I saw this on twitter yesterday and assumed it was someone retweeting an april fool's joke ... I guess I was wrong? This seems ... insane? Going back to thin cl

I saw this on twitter yesterday and assumed it was someone retweeting an april fool's joke ... I guess I was wrong? This seems ... insane? Going back to thin clients because the very fat clients we have are too slow to render ad-infested web pages fast enough? Am I missing something here?