So I have an old laptop I want to put to work. It’s dunning Debian stable and I want to use it to mine some monero. It’s an old dell with 4gb ram and a celeron from windows 8 era.
Can I mine without damaging the device. Doesn’t matter if it’s slow or unprofitable I just want to get some without murdering my machine.
If possible I’d like to still be able to use it for normal stuff.
People who don’t have enough space to run a local node often talk about this: https://gupax.io/guide/
It may be difficult to get 5 € / mo, but maybe a few €…? There is also some kind of “ruffle” and, although unrelated to mining, recently a zero-fee fundraising website appeared in case you need it.
I have the storage to spare, like 200 GB to spare. Just don’t want to permanently damage my CPU or anything
CPU should be okay. Mining or not, SSD will get broken eventually. If you have 200 GB now, then running a local node is also an option. Up to you.
Its a hard drive, not ssd, one of those spinners
You can try & share your experiences. I’ve never used a non-SSD for a full node, hence no experience-based knowledge about this but it should work. Just don’t expect too much, you may just get a few cents from time to time. Also if your CPU is 32-bit, your options are probably rather limited.
Its a 64 bit but I don’t see the pint. Not much monero can be made
I don’t think HD is easier to break than SSD; it’s just that with SSD read-write is faster and thus more convenient/efficient for a full node. You can try; HD should be okay too. If it’s a 64-bit, everything should be fine, tool-wise. For the Raffle thing, chcek https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/
Happiness is not just about money (profitability): trying new things that you’re interested in is purely fun. Perhaps you can learn a lot of things via experiences. Also, this is going to be exciting and fulfilling. When you see the BLOCK FOUND! for the first time, it may be super exciting (even if the reward is just a few cents). Also, when you first send Monero successfully using your own local node, without depending on any remote nodes at all, it doesn’t feel bad. Like, “I’m independent!” “It may be a mini branch, but I am my own bank!” so to speak :) Good luck.
Your machine won’t die, you can also turn it down to less cores if you want, just via the command line tool you use to start it.
https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/mining/
Try it, for fun. See how it goes, you’ll learn something and gain experience :)