If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project

https://programming.dev/post/1042285

If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project - programming.dev

Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer’s resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider. The good folks at linuxserver.io [http://linuxserver.io] even have a ready to go Docker container for easy setup: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/boinc [https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/boinc] Another possibility is running the Archive Team’s Warrior, which downloads data from at risk web sites and uploads them to the Internet Archive: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior [https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior] Does anyone else have examples of projects like this? My dream is for the Fediverse to have this sort of feature eventually.

What do you mean by “spare”? Modern CPUs scale their electricity usage according to utilisation.
I use a VPS. They don't charge based on CPU utilization so I run Folding@Home on it.
Please only do this on plans with a dedicated vCPU that isn’t shared with other users.
For now, until economics catches up with you :-) Enjoy it while it lasts I suppose.
For now, until economics catches up with you :-) Enjoy it while it lasts I suppose.