He’d just spent his monthly freelance budget on an AMD Ryzen 7600X, a TPM 2.0 module, and a fresh NVMe drive. His old PC, a loyal Windows 10 warrior, had finally blue-screened its last blue screen.
He set the time zone manually. He disabled every "enhanced privacy" slider that assumed he was a product. He named his user folder Leo — not the first five letters of his email address.
He clicked it.
Leo typed: LEO-PC
— now glowing, clickable, and angry.
