TechpadinTech News Trying (and Failing) to Get My Cyberpunk 2077 Refund A week into trying to get my PS4 refund for Cyberpunk 2077, and the process is almost as buggy as the game. December 30, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Chasing the Christmas Star With My Phone Camera I tried to photograph the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction with an iPhone and failed badly, plus a quick aside about Sony pulling Cyberpunk 2077 off the PlayStation Store. December 23, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Sony Pulled Cyberpunk 2077 and I Got My Money Back Sony pulled Cyberpunk 2077 off the PlayStation Store this week over its rough PS4 performance, and my own refund story explains exactly why. December 22, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Morning Google Forgot How to Log Anyone In A Monday morning Google outage knocked out Gmail, Drive, YouTube, and my kid's Google Classroom in one shot, and it made me notice just how much of the day runs through one login system. December 16, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 45 Minutes of Google Being Gone, and a Faceless NPC Google's login system went dark for 45 minutes yesterday and took Gmail, Docs, YouTube, and apparently some people's smart locks down with it. Also, Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 is a mess. December 15, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Went Down and Took My Thermostat With It Google went down for 45 minutes this morning and took my thermostat with it, which says more about smart home design than it does about Google. December 14, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Still No PS5: A Month Into the Restock Hunt A month into the PS5 launch and I still can't get one — some notes on restock bots, scalper markups, and giving up on principle vs giving up for real. December 8, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Dish Fell Down and All I Could Think About Was My Old Screensaver Arecibo's instrument platform collapsed into the dish this week, and it sent me down a rabbit hole of memories about running SETI@home on my family's old Compaq back in 2001. December 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News We Lost Arecibo A few days after the Arecibo Observatory's platform finally collapsed, some thoughts on what we actually lost, and why it took this long to fall. December 6, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News We're Losing Arecibo And Nobody's Talking About It While everyone was chasing PS5 restocks this week, NSF quietly announced it's decommissioning the Arecibo Observatory after a second cable failure left the structure too dangerous to repair. November 28, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Did Not Get an RX 6800 XT and I Have Thoughts A blow-by-blow of losing the RX 6800 XT launch-day checkout race, and a small rant about bots eating GPU stock during a very weird month for hardware launches. November 20, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Refreshing Best Buy at 6am for a PS5 I Did Not Get A morning spent refreshing four different retailer tabs trying to buy a PS5, and losing to bots, on the actual US launch day. November 12, 2020·3 min read
