It was a gray Tuesday afternoon when Leo’s old HP Pavilion, still faithfully running Windows 7, decided to betray him. The notification appeared in the system tray, sharp and yellow: “USB device not recognized. The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it.”
Then he finished the fox’s scarf—every last stripe—in honor of his father, and the long, weird, wonderful journey of installing a driver on Windows 7.
“This device cannot start. (Code 10)”