With my fans sounding like they're readying for liftoff again, I can't help but be reminded of one weirdo I saw a post from on either Lemmy or Reddit a while back--who did have a spare PC set up mining crypto to double as a space heater for his living room one winter. (He seemed to think that his whole little experiment worked out well, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
But, I am doing this shit on my gaming laptop strictly part time--FOR SCIENCE! 😹 May as well get some hopefully beneficial use out of that GPU and otherwise overpowered hardware when I'm not actively using it for much myself. Though I will sometimes set things like bread dough or culturing kefir jars behind the vents to take advantage of the waste heat. Good place to soften butter quicker too!
And thankfully most jobs do NOT run temperatures up into the 90s--which are actually pretty normal temps for a Legion laptop with the GPU running hard. Still a little concerning in terms of component longevity, and I will give it breaks when the fans have been going this hard for a while. (Why that one project is showing as suspended atm. This one is getting one more job before I pause it too.)
Yeah, BOINC is pretty much the successor to SETI@home, which I was running 20+ years ago on much shittier hardware. (Then there's Folding@home, which is evidently still going.) Only it's a platform that a bunch of different research organizations can distribute their projects through. Pretty cool stuff, and I do recommend checking it out if you haven't already.
