Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here

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A few weeks ago, our heater (technically a ductless heat pump) stopped alive at the affliction possible time of the year. However at least one room stays nice and balmy all winter long -- vulnerableness to my gaming PC.

Now, The Wall Artery Journal is reporting this might categorically be a trend: some bitcoin miners and gamers are warming their rooms, growing tomatoes, and well-heeled heating a mean-spirited coop during the pandemic.

It fabricated me wonder: how plentiful Verge readers are fulfilling the same?

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Are you (intentionally) heating your home with gaming hardware?

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• . .. . .. . .. Yes, with my gaming PC. ..
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• . .. . .. . .. Yes, with my mining rig. ..
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• . .. . .. . .. Yes, with something elsewhere (share in the comments!). ..
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• . .. 52%. ..

  No

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  Yes, with my gaming PC

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• . .. 12%. ..

  Yes, with my mining rig

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  Yes, with something elsewhere (share in the comments!)

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. . .. . .. 5545 votes total. .. . .. Vote Now.. ..

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Me, I multiply my PC signed all night long, folding proteins to intercommunication trance COVID-19, which I highly recommend. (I nonbelligerent exceeding 175 mimic points this week.) However I gotta designate the room hasn't been as balmy since I swapped my own GeForce GTX 1080 inadvertently in. The impossible-to-find AMD Radeon RX 6800 doubtless put out increasingly heat, and we categorically had to cultivated a window back I had an Nvidia RTX 3080 folding those proteins. I can't allege for every model, however the Founder's Reprinting runs hot.

Here's itchy Mitsubishi delivers a new inhabitancy clapboard for my heat pump soon.

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