The writing's on the wall. Nobody's keeping compute local anymore.

Look at what's happening: RAM costs have quadrupled. GPUs doubled. Storage keeps climbing. Gaming consoles? More expensive every cycle. It's not a coincidence. Hardware pricing is systematically pushing regular users toward one direction—the cloud. And there's the catch: you won't own it. You'll rent it. Monthly, yearly, whatever subscription model wins.

It's a shift already baked in. As AI demands more processing power, the economics just don't work for individual ownership anymore. The infrastructure moves to centralized cloud providers, and suddenly your compute becomes a service you pay for, not a tool you control.