TechpadinTutorials Running DeepSeek R1 Locally Instead of Downloading the App Skipping the DeepSeek app and the stock market panic entirely, I just ran R1's distilled models locally with Ollama on a three-year-old MacBook. Here's what that actually looked like. January 28, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials I Ran DeepSeek R1 on My Own Laptop and My Fan Has Not Forgiven Me A hands-on walkthrough of pulling DeepSeek R1's distilled models onto a regular laptop with Ollama, plus honest notes on speed, heat, and whether it's actually any good. January 27, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Getting DeepSeek R1 to Think Out Loud on My Laptop A weekend spent getting DeepSeek R1's distilled models running locally with Ollama on a regular MacBook, and why watching it think out loud in a terminal beat the Stargate headlines. January 21, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The TikTok Ban Lasted About Fourteen Hours TikTok went dark Saturday night and came back Sunday, but it's still missing from the app stores — and the real story might be the mass migration to RedNote that happened days before any of it. January 19, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The RTX 5070's "4090 Performance" Claim Has an Asterisk Nvidia's CES keynote claimed the $549 RTX 5070 matches a $1,599 RTX 4090, but that number leans hard on AI frame generation, not raw horsepower. January 13, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A $3,000 AI Box and the Ghost of GPU Launches Past Nvidia's CES keynote promised a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer, but after years of GPU launch-day scalping I'm not holding my breath until it's actually on a shelf. January 11, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Car Had an Alibi The Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas got solved in a day thanks to remote vehicle telemetry, and that's a lot more interesting (and unsettling) than the headlines let on. January 5, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Nineteen Days on TikTok's Clock A personal, skeptical look at TikTok's January 19th divestment deadline, the upcoming Supreme Court arguments, and what fifteen years of watching platforms die has taught me about betting on deadlines. January 4, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials The ThinkPad Gets a Second Life as a Chatbot I spent part of the holiday break getting a local chatbot running on a six-year-old ThinkPad, and it actually works well enough that I've mostly stopped opening ChatGPT. January 3, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Finally Switched to Bluesky (Two Months Late) A personal, late-December account of finally abandoning X for Bluesky, mid platform-migration, complete with radiator complaints and starter-pack side-eye. December 29, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Fixing My Bluesky Feed So It Stops Sucking A practical walkthrough of the custom feeds, starter packs, and mute settings that finally made my Bluesky timeline worth opening every morning. December 22, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Sora Leak Nobody Asked Permission For Artists with early Sora access leaked the tool on Hugging Face days before OpenAI's official launch, and my own first attempts at generating video left me underwhelmed anyway. December 14, 2024·4 min read
