Thanks for the suggestions.  Good one about asking mining community, I may try that.  Yes, I realize what mining entails with asics or gpu's.  Obviously outside of the scope of mini's.

There are some different possibilities.  Like the suggestion about grass. Anybody doing it that can say what it earns?  I understand too that these things are likely to make pennies a day and not a living wage.   Just looking to maximize thing's I already pay for like my connection.

One example could be to have the pc mining monero (that's still a CPU mining algo right?)  that could probably co-exist with something like one of those "decentralized competitor to dropbox"  type of cryptos.  You could probably add one of those bandwith sharing sceme's also if you worked out cpu priorities correctly.  Although, i'm not sure i want to be involved with bandwith sharing.  I don't wanna be like a TOR exit node or something with scammers flowing off my home connection doing crimes.  Just giving examples.

I'm not sure how to move a thread.  If anybody tells me I will.  Otherwise I think I'll likely make a post in the mining area as that was a good suggestion.  I can leave a link to it here afterwards if anybody wants.  Thanks again!