If you ever pick it up, a couple things to know: 1) your fingers will bleed until you've built up some kinda thick callouses. The E string is brutal. If you want to avoid that, do scales on the G and D strings until you have callouses.
\2) you don't need a $1,000+ violin, you certainly don't need the multiple $1,000+ bows you can find. Get a cheap ($250-$300) student violin to learn with, and if you get good enough to actually perform, then look at the expensive toys. (And good Lord do they get expensive quick.)
\3) some people will tell you not to tape your finger positions, some will tell you to tape your finger positions. I don't actually know if it matters, it certainly made learning the correct position for my fingers easier, and I haven't used the tape in decades since I stopped using my 3/4 size violin. What is important is that you do not get into the habit of resting the violin on your fingering hand. If you don't train your chin and shoulder to hold the violin by themselves, learning vibrato technique is damn near impossible.
For a "basic smithy setup" all you really need is a roof and a dirt floor. Sand would be better than dirt, but dirt can get you started. All my forges have started as a patch of bare dirt in my backyard with a simple pole and tin roof frame around the patch. I eventually dig it up to a depth of two feet and fill it with sand. I've only done this twice. Once you have the sand, cover the sand when you don't need it (to spill molten metal into) with 1/4 inch thick iron plates or steel plates. That keeps the sand where you want it.
Re: your username: after SDG&E decided that our palm was too close to the electric wires and needed to be removed, I have to disagree. That wood is horrible to try to work with. The tree ate two chainsaws.
Edit: Wait, were you asking for my personal activity? I was answering the question of how many users I see posting regularly. I learned a while ago that my posts don't matter, so I just comment.
I'll be honest here. The majority of the content I see from you is defeatist doomer shit. We don't need that crap at the best of times, but certainly not now. Take a break and see if your outlook improves, for you, but you'd probably feel better ditching the doomerism.
Call a fiduciary firm in LA and have them start The Sovereign Fund for Humanity's Poor, and promptly deposit all but $10,000,000 into that. I would hire 5 people to run it. Three fiduciary's and two data analysts. The fiduciary's must be from different financial centers, the data analysts must be from Oxfam. The purpose of the fund will be to use the ROI to create trusts for the poorest people in the world first. I'd basically be privatizing UBI in about 500 years.
This is the scene I was referencing. It's a fun movie to watch with your kids
https://youtu.be/93B072j-E3I