nvidia's Hackers Have Weirdly Relatable Demands Nvidia confirmed a breach and hackers are reportedly demanding they kill the RTX 30-series mining limiter and open-source their drivers, a ransom note that sounds a lot like a Reddit thread. March 3, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Elden Ring Ate My Weekend (And My Frame Rate) Elden Ring and the Steam Deck both launched on the same day, and I only had room in my life for one of them — plus some thoughts on the PC version's frame pacing problems. February 25, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Coinbase QR Code Ad Was Cool for About Ninety Seconds Coinbase's bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was the talk of Sunday night, but the part everyone's skipping over is that it briefly took the app down. February 17, 2022·4 min read
