TechpadinTutorials Refresh, Refresh, Refresh: My Xbox Series X Launch Day Survival Notes Notes from a chaotic Xbox Series X launch day: why stock tracking is broken, what actually helped, and why the $219 storage expansion card still bugs me. November 11, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Big Navi Looks Great on a Slide, I Still Dont Have a GPU AMD's Radeon RX 6000 launch event had great slides and a Ryzen 5000 chip dropping tomorrow, but after missing the RTX 3080 by three minutes in September I'm not holding my breath on actually owning one. November 4, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Big Navi Pricing Looks Great, Which Is Exactly Why I Won't Get One AMD's RX 6000 pricing looks great on paper, but after living through the RTX 3080 launch chaos in September, I'm not holding my breath for November 18th either. November 3, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal A Week With the iPhone 12 (And My Drawer Full of Old Chargers) A week in with the iPhone 12 - the MagSafe click is great, the missing charger in the box is a little less great, and my hand cramps on those flat edges. October 31, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The iPhone 12 Box Is Missing Something The iPhone 12 shipped without a charger or earbuds in the box, and MagSafe is back as a magnetic charging ring. Some thoughts on what that combination actually adds up to. October 25, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iPhone 12 Day, and the Case of the Missing Charger The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro hit stores today, and the thing everyone's actually talking about isn't the 5G chip, it's the empty half of the box. October 23, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Prime Day Landed on the Same Day as the iPhone Event Amazon's rescheduled Prime Day landed on the same day as Apple's iPhone 12 event, and most of the "deals" I checked weren't actually deals at all. October 17, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Ditched the Charger and I Have Some Thoughts Apple's iPhone 12 event was two days ago, and the detail I can't stop thinking about isn't the phone specs, it's the missing charger in the box. October 15, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The CRISPR Nobel and Why I Actually Read the Science Section This Week The Chemistry Nobel just went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for CRISPR, and it made me actually stop and read the science pages this week instead of scrolling past. October 9, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fly Beat the Debate A fly landed on Mike Pence's head during Tuesday's VP debate, and the internet's reaction infrastructure turned it into merch before the debate was even over. October 8, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 449 Pages Later, Still Paying the App Store Tax Congress dropped a 449-page report on Big Tech monopolies yesterday, and buried in it is the exact 30% App Store cut that quietly killed a side project of mine four years ago. October 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Chromecast Finally Gets a Remote (And I Have Feelings About It) Google finally put a remote on the Chromecast and renamed the whole interface Google TV again — a look at the new hardware, plus a complaint about my ever-growing remote drawer. October 1, 2020·3 min read
