The office light flickered. Just a brownout, he thought. The fan slowed, then resumed. But on the router, the orange light turned red.
tftp> put wf2322_v2.4.0.bin
Arjun sighed, staring at the blinking orange light on his NETIS WF2322. It was 11:47 PM. The deadline for his cloud architecture diagrams was in thirteen hours, and the router had chosen tonight to develop a stutter. Pages loaded halfway, then froze. Video calls broke into glitchy, pixelated nightmares.
The internet returned. His diagrams were safe. The SSH keys were intact.
He slammed Enter.