Comment by PaulDavisThe1st

I walked away from computers in 1996, not intending to go back. Child-raising and gardening/farming were going to be my future. I hated computers, I hated what computers had done to me, I hated what computers were doing to the world.

Then, somehow, a couple of years later I started writing FLOSS software for music (recording, editing, mixing, composition, processing). My interactions were with users for whom computers were a creative tool, not a business tool. When things worked, my software was helping people feel as if they were able to express themselves in ways they might not otherwise have been able to [0].

In 2022 I don't love computers, but I have a very different relationship to them than I did 2.5 decades ago. I still don't know if on balance they are really a good thing for the world, but for me personally, yeah, sure, I like them.

[0] one might argue that they should have been non-computer-based music making tools, and you could be right.