cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70550004
I caught mine mining btc
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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You wouldn’t download a virus.
Oh, wait
Oh no I'm overheating how do I avoid thermal throttling
I heard better cooling solutions help. Have you tried eating icecream?
Ice cream is a bit of an uneven cooler solution, only cooling selective components that might not be involved with any actually productive processes, which may then end up drawing more power if the thermal throttling is deactivated for those parts. So you'd be getting better cooling in total, but it won't be evenly distributed.
That's why things like cold wraps are more effective: They're water cooling for heat sinks covering large thermal conductors that will reduce the total system temperature and help avoid a catastrophic shutdown.
Mitochondria is the Napster of the cell.
Lars is the virus.
If every cell in my body was seeding, you'd be able to download The Bee Movie in like 2 seconds.
Do you also have Shrek
Back before writing when everything was oral history this was technically true. I mean files were stories and peer to peer transfer was telling each other stories.
? That has nothing to do with viruses?
True but also the image didn't either?
Are we talking about the same image? Because the image I'm talking of says: (my emphasis)
fun fact:
your internal body temperature rises when you are infected because viruses are using your body for peer to peer file sharing
Ok fine, it used the word virus, I just didn't consider that the primary point. Sorry if I upset you with my response earlier
Not upset, just confused.
The joke of the meme is that computer viruses will use your RAM to do stuff like mining crypto which will heat up your computer. Now the meme claims that biological viruses do the same with your body. This is wrong (obviously) because the body heat is actively done by the body to kill off the virus. Your comment has nothing to do with any of this so I was confused
I think you misunderstood my post. My point was not that viruses are trying to give you a fever. My point was that thousands of years ago this was true. Random stories were files, story telling was file sharing, telling a story by definition burns energy so increases heat. Anytime you use energy you make some amount of energy which gets burned off and often results in atleast minorly increased temperatures.