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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At that point you might as well run Folding@home on your PC just to act as a heater. It’s literally a win-win for you and for society.

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  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s always been on my mind to find something for my computer to idle on. Never heard of “Folding@home”. Thank you I’ll try it out.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re welcome! Folding@home is the big one, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search is also pretty popular (though IMHO a waste of resources for a relatively useless result). But I just looked into this topic myself after posting that comment, and turns out there’s a huge list of such “volunteer computing” projects: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr…

      So while Folding@home is a great one and medical scientific research, you might pick something else from that list. Perhaps more than one!

      Now the confession: I’m a hypocrite. I never ran any of these volunteer computing projects on my own PCs. But that’s partly because I tend to shut them off every night, so a lot of the usable time for it isn’t really usable. The other part is basically that I never bothered to do it.

      But I think after this conversation reminded me of it, I might look into installing it on my PC!

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      • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I used to do it for SETI@home and a few other projects. Haven’t in a while now but maybe I will again since my server pc never shuts off anyway.

        Back in the day I used boinc or some such to interface, it sort of looked like a torrent page, with progress bars on the tasks and stuff. It was kinda neat having an impact.

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      • bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Based confession

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    • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You should check out the great internet mersenne prime search as well: mersenne.org

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  • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I literally did that one winter when I lived in a small studio and I had a particularly fancy salvaged HP workstation. It was great!

    (Except I was missing an apparently important fan and most of my RAM went bad, 96G out of 128. Make sure your system cooling works correctly before trying this!)

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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    archiveteam is another suggestion, though more helpful to historians than health science

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• motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  running FFXI and later WoW on my first rig (many moons ago) allowed me to keep my room nice and balmy all winter, to the point where I’d leave a window open for much of the day during snow-supporting temps and it’d still be toasty

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