I was given a powerful PC. Can I make money with it?

Question

My work gave me a very powerful computer - MacBook Pro M1 fully decked out. Is there any way I can use it to passively (and legally) make some money?I'm not so creative, so making a YouTube channel where I appear / writing blog posts manually, etc is not my cup of tea.

r2_pilot · Accepted Answer

Don't use company resources for personal use.

cpach · Answer

Computing power is cheap and plentiful these days.My answer is therefore: No.

allears · Answer

Sell the computer.

l3uwin · Answer

Not worth it on a work device and not very lucrative either.if it were an x86 machine with a gpu you could set up a a vm with gpu-passthrough and rent it out as a remote docker context for CUDA jobs on vast.ai or render but otherwise no.

I was given a powerful PC. Can I make money with it?

My work gave me a very powerful computer - MacBook Pro M1 fully decked out. Is there any way I can use it to passively (and legally) make some money?
I'm not so creative, so making a YouTube channel where I appear / writing blog posts manually, etc is not my cup of tea.

Don't use company resources for personal use.

Computing power is cheap and plentiful these days.
My answer is therefore: No.

Sell the computer.

Not worth it on a work device and not very lucrative either.
if it were an x86 machine with a gpu you could set up a a vm with gpu-passthrough and rent it out as a remote docker context for CUDA jobs on vast.ai or render but otherwise no.