TechpadinTech News Why I Turned Off iCloud Photos This Week Apple's CSAM photo-scanning plan drew an open letter from 90+ rights groups this week, and between that and the T-Mobile breach fallout, I finally switched off iCloud Photo Library. August 22, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News T-Mobile Got Popped, and I'm Probably in There A hacker claims to have over 100 million T-Mobile customer records, T-Mobile is only saying it's "investigating," and I'm sitting here wondering if my old Sprint account is in the pile. August 16, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Rocket Get Stacked (and Un-Stacked) at 7am A few hours before dawn, SpaceX stacked the tallest rocket ever assembled at Starbase, then took it apart again. I set an alarm to watch anyway. August 8, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Windows 365 Launched Today and the Pricing Page Made My Head Hurt Windows 365 went live today, and after wrestling with its licensing tiers I'm convinced it's an enterprise provisioning tool wearing a consumer-friendly name. August 2, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Buying Robinhood Stock Inside Robinhood Was a Weird Loop Robinhood went public this week and let users buy the IPO shares straight through its own app, an odd little loop worth picking apart, plus a quick note on Amazon's rough earnings day right next to it. July 30, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Facebook Wants to Be a Metaverse Company Now, Apparently Zuckerberg spent Facebook's Q2 earnings call pitching a "metaverse" future, and I'm not sure I buy it — plus a Steam Deck reservation and a week of mask-mandate whiplash. July 28, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News I Tried (and Maybe Failed) to Preorder a Steam Deck Valve's Steam Deck preorders went live this week and I tried (and maybe failed) to snag one, plus some thoughts on the base model's storage and how it stacks up against the new Switch OLED. July 20, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Right-to-Repair Order and My Cracked iPhone Screen Biden's new executive order tells the FTC to go after manufacturers who block third-party repair, and it name-checks farmers hacking their own tractors right alongside phone screens. July 12, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Windows 11 Keynote Told Me Nothing I Didn't Already Know Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 11 on Thursday, but thanks to a leaked build I'd already been living with the rounded corners and centered taskbar for over a week. June 25, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Windows 11 Leaked Before Microsoft Could Even Show It Off A full Windows 11 build leaked days before Microsoft's official reveal, so tomorrow's big event already feels like a recap. Some thoughts on the centered taskbar, leak culture, and running an old VM to poke around. June 23, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Installed the Leaked Windows Build Before Microsoft Even Announced It A leaked build of the next Windows landed on forums this week, a full eight days before Microsoft's own event, and I could not resist installing it in a VM. June 17, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Metroid Dread Is Actually Real Nintendo's E3 Direct confirmed Metroid Dread is real after sixteen years of rumors, plus another moody Breath of the Wild 2 teaser with still no release date. June 15, 2021·4 min read
