TechpadinTech News Surviving the Switch 2 Preorder Scramble A firsthand account of the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder chaos on April 24th, from tariff-driven delays to a GameStop site that just fell over. April 30, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Setting an Alarm for a Video Game Nintendo Switch 2 preorders open tomorrow after tariff chaos delayed them by two weeks, and I'm annoyed at how normal it feels to plan my morning around a refresh button. April 23, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nintendo Just Punted My Switch 2 Preorder to "Later" Nintendo was supposed to open US preorders for the Switch 2 today. Instead they punted, citing tariffs, and I'm annoyed in a very specific and personal way. April 9, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Weekend Rebuilding My Invoice Script With Gemini 2.5 Pro A weekend spent rebuilding an invoice script three ways to actually test Gemini 2.5 Pro against Claude, plus a note on DeepSeek's quiet open-weights update. April 1, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Deleting My DNA From 23andMe Before Someone Else Owns It 23andMe filed for bankruptcy this week and state attorneys general are urging users to delete their genetic data before it changes hands. I finally did, and the process taught me more than I wanted to know. March 27, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Part of Nvidia's Keynote Was a Fake Dog Nvidia's GTC keynote this week had a two-year GPU roadmap and a $3,000 desktop AI computer, but the part I keep thinking about is the robot dog. March 20, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Jensen Huang's Two-Hour Keynote and My Still-Empty GPU Cart Nvidia's GTC keynote promised AI factories and a chip named after an astronomer, but months after launch I still can't buy an RTX 5090 anywhere near its sticker price. March 18, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The MacBook Air Finally Has Enough RAM Apple quietly doubled the base RAM on the new M4 MacBook Air to 16GB without raising the price, ending years of shipping 8GB base models. A small, overdue fix worth noticing. March 12, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Site Went Down and Somehow It Was Ukraine's Fault X went down in three waves yesterday and Musk blamed Ukraine within the hour. Here's why I'm not buying the instant, evidence-free version of events. March 11, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The New Mac Studio's Top Chip Is Two Generations Behind Apple's new Mac Studio buries an M3 Ultra chip above the newer M4 Max, and the naming makes way less sense than it should. March 10, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Monster Hunter Wilds Runs Like Garbage on My Perfectly Fine PC Monster Hunter Wilds is a massive hit, but a decent mid-range PC still can't hold 60fps without frame generation propping it up. March 4, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Firefox Got Its First-Ever Terms of Service and Immediately Regretted It Mozilla gave Firefox its first-ever terms of use on February 26th, the wording spooked a lot of longtime users, and the hasty rewrite two days later didn't really fix the trust problem. March 2, 2025·3 min read
