Not a pop-up. Not a Windows notification—he hadn’t run Windows on it since day one. Instead, a single line of green text appeared on the black terminal he’d left open:
Then the 4K panel split into four grainy video feeds, all black and white, all dated . A lab. A server rack. A woman in a lab coat holding a board that looked exactly like the T580’s motherboard—except where the WWAN slot should be, there was a small daughterboard with a coaxial port. t580 xda
Karl typed: whoami
who woke you
The screen flickered. A second later: