Defying Best Used By Date | Battle Born Tech · February 10, 2026

This week on Battle Born Tech, we're defying the best used by date — on hardware, software, and bad advice.

We walk back last week's memory recommendations (turns out we went a little update-crazy), get in your face about why your iPhone needs Lockdown Mode before someone else decides it does, and break down the Notepad++ update server compromise — because even your trusted tools can go bad past their date.

Then the callers bring the real world in: Bill wants desktop shortcuts the way he wants them, and we've got three ways to get there. Halley is heroically squeezing HDMI output into a VGA projector that has no idea what decade it is — old wineskins, new wine, and a dongle in between. And Steven is running Windows 10 on a network alongside Windows 11 and Linux machines, which is a little like keeping expired milk next to the fresh stuff and hoping nobody notices.

October 14th, 2025 came and went. We'll tell you what that really means — and what happens when things stop happening.

"Smart to Dumb is easier than Dumb to Smart"

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