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Everything’s Running and Nothing Works
This week on Battle Born Tech: audio that lags the video, ink that dries in the nozzles, and scammers running a script only you can stop.
We welcome our callers John, Linda, and Joan. John has folks being heard but not seen until later the solution involves a hand clap, Linda loves printing every week to keep her inkjet printer jetting, Joan is ready for scammers with our 5 tips so she doesn’t have to call the Fraud Hotline or report the scam at the FBI site. Joe recommends a family and friends “secret safe word” so you know who is calling.
We are often in the studio Saturdays 9 am to 11 am and Sundays 7 pm to 9 pm Pacific. Have your smart phone or speaker remind you to call! Call direct to studio then or anytime at 775-241-3571 and set up a time to battle your tech!
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“This is a real thing, you’re not imagining it”
“I was worried my brain and my eyes were not in synch.”
“I’m also looking for tips.”
“I very much love it.”
“Ink jet printer? Make sure you print!”
“Don’t be sad.”
“Nozzles finer than a human hair.”
“Not just buying a printer-you are buying a relationship.”
“Microsoft never calls you.”
“Hang up and call back.”
“Microsoft never calls you.”
“Get a cyber buddy”
“It is so weird Christy!”
“One call you do make is to Battle Born Tech”
“They even got dental.”
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File Explorer File Size
For years Windows showed every file’s size in kilobytes (KB) in the Size column, so a big video looked like a string of millions of KB you had to do math on. A 2026 Windows 11 update changed that: File Explorer now picks the sensible unit automatically, showing large files in megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB) and leaving small ones in kilobytes.
Take it Down Website
A free service from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that helps remove nude or explicit images of someone who was under 18 when the picture was taken. It works without the image ever leaving your device; adults who need the same help use a separate service at StopNCII.org.
Lip or A/V Sync
When the sound and the picture line up, so the mouth matches the words. When they drift apart you get the old dubbed-movie effect; the proper term is audio-to-video synchronization.
Codec
The method software uses to shrink video or audio for sending and then unpack it on the other end. The name is short for coder-decoder.
Audio Delay
A setting that holds the sound back by a fraction of a second so it waits for the slower-moving video to catch up. In ProPresenter it lives under the Advanced menu.
Constant Bit Rate )CBR)
Sending the same amount of data every second at a steady pace instead of speeding up and slowing down. Keeping a stream steady this way stops the audio and video from drifting apart over time.
H.264 and H.265
Two common recipes for compressing video, the H.264 being the older and more widely supported, H.265 the newer one that packs the same picture into a smaller file. Both are codecs, which is the general term for that shrink-and-unpack method.
HP ink lock down
HP’s practice of pushing printer software updates that make the printer reject cheaper third-party or refilled ink cartridges, which HP calls Dynamic Security. HP settled one class action over this in 2024, then rolled out fresh blocking updates in early 2026, and new lawsuits are underway.
3-D printing
Building a solid object one thin layer at a time, usually from melted plastic, following a digital design, instead of putting ink on paper the way an ordinary printer does. The proper term is additive manufacturing, because the object is added up layer by layer.
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