The screen flashed white, then resolved into a perfect, high-fidelity image of… the EmuELEC boot logo. But wrong. The colors were inverted. The text underneath read:

He opened it. It contained one line.

“You downloaded without reading the manifest. You did not verify the checksum. You are a guest in my kernel now.”

That’s not a theme, Alex thought. That’s a kernel panic.

The screen went black.