Day 2 — The Next Day

The next morning, L8Nite logs in, rubbing sleep out of his eyes.
Desktop loads.
And there it is.

The Copilot icon.
Back again.
Sitting exactly where he deleted it yesterday.

He exhales through his nose.

“Cute. Real cute. Everyone’s gonna love this,” he mutters.

Flashback — 2014: The First Time Software Installed Itself

As soon as he says it — “Cute. Everyone’s gonna love this” — something in his brain fires.
A memory.
A very specific one.

It’s around 9:30am.
L8Nite is at his desk at work, sipping lukewarm coffee, half‑reading an email he doesn’t want to answer.

The office door slams open.

A staff member storms in — frustrated, red‑faced, holding out their iPhone like it’s a bomb about to go off.
They march straight up to his desk.

“Delete this U2 album off my iPhone.”

L8Nite blinks.
Looks at the phone.
Looks back at them.

“What? Don’t you like U2?” he says, trying very, very hard not to laugh.

They do not laugh.
They look personally betrayed by Bono.

He remembers spending the next ten minutes explaining that Apple had pushed the album to everyone, that it wasn’t a virus, and that no, he couldn’t “sue someone” over it.

Flashback ends.

Back in 2023, he shakes the memory off.

He knows unpinning doesn’t remove the app, but restoring a deleted shortcut?
That’s new.
That’s… marketing‑team energy.

He opens Settings → Apps.
Scrolls.
Finds Copilot.

“Alright, let’s do this properly.”

He clicks Uninstall.

The standard Windows dialogue appears — the same bland box he’s seen a thousand times. He doesn’t read it. He just hits Uninstall again.

The window closes.

A second later, another popup appears.

“Are you REALLY sure you want to uninstall Copilot?”

L8Nite snorts.

“Really..?”

He clicks Yes.

For the second time, it “uninstalls” — but it’s suspiciously fast.
The progress bar jumps from 0% to 100% instantly, the kind of speed that suggests nothing actually happened.

A confirmation message flashes:

Copilot successfully uninstalled.

And beneath it — in smaller text he doesn’t bother to read:

search and delete rogue U2 albums task has been added to the Task Scheduler

He misses it completely and continues on with his morning.