Good point! Running in isolation does reduce the amount of sensitive things an LLM has access to though, which typically can be quite a lot (SSH keys, Cloud credentials, communication tools, etc.)
I've had LLMs assist me in putting together the comparison. I did edit it, and found the comparison good and wanted to keep it. The rest of the post is all hand written and thoroughly manually tested.
TLS doesn't help here, because state actors (including China, Russia) own trusted root certificates, which allow them to TLS-terminate for _any_ website they choose and silently decrypt/MITM the traffic.
1ox seems like a year's supply for an average person.
A really heavy smoker can consume up to several grams a day. Let's say 5 grams, that'd be 150g per month (5oz per month).
Agree that it's hard to argue for 200 plants being personal use; 20 would be more realistic. For 200 plants, it's a big operation! Also, you can grow them in like 3-month cycles too.