If it is opt in, it is a choice.
Would be interesting if you could throttle based on home temperature. I would much rather heat with useful computation than with electric heaters.
Would be interesting if you could throttle based on home temperature. I would much rather heat with useful computation than with electric heaters.
But you know that it will be enabled by default by the packages they give to OEMs, or "accidentally" in every update or system restart, and will trick less informed or less technical users into enabling it and all sorts of shenanigans like that because that's how these av software companies have been operating for over a decade, at least in the home consumer space.
The only right away to treat these companies is to assume the worst about everything they say and do. Unfortunately they seem to always find a way to do worse than those assumptions. When "they will make a lot of money and/or screw over a lot of users" is the outcome of their statement being a lie, then you should assume their statement is a lie.
Heat pumps, which will pump outside heat inside, are a lot more efficient.
So, "computation for heat" is only useful to the point that it's replacing a space heater or other resistive heat, or is focused in a place resulting other heat use by a lot. So, my computer could be a cost-effective way to keep my feet cozy.
This also presumes that cryptomining is "useful computation".
But why? An electric heat pump will be vastly more efficient.