They've come a long way. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-25
(click above link for full comic)
NeatNit
joined 2 years ago
Horror movies never really work on me. I just find them boring. Jump scares might make me jump some of the time, but it doesn't actually scare me, it's just the surprise factor and my working reflexes. I think if I'm drinking soup I'll be able to suppress that reflex. Probably.
You'll have to pay me to watch the horror movie, but I'll pay to add the soup. Call it even?
0/5 stars. We stayed here for an infinite amount of time over the holiday. Every 10 minutes the staff moved us to a different room! We didn't even get a chance to unpack our infinite luggage.
Get out.
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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects
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!
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.
This is a fever dream.
Edit: To all those that took my geniune question about what historically lead to this, and turned it into accusations of me being some sort of thoughtless "asshole", [...]
I only see one comment doing that. Am I missing something?
Either way, this was a great question and I enjoyed reading it and the answers it got, so thanks for posting it!
(They're not. Oil in the ground is mostly trees.)
Where's the original post?
I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.
People still colloquially call it "BIOS" because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.