My bitcoin miners did this to my garage roof. I was waiting for a police search for a grow operation.
I wonder if some day we’ll see space heaters that mine crypto.
Pro:
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a major problem for miners is heat dissipation
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the chips commodify more every year
Con:
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retail energy costs more than wholesale energy
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heat pumps are more cost effective in most cases
Heat pumps are more efficient, yes, but people still use space heaters to heat small areas. I can’t pick up and move a heat pump around my home lol. Heating a small area a few more degrees is going to be cheaper than heating the whole house more a few more degrees (even with a heat pump).
The key is to live in an apartment and then install aluminum heat fins on every shared wall. Bonus points looks a little like a medieval torture chamber, but the real win is heating bill.
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Yes, Officer, a server farm.
This has actually happened a few times now. Police raiding bitcoin miners homes because they think its a grow house.
The LAPD did one recently on a medical imaging office because apparently it’s suspicious that an office full of XRAY and MRI machines uses a lot of power.
Is that the one where the idiot cop got his gun stuck in the MRI and hit the emergency button to shut it down?
Wait, what? 😱 Got a news link for this utter imbecile actions?
The first officer retrieved his rifle and left the scanner room “leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor.”
Nice when they refill the MRI and need to quench it again.
Unless he was using steel case rounds, most ammunition isn’t magnetic, it wasn’t going to cause issues with the machine… he’s still a fucking idiot though.
Absolutely gobsmacked at these complete fucking morons
If they were smart, they wouldn’t be allowed to be cops…
Thank you for the link. My (already low) faith in humanity just took a nose dive.
At least it looks like it hasn’t happened twice?
My favorite is the cop baiters. It’s illegal to use IR to identify grow houses in whatever state they operate in, so they aluminum foil the heck out of a house and crank the heat so it stands out. When the police come in based off a nonexistent anonymous tip, they’re basically caught breaking the law red handed.
Can’t find the video but I’ll keep looking.
Edit: https://youtu.be/uunOZexpHEI
I’ve seen that they also called in an anonymous tip about the house, which in itself is not enough for a warrant but the cops raided anyway.
Do you mean Barry Cooper with KopBusters?
Formerly a police officer in Texas, Cooper is best known for KopBusters, a series of online videos in which he attempts to document police misconduct, and Never Get Busted Again, a series of videos aimed at teaching citizens how to evade false arrest by the police.
You probably meant this Video about it that went viral.
Yes! Just found a news report about it a few minutes ago and added it but thanks for finding a fuller version.
This seems like a terrible idea. Even if you’re not committing any crime why would you want cops to pay attention to you?
They did it to expose the cops performing illegal searches.
I get why they did it, but I’m not bringing cops to my door as a gotcha.
The big crime here is that the police don’t arrest everyone in the house and do a full team photo-op in front of the racks before they demolish the property.
The author is German, and cannabis is currently decriminalized in Germany. Not saying there’s zero reason to have a clandestine growing operation, but the need isn’t as pressing as it usually is.
Cannabis being decriminalized does not mean there aren’t huge grow ops still. Most people who smoke cannot or don’t want to grow their own.
I literally said that I’m not saying there’s zero reason.
Well I can’t read! apparently.
The details on the ground level snowman are so good. The serpentine track where they rolled the big body ball first, then a smaller track for a smaller body ball. They thought this through. That’s what I appreciates abouts it.
Skwisgar?
Stops copies me!
Squirrelly-Dan
I thought it is two snakes who are building the snowman
In the future all furnaces will be replaced by in home servers
ok funny story about this actually. In the middle of winter our heater broke so it was really cold in the house. I had like 3 blankets covering me, but was still cold, so what did I do?
I put DOOM Eternal on my Steamdeck with the sound off and opened http://allblackscreen.com/ so it would show pure black and would act like a little heater to warm up my ‘igloo’ of blanketsWhy didn’t you just set your blankets on fire? Ez
This is an attic insulation issue. If your attic was insulated enough, you would have snow on the roof.
The heat transfer out the roof is dependent only on the indoor temperature, the outdoor temperature, and the attic’s insulation. None of those parameters depend on whether or not you are running a server farm (unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels, and prevents the furnace from even running.
unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels
Isn’t that the joke?
You have never visited /r/homelab, right? There are people with home server farms that draw multiple kilowatts. That will absolutely heat up your room to unconformable levels unless you have ample air conditioning
Multiple kilowatts is the equivalent of an iron, or a small space heater. Not that much in the grand scheme of things. Definitely not enough to heat a whole house to tropical temperatures. Maybe one room, but that’s it.
Keep in mind that the author is German and most parts of Germany have pretty mild winters. It’s extremely easy to melt the snow on your roof when the temperature is around the freezing point.
a decent sized server farm absolutely could raise indoor temperature
Hey, that gives me an idea. Bonsai weed, small enough to run its full lifecycle within the confines of a PC case.
This is 100% a thing. Basically just give it a flowering light cycle when it’s barely past the clone stage
Yes… “server farm”… sure. Around here a house producing that much attic heat is farming alright; but usually oregano or other herbs…
Why not both? They are so symbiotic…
Did anyone else see the comic, and get confused why the roof had blood all over the other two houses?
Took me a good 10 seconds to be like “oooooh…”
I’m just waking up. I guess the lesson here is, don’t wake up.
