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  • Bright Lights, Old Macs

    Bright Lights, Old Macs
    Apr 15 2026
    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 — real tech help from real callers, every Tuesday at 8 PM Pacific. Battle Born Tech airs Tuesdays at 8 PM Pacific on FM 95.1 · Stream live at KNVC.org · battleborn.tech · Call the studio Saturdays 9–11 AM Pacific: 775-241-3571
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    29 min
  • Losing Face

    Losing Face
    Apr 11 2026
    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 radio." Turns out the Apple Genius Bar exam is harder than it looks, and "the cutting of the fingers is not good." Steve wants to know where all the old Battle Born Tech episodes went — good news, they're not gone forever. Christy and Joe dig into how archived shows work and where to find them. Keith is running out of hard drive space right at tax crunch time and needs relief fast. Teresa, meanwhile, has spotted something wrong on the internet — and Christy and Joe tackle the uncomfortable truth: "What the web gives...the web can take away." Plus — how do you update the internet? Joe weighs in with context and follow-up, and nobody leaves without a reminder: "Don't forget the treat!" for the tech!
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    29 min
  • Your Windows Roots Are Showing

    Your Windows Roots Are Showing
    Apr 1 2026
    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 install or your desktop package manager will do the job in seconds. Call in Saturdays 9–11am Pacific at 775-241-3571, or call anytime to schedule your own tech battle. "Your Windows roots are showing — we can help you get those touched up."
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    29 min
  • Help Me Before I Smash This Machine

    Help Me Before I Smash This Machine
    Mar 25 2026
    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 95.1. Call Christy at 775-241-3571 Saturdays between 9-11 am Pacific
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    29 min
  • Uninvited Guests

    Uninvited Guests
    Mar 11 2026
    Uninvited Guests | Battle Born Tech · March 10, 2026 This week, every caller's computer is hosting something it never invited in. Tom suspects a rootkit is hiding deep in his system — we pull out the eviction tools, including Malwarebytes (with rootkit scanning switched ON — it's off by default) and the legendary Kaspersky TDSSKiller. Jackson's Bluetooth speaker has a codec mismatch nobody warned him about, and Joe explains why aptX Adaptive, LC3, LE Audio, and Bluetooth 5.2+ are today's gold standard — but only if both devices speak the same language. Brian goes hunting in Windows Security settings and finds OneDrive ads squatting in his security panel, uncovers the ghost of Windows S Mode still haunting fresh Windows 11 installs as Smart App Control, and learns that ransomware protection through version history is already built into Windows if you know where to look. In Battle Plans: we sort out MoCA internet over coax versus the old Token Ring network, explain the ClickFix scam where pressing Windows+R and Ctrl+V hands your computer to a criminal, and spotlight Agent Charley from Charlemagne Labs — a privacy-first, on-device AI watchdog using a Small Language Model that catches phishing and lookalike sites before you click, with everything running locally and nothing going to the cloud. "Anti-virus doesn't protect you from being tricked by the tricksters." Battle Born Tech airs Tuesdays at 8 PM Pacific on FM 95.1 · Stream live at KNVC.org · battleborn.tech · Call the studio Saturdays 9–11 AM Pacific: 775-241-3571
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    29 min