I would do this, why wouldn't you?

If you aren't using your computer, who cares. Not like you'll notice.

Tipping someone forces me to pay money I've already earned.

I can't be assed to set up a crypto miner on my laptop and manage the wallet and all that, it's not worth the few bucks to me.

But if it means making a livelihood to an open source developer, who collectively has hundreds of people doing this, yeah I would absolutely do that.

It also lets me support a larger number of devs. I realistically don't want to pay out $5/mo to dozens of devs. (Currently sponsor 4)

But if there's mining software that distributes profits against a pool of devs of my choosing, then sweet -- free money for them!