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 is the best clue he has, and why the fix is probably a graphics driver rather than a dying computer. George has handled a couple thousand of the new stick of gum sized drives and has never managed to kill one. He settles the decades old magnet question, explains what does destroy a drive, and Christy follows with the cheapest protection there is, which is probably in your recycling right now. And Betty is finished with Google Maps. Christy covers what happened to the ad free MapQuest option, who owns MapQuest these days, and how Organic Maps and OpenStreetMap will get you past Fallon with no signal at all, as long as you remember the one step everybody forgets. Plus the smart TV settings worth turning off tonight, an overdue reminder to freeze your credit, and paper maps get their moment. 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 & Sundays 7 - 9 PM Pacific, or anytime: 775-241-3571

Chapters

• (00:00:06) - Battleborn Tech
• (00:01:31) - Google Chrome Update Alert for TVs
• (00:03:14) - Windows 10 Upgrade Problems
• (00:06:56) - Dish TV problem: Driver Update
• (00:09:20) - TVs and the HIPAA
• (00:10:30) - Credit Freeze
• (00:11:28) - Secure SSDs: magnets and danger
• (00:15:28) - The Best Way to Protect Your Components
• (00:17:14) - How to Get Rid of Google Maps!
• (00:20:18) - Organic Maps for Android Auto and Apple Maps
• (00:24:49) - Don't automatically download Google Maps or MapQuest.
• (00:26:10) - Battleborn Tech: Questions & Answers
• (00:28:09) - Battleborn Tech