He swears the kickstand moves on its own.
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He held down the Volume Down button. He pressed Power.
Instead, the desktop loaded.
His latest obsession was cursed hardware: a Microsoft Surface RT. You remember it. The tablet that ran Windows RT, a bizarre alternate universe where the desktop existed but couldn't run anything you actually wanted. It was a digital paperweight with a kickstand.
The taskbar was responsive. He opened Edge. Wi-Fi worked. Then he opened Task Manager. CPU: Tegra 3 (ARMv7). RAM: 2GB. And in the background processes, a single service was running, using 0% CPU but with a description he’d never seen before: