Battle Born Tech

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.

Episodes

It's My Party But No One's Talking!

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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    No More Dots and Dashes

    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. Then...
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    Everything's Running and Nothing Works

    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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    Not Something I Asked For

    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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    Why Can't I Just Find What I'm Looking For?

    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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    I Wanted My Photos and All I Got Was Ads

    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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    Pretending Privacy

    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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    Getting Past the Bouncer

    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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    Hammer Time

    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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    You Just Can't Quit Windows

    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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    Who's Running This Thing?

    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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    Don't Ask—Don't Tell

    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. Speaking ...
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    Tap, Talk, & Transfer

    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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    Trash Bubbles

    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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    Call the Graybeard

    April 28, 2026 • 29 mins
    Call the Graybeard | Battle Born Tech · April 28, 2026 Dennis has a Linux printer that won't cooperate. Robert wants to send a fax — yes, a fax, in 2026 — and nobody's judging... much. Brian got quietly dumped by eBay and isn't sure what he did wrong. This week on Battle Born Tech, we're reconnecting everything from print drivers to phone lines to broken marketplace relationships. Hair on fire optional. Battle Born Tech...
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    Getting Fancy with Stupid Pop-ups

    April 22, 2026 • 29 mins
    Getting Fancy with Stupid Pop-ups | Battle Born Tech · April 21, 2026 Your browser's been hijacked. Your new laptop won't let you leave the Microsoft Store. And one caller just wants his apps to stop wandering around his screen. This week on Battle Born Tech, we're getting fancy with stupid pop-ups. Diane's computer is buried under a avalanche of fake McAfee warnings. Joan is trapped in Windows S mode — and we go through ever...
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    Bright Lights, Old Macs

    April 14, 2026 • 29 mins
    Bright Lights, Old Mac | Battle Born Tech · March 14, 2026 Your iPhone thinks it's the sun. A wireless mouse is lost without its tiny USB soulmate. And a dusty old Mac emerges from the closet — ready to work, but the web has moved on without it. Christy and Joe dig into accessibility settings, Logitech's Unifying lineup, and the honest truth about dancing with the one who brought you. Battle Born Tech on KNVC 95.1 — rea...
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    Losing Face

    April 7, 2026 • 29 mins
    Battle Born Tech — "Losing Face" Broadcast April 7, 2026 | KNVC FM 95.1 Tax season brings out the scammers, and Christy and Joe are on it — starting with a firm reminder: "The IRS does NOT take gift cards for payments." If someone's telling you otherwise, hang up. Lee calls in with a facial recognition puzzle — his face won't unlock his iPhone. Christy's sympathy has limits: "You don't see the cracks over the radi...
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    Your Windows Roots Are Showing

    March 31, 2026 • 29 mins
    Battle Born Tech "Your Windows Roots Are Showing" Broadcast March 31, 2026 | KNVC FM 95.1 Christy and the crew tackle three real-world tech puzzles. Lee's barcode scanner gun has an identity crisis — it doesn't know it's a keyboard. Donna can't figure out why her WordPress homepage keeps changing on her. And Lee discovers the hard way that downloading a Linux .tar.gz file is usually the long way around — when sudo apt i...
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    Help Me Before I Smash This Machine

    March 24, 2026 • 29 mins
    The FCC just banned new foreign-made routers — what does that mean for your next upgrade? Mitch needs home internet and weighs his options from cable to Starlink. Steve schools us on MoCA ethernet over coax and drops a warning for DirecTV users. Donna tries to fix her email and sends us deep into Outlook's Credential Manager. Real tech battles, real solutions — Battle Born Tech airing Tuesdays 8PM Pacific on KNVC FM 95....
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