Yes, I would, and I now do - same way as I'd imagine the developer is clogging up his system when rendering.
My computers are on 24/7 anyways - who turns off their computer these days?
The software I linked to is free - I set it up and it works fine. I now share my resources for people to use, and I set my price to 0. Only thing missing from this, is to limit usage to projects I wish to selectivly support only. So I'll look into how this could be done.
I really dont see the problem here. You seem very negative to my proposal for a community based appreciation of a game many loves. My only point was, I'm personally willing to offer my computer resources for projects like this - my system is idle for 12-16 hours a day (while at work+when I sleep) and I assume others are in same position.
Looking at how bitwrk solution work, it's a close to zero effort to send a smaller piece of renderwork to a remote node for processing.
Too bad for you GPU it got burned out. In my country, consumer rights would have given me the right to swap for a new as eletronic components are supposed to last for 5 years. But I guess other contries do not have this consumer protection.
So, I am sorry for you not seeing the possibillities for projects like this to get some help from it's community when surely the resources to set it up is available.