Battle Born Tech
Got a tech question? So does your neighbor. Battle Born Tech is a call-in radio show from KNVC FM 95.1 community radio, hosted by Christy — brought to the podcast world so you never miss an episode. Real calls, real answers, and then Christy and Joe dig in with follow-up context, tech news, and tools worth knowing about. Thirty minutes. Zero ads. All community.
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October 13, 2026 • 29 mins
Ready, Set, Stop | Battle Born Tech · October 13, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech: Steve has a 15-year-old laptop still works. Steve wasn’t going to throw it away. The question was which Linux would still talk to it, and why one installer built him a house while the other only moved the furniture.
Teresa's sound bar lit up. It just wouldn’t make a sound. The problem wasn’t the sound bar.
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October 6, 2026 • 29 mins
Another License? You've Got to Be Kidding Me!| Battle Born Tech · October 6, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Rebecca just wanted the hymn words on the screen to match the hymnal. Then she learned there's a license for the words, another for Zoom, and another for movie clips. Jay, a retired engineer, tells how his company left Microsoft for Linux and watched its trouble calls fall. And Christy and Joe sort out drivers: when to l...
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September 29, 2026 • 29 mins
It's All Plugged In Why Won't It Work?| Battle Born Tech · September 29, 2026
Stephen's office got a new modem, and suddenly his laptop couldn't reach the printer down the hall. Rachel had a class coming back from recess and a projector showing nothing but blue. Jay's church laptop kept listing his thumb drive twice. Christy and Joe follow the wire one box at a time, and find the equipment was fine all along. The settings just nee...
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September 22, 2026 • 29 mins
Email Ain't Working, Money for Nothing, and PDFs Are Free | Battle Born Tech · September 22, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, who's paying for all those data centers, and could the answer show up on your power bill? Lee asks the question Wall Street can't stop asking, and Nevadans have a way to speak up. Brian brings a laptop that went swimming, and a famous kitchen remedy gets put to the test. Kathryn's email keeps asking wheth...
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September 15, 2026 • 29 mins
We Are All Bouncers Now | Battle Born Tech · September 15, 2026
Email that should be rejected, Encryption that shouldn't be, and a photo show that needs to survive the meeting. This week on Battle Born Tech, A pastor opens an email from his own music director asking for another copy of the church mailing list. The name is right. The address underneath it is not. What stopped it was a staff member who happened to be standing there a...
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September 9, 2026 • 29 mins
Everything Is Fighting Me Today | Battle Born Tech · September 8, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech,Steve's Windows 10 machine boots fine and logs in fine, right up to the moment he plays a recorded show through Dish Anywhere. Then the blue screen takes over and the whole thing starts again. He has already run the repair commands he found online. Christy walks him through what a blue screen is actually pointing at, why the timing ...
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September 1, 2026 • 29 mins
It's My Party But No One's Talking! | Battle Born Tech · September 1, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Joan did everything right and still got yelled at. A scammer forged a malware party invitation and sent it to her whole church group, and her friends blamed her. Christy explains why changing her password will not stop impersonation, how blind carbon copy keeps her list out of a scammer's hands, and when a free mass-mailing acc...
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August 25, 2026 • 29 mins
No More Dots and Dashes | Battle Born Tech · August 25, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, A ham radio license without the Morse code, a browser that eats YouTube ads, and the quiet question of who's mapping your Wi-Fi.
Three callers, three itches worth scratching. Tom has spent years wrestling YouTube's ads into submission, one blocked button at a time. We hand him a cleaner tool and one honest catch he won't love hearing.
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August 18, 2026 • 29 mins
Everything's Running and Nothing Works | Battle Born Tech · August 18, 2026
Three callers this week, and every one of them owns a machine that's running fine and still not doing its job.
John's church stream has the sound arriving ahead of the picture, so the lips never match the words. We explain why video takes longer to process than audio, and how to line them back up, either with a delay setting or a simple hand-clap test in f...
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August 11, 2026 • 29 mins
Not Something I Asked For | Battle Born Tech · August 11, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, three callers get hit with tech nobody invited. Brian's eBay‑bought M.2 SSD showed up locked tight, and it's not the usual BitLocker suspect: it's a self‑encrypting drive standard called SED, the kind of lock that punishes the wrong move. Rosie can't figure out why her iPhone is answering calls with a transcribing robot voice before she ev...
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August 4, 2026 • 29 mins
Why Can't I Just Find What I'm Looking For? | Battle Born Tech · August 4, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Steven is hunting for his storage drive on a Linux machine, and Lee can't find his printer after his Wi-Fi network changed names. Both calls turn into a real tour of "where did it go," on Linux, on Windows, and everywhere in between. Christy also has an extended explainer, okay, rant, on surveillance pricing: what it actua...
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July 21, 2026 • 29 mins
I Wanted My Photos and All I Got Was Ads | Battle Born Tech · July 26, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Peggy calls in as a proud grandma with pictures to grab from a video. Bryan has eight months of photos on an iPhone without a cloud backup and no clear way to get them off. And Tom is looking at his friend's screen, where ads have taken up residence in the lower corner and will not leave. How to push back against pushy notific...
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July 14, 2026 • 29 mins
Pretending Privacy | Battle Born Tech · July 14, 2026
This week Bette wants a laptop that doesn't work, on purpose. Her grandkid has plenty of screen time already, so we skip the Chromebook suggestion and go full craft project on a pretend laptop. Lee goes the opposite direction: his tired Windows laptop gets a second life as a Linux Mint machine, launched from a humble USB stick. And Brian brings us the GDID, the hidden serial num...
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July 7, 2026 • 29 mins
Getting Past the Bouncer | Battle Born Tech · July 7, 2026
July 7 episode web page. First we have one or two sentences definitions for the sidebar: Extended Security Update
Windows Scaling
Browser Zoom
passwd command
sudo
sleep
screen saver
Windows PIN
Bitlocker Encryption
Password Manager
External M.2 SSD
Package Manager
Wear Leveling
SneakerNet
PetrichorShow moreOrchestrated accessible glossary definitions for technical Nevada ...
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June 30, 2026 • 29 mins
Hammer Time: When You Can't Touch This | Battle Born Tech · DATE, 2026
MC Hammer had a point, and this week on Battle Born Tech, so do our callers. We're back from medical leave and diving straight into three things nobody could touch: a phone screen that can't be cleaned without a fight, a website nobody can log into, and Wi-Fi that apparently hitched a ride in someone's car.
Dee discovers that the better the screen, the harder it...
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June 2, 2026 • 29 mins
You Just Can't Quit Windows | Battle Born Tech · June 2, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Your computer is lying to you — and this week, so is the Microsoft Store. Christy can't say "Ethernet" but he can warn you that the antivirus you're trusting may already be obsolete, cyber attacks have gone from a two-year threat window down to just 10 hours, and some critical Microsoft security certificates are about to expire. No bi...
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May 26, 2026 • 29 mins
Who's Running This Thing? | Battle Born Tech · May 26, 2026
This week on Battle Born Tech, Christy's computers can't sleep — they stay up until their updates are finished. Joe is equal parts fascinated and unsettled by the story of AI agents left alone in a virtual world for 15 days — and what happened when things went very, very wrong. Lee wants to know what an Administrator account actually gets you in Windows, and Ch...
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May 19, 2026 • 29 mins
Don't Ask Don't Tell | Battle Born Tech · May 19, 2026
"There is no undo on log-off."
This week on Battle Born Tech, Christy consoles the callers while Joe — hair somewhere between Scorched and Torched — warns listeners about AI that knows exactly how to get what it wants from you. Unusual offers. Fake urgency. Age restrictions. Sound familiar? Joe breaks down the signs before the scams break down your wallet.
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May 12, 2026 • 29 mins
Tap, Talk, & Transfer | Battle Born Tech · May 12, 2026
This week it's all about the callers. Char is on a mission to tame her desktop — we walk her through clicking that tiny URL icon in the browser bar, hunting through the bowels of Windows for the perfect shortcut icon, and making her computer finally work the way she wants. Bruce faces a tough decision about his Samsung Galaxy Tab A11 — not all tablets are creat...
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May 5, 2026 • 29 mins
Trash Bubbles | Battle Born Tech · May 5, 2026
Everything is going to trash this week on Battle Born Tech — and we mean that in the best possible way.
First, Linux drops a vulnerability so severe we blew past "hair on fire" and "pants on fire" and went straight to human torch. CVE-2026-31431 (or "Copy Fail" to its friends) is the kind of security story that ends with one piece of advice: update your servers. Yes, all of them....
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