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The reason that current FahCores produce higher PPD in Linux is because there's less overhead in Linux (this may or may not change in the next version of FahCore). From my understanding, the implementation of WSL 2.0 uses a lightweight virtual machine via sub-features of Hyper-V. Thus, the question...

I would say as a first step for making it more user friendly, remove the passkey requirement for bonuses, that just confuses so many newcomers looking from the number of posts with missing passkeys. The passkey separates those who can read from those who can't... :mrgreen: Really, the information i...

If someone cares about points, i don't know what to say, but people do... If you wanted to make FAH more popular - give people free PC games, for each x points, people like getting things for free. And so many gamers would join and share that with their friends, or advertise that on stream. Or give...

Maybe someone with access to historical stats can create a graph to show the progress?

If an official website gets compromised, so does the PGP signature. Windows and Mac won't install unsigned software, but it's not unheard of signing keys being stolen. But that does add an extra step for attackers. Supply chain attacks are getting more common. Security is about minimizing risks aft...

JimboPalmer wrote:expect Core_21 again and slightly lower PPD)

Is that just a difference of points assignment, or genuinely the science stuff is done slower on Core_21?

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I'm happy to see the interest in CV-19 but also miffed that it wasn't there for Cancer or Alzheimer's. When (hopefully) a vaccine is found for CV-19 will all these new folders and the new hardware melt away? I expect so. But will this current situation of failed up...

If people choose to download Windows from somewhere other than Microsoft they would be foolish. Same here. It's not for FAH to fix people who choose to do stupid things. We have seen instances where official websites of some software were compromised and the installers were replaced with malicious ...

It depends on your specific laptop, of course. I suggest you run a few WUs CPU-only, and then run a few WUs GPU-only, then compare the PPD for both. As Joe_H mentioned above do make sure to complete all pending WUs when you switch slots. I would even say there's a chance that CPU+GPU would not make ...

jcoffland wrote:For the record, you can donate to WUSTL via https://foldingathome.org/donate and 100% of it goes to Folding@home.

Do I need to fill in my complete address information there? I don't live in the US so it shouldn't be relevant, right?

The software has two IP Addresses for Assignment Servers hard coded into it, so it would be very hard for a man in the middle attack to succeed. The assignment servers give the client a work server, also via a hard coded IP Address. So your software cannot easily be deflected to talk to a fake Fold...

I would try just quitting the client and starting it again, see if it helps

I think we have to be honest to the folding community. Saying that a Core 2 Duo does great help is a lie. Maybe a few hundred-thousand would be. But then other factors like power consumption etc have to be considered as well. That is for the scientists to decide, if a machine returns a WU before th...

Difference between the versions isnt massively relevant to Linux Users. I use 7.4.4 and have done since it came out. I launch and run it from a custom method that everyone says is wrong, but it works well for me and gives me slightly better PPD than using the accepted method. i keep to myself for t...

The question is, can you send back to them without them rejecting. Mine has had no issue receiving workunits from those servers, it just wont send them back. As of today yes they are accepting finished units, with collection server 52.224.109.74. For the sake of investigation I decided to block bot...