I don't know how much of a conspiracy that is. If the current trend of hardware costs keep rising to the point of pricing people out of having any real compute locally, and chip makers actively de-prioritizing consumer-grade memory, GPUs, etc, companies will (more) heavily push thin clients and streaming for everything.

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charlieyu1 a day ago | parent [-]

I really don’t see it happening at all, not with current trends, you can barely run Win11 on 8GB ram anymore

	▲	teirce a day ago \| parent [-]
		This kind of makes my point. Consumers won't be able to run things locally, so you end up with Win11 in the cloud and your device is just a glorified browser because that's all you can afford.