He reached for the power cable.
His work machine was bloated—telemetry, forced updates, AI assistants that watched every keystroke. His personal laptop wasn’t much better. Every OS felt like a rental agreement, not a tool. So late on a Sunday night, with rain cutting diagonally across his window, Leo decided to burn the ISO.
You were the payload. Would you like a technical breakdown of how a real “debloated Windows ISO” differs from this fictional one, or a guide to safely making your own privacy-focused build?
Then black.