I think most people think about it more if the second way you described (as kind of a small retirement hobby, not to earn much money).

Tech workers spend all of their time working on abstract problems that have no end and spend all their energy to produce something intangible that must indefinitely be maintained.

They see farming as the exact opposite of this: something they can work on with their hands in the dirt, that eventually bears fruit that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and even eat yourself and personally benefit from.

This is much more an urge to return to nature and the feeling of actual accomplishment rather than an actual business plan. It doesn't really matter how it goes financially because they already have enough money to retire.

I think they typically know that it's more expensive. They are just making the assumption that the cost will come down drastically in the future and the quality will drastically increase.

I just don't think that will happen before all of these companies run out of money.

Having the LLM generate suggestions that the human can use is exactly the kind of interaction I want. I'm still in control, the LLM can help and can't hurt.

That may be true, but a human will also do a better job.

Self-Deprecating Crab Rangoon

My guess is their intention is to ban the Lion and Sun flag, and banning the pride flag is a happy coincidence for them.

Ardour is an open source DAW (like Cubase/Logic Pro/Reaper) which is meant for music writing. You can use that potentially instead of Audacity for recording and using MIDI instruments.

“The United States did not start this conflict, but we will finish it,”

WTF? We 100% started it. Trump was telling everyone we were starting it, yesterday.

Apparently that's something that Bill Gates is an expert in...

For coding, you could use VSCode, which is not the same as VS but it has enough extensions to probably support your use-case?

Los Angeles

Nightmare blunt rotation for sure...