TechpadinPersonal I Did Not Get a 3080 (And I'm Weirdly Fine With It) A blow-by-blow of failing to buy an RTX 3080 the normal way, and why the scalper-bot situation around last week's Nvidia launches bugs me more than the card shortage itself. September 29, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Still No RTX 3080, Ten Days Later Ten days after the RTX 3080 launched, still no card in hand: a rant about bots, scalper eBay listings, and EVGA's queue-line-for-a-graphics-card system. September 27, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Bethesda's Microsoft's Now (And I Just Preordered a PS5) Microsoft's $7.5 billion ZeniMax/Bethesda acquisition landed five days after I finally scored a PS5 preorder, and now I'm doing math about exclusives I don't love. September 21, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Ban That Wasn't The TikTok download ban that was supposed to hit at midnight got pushed a week, and a judge blocked the WeChat ban outright, leaving me with an alarm clock set for nothing. September 20, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Day the Sky Turned Orange and I Still Had Standup A few days late, some notes on the morning the Bay Area sky turned deep orange and I still logged into a 9:30 Zoom standup like nothing was happening outside. September 12, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The S&P 500 Said No to Tesla and I'm a Little Salty About It Tesla got left out of the S&P 500's quarterly rebalancing despite hitting the profitability bar everyone expected would clinch it, and a small personal position (plus a rough week for tech stocks) makes it sting more than it should. September 4, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials An Evening With a Raspberry Pi and Too Many DNS Requests I finally set up Pi-hole on an old Raspberry Pi to deal with our overloaded home wifi during remote school week, and found out just how much junk traffic ads and trackers actually generate. August 26, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Checking PurpleAir More Than Twitter A week into hazardous wildfire smoke from the SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires, I'm checking PurpleAir more than Twitter and rationing N95s between two different emergencies. August 24, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Flight Simulator Ate My Entire Evening (And My Data Cap) Microsoft Flight Simulator finally launched today, and the real story for most of us wasn't the graphics, it was watching a multi-hour download eat the whole evening. August 18, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite Was the Real Story The Epic vs. Apple fight was never really about V-bucks. The real story is the "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" parody ad, and how obviously pre-planned the whole legal stunt was. August 16, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The App Store Fight Looks Different From Down Here Epic picked a fight with Apple and Google this week over the App Store's 30% cut. As someone with a tiny app earning $61 a quarter, the fight looks a lot different from where I'm sitting. August 15, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung's New Earbuds Look Like Coffee Beans Samsungs new bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live claim active noise cancellation with an open-fit design, and Im not convinced the physics works out. August 9, 2020·3 min read
