@joepie91 @terminaltilt I see your point, thanks. Would you have refs for the enregy/material consumption tradeof between individual devices and remote processing systems?
Recently I've pulled 2 10yrs Mac Books of my parents-in-law from obsolescence by updating to the latest compatible OS, as they weren't even able to access mail accounts and simple websites anymore. Ultimately, they'll have to buy new machines for mere software incompatibility reasons, and this I find crazy. What alternatives?

@terminaltilt As much as I abhore anything that Jeff does and represents, I see an environmental point in a rental model. In the sense that ownership of hardware in a programmed obsolescence industry model is ecologically worse. Most people run their daily apps on massively overpowered individual machines, produced at huge environmental cost. And I see potential in sharing hardware here. But definitely not on AWS. Rather local hubs, something like a decentralized network of remote processors