Comments by "Juzu Juzu" (@juzujuzu4555) on "Adblocking Isn't As Simple As Do Or Don't" video.

I truly hope there would be movement in the likes of Linux that would create small software that allows all devices to be used for computations in the background. So you could "pay" usage of software or entertainment by having your devices do some work in the background. That would also allow people to rent their hardware to computing purposes, and even mobile devices when those are charging. Perhaps this is impossible, unfeasible etc. but one can hope. And I truly hope proof of work cryptos would die of fast.
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@izmoqwy2184 Because electricity is priced differently depending where you live etc. and on some places you would be happy to use any hardware just to warm up your house, that sort of software would need to have lots of configuration options. So that you could choose when you will sell your computing power and what is the price limit. And on mobile devices you would need even more of those options. Also you would need to limit Internet usage on some areas and with some connections. This sort of software would be a massive undertaking, so it would need a large group of passionate people developing it. Security is also huge concern. But as consoles like PS5, XSX, and mobile devices with loads of massively powerful accelerators, and of course laptops and desktop PCs, all are becoming massively powerful, eventually the value of performance on these devices just necessitate some software like this. The problem might be in the types of software that could run massively parallel with huge latency and without large amount of data transfers. Though the speed is increasing fast, and price of data transfer is becoming so low, that perhaps this will solve itself also. Using devices to compute things in the background while you are using software or watching videos is in many ways harder problem. Maybe not feasible right now, though there are certain possibilities, but it's really hard to communicate without writing a novel.
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@terrydaktyllus1320 You already have the hardware. If there were one simple software that you could run to make money, I think people would start to use it for sure. It would have to be really simple software though, and creating that software and maintaining the required network make it non profitable for a long long time. Mobile devices would compute only when those are connected with charger. You would leave your device on charger during the night. It's possible in theory, but almost impossible in practice. The problem is the huge amount of work required for creating amazing software that allows all the different devices to be used as computing nodes with native level performance. Though in the long run companies manufacturing devices would probably be onboard and helping with the software as this would boost the sales of the more expensive devices and probably boost the sales amounts overall. Same would happen with all hardware. Is there enough computational needs where you actually can parallel the problem well with lots of devices that have big latency, that's the question. If the answer is that there are lots of problems that would benefit from this, genomic research, molecular/chemistry research etc. to name a few, then this is feasible in theory. There are certain projects already. You can sell your GPU time for rendering tasks for example. And then there is BOINC and similar projects that allow you to participate in countless projects but you don't get paid. You could also have in the software that you would like to participate in projects where you don't get any money when there are no profitable projects for your hardware. Then you could choose the free projects you would like to support. This would certainly raise the amount of people who participate in those projects.
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