Ready, Set, STOP

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. Every program on Josh’s computer remembers “don’t print on both sides.” Except the one that prints his checks. The fix was not where he’d been looking. News: Windows 10 gets another year, data centers become war targets, and French supermarkets learn what happens when the freezer takes orders from the internet. Battle Born Tech airs Tuesdays at 8 PM Pacific on FM 95.1 · Stream live at KNVC.org · battleborn.tech · bbtl.ink/stats · Call the studio Saturdays 9–11 AM and Sundays 7-9 PM Pacific: 775-241-3571 ### Chapters - (00:00:06) - Intro and show setup - (00:01:36) - Windows 10 end of support and ESU update - (00:02:36) - Steve's call: Linux on old 32-bit laptop - (00:10:32) - Puppy Linux installer and GParted explainer - (00:11:28) - Windows ESU enrollment instructions - (00:12:29) - Teresa's call: USB sound bar no sound - (00:16:25) - Sound troubleshooting wrap-up - (00:17:15) - Ukraine-Russia cyberwar and bot traffic - (00:18:33) - Josh's call: printer duplex settings flipping checks - (00:24:58) - French refrigerator hacking incident - (00:26:08) - Show closing and credits