

Well. When masses opt out from newer equipment and companies revenue needs them to use theur services, they just need to revise end of support date.
I myself will not ever use thin clients. If that ever comes to reality, I will just drop my phone off.
I also think that as Google is closing it’s android ecosystem next september and the phones will be more expensive there will emerge need and supply for lighter and open chips to build alternatives to ios and android.
Laptops on the other hand seem to have reasonably long lifespan. My oldest still on use is from 2011.
My Linux is not ever going to have any age verification.
I’m not living in those backwards contry and if that push ever comes to shove, there will always be way around it. It’s the beauty of open source, no entity is liable to comply. And we’re in the brink of ad-hoc internet which would render that stupid centralized and overgoverned shit to zero.