At 100%, a new window appeared: .
The problem was the internet. It was gone. No Wi-Fi, no Ethernet to the outside. Every installer they had on a USB stick required a live download—a "web installer." BlueStacks, the famous Android emulator, required you to download a tiny .exe that then fetched 600 MB of data from the cloud. The cloud had evaporated.
And in the corner of the BlueStacks home screen, a small notification badge simply read: "System ready. 64-bit. All systems nominal. No network required."