TechpadinTech News Windows 11 Has a Date and My PC Might Not Be Invited Windows 11 finally has a release date, October 5th, but my perfectly good desktop is one CPU generation too old to officially qualify, and the TPM 2.0 saga still isn't fully sorted out. September 3, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News October 5th It Is (My Spare PC Still Says No) Microsoft set October 5th as the Windows 11 release date this week — notes from two months on the Insider build, plus a rant about the still-murky TPM 2.0 requirement. August 31, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News T-Mobile Got Hacked Again and I Finally Changed My PIN T-Mobile's breach numbers keep climbing (47 million and counting) and I finally got around to changing my account PIN. Some thoughts on why "two years of free identity protection" doesn't fix a permanent problem. August 24, 2021·3 min read
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
TechpadinTutorials A Month With GitHub Copilot A month into using GitHub Copilot's technical preview: when it nails a whole function on the first try, when it quietly hands you a broken regex, and why the GPL licensing fight has me keeping it off my work laptop for now. August 14, 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
