A Guy Walks into an Apple Store

Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by errantspark on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:16AM (#24916781)

At the end of the day all electronics are just space heaters with interesting side effects. It's getting cold and I'm using my GPU to heat my living space, it just happens to emit computation as well. Gotta keep gaming to capture the excess value!

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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by KMnO4 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:27AM (#24917528)

I did this several years back in university. Bitcoin mining wasn’t really profitable on my GPU, BUT it made enough to pay for its own electricity. I considered crypto to be a wash, but the real profit came from free heat.

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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by Qub3d on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:23AM (#24919022)

At the end of the day, all work* is just the production of heat with interesting side effects. Entropy is a cruel mistress.

*in the physics sense

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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by 4ggr0 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:36AM (#24916887)

The new solution to every problem on our planet: GAMING!

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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by faeyanpiraat on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:24AM (#24917888)

RTX 3090 SLI to the rescue

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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store by tarsinge on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:36AM (#24919984)

Maybe add some mass for inertia with a cast iron case so that it’ll continue to heat even after being turned off.

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