I just did the opposite. Bought a low end Mac Mini M2 since I mostly use my main computer to remote into work and I'm mostly just in a Browser, Slack and Remote desktop all day. I figured that I'd might as well get something that uses less power since summer was coming and it's made a huge difference in my electricity usage (windows workstation/game machine power idles at about 250W) and heat generation in my small home office. Now if I want to play a game that's not on my mac I just turn on the Windows machine that's now in another room and then log into it with Parsec. Once I'm done I shut down the machine and I'm back to low power with just the Mac mini.
I contract a lot of work to build manage and build tools that directly integrate into Shotgun/ShotGrid. At it's most basic, Shotgun/ShotGrid is just a really nice front end to a database that has collections of schemas that align with the task workflows at studios that produce content for TV series, movies and video games.
Asset management is not as built in but there is some infrastructure there that can be leveraged.
Once the temperature within the furnace gets to about 900F I can't even really smell it anymore and the exhaust looks clear as far as I can tell in daylight. This is the benefit of using a large and well built wood furnace. Also all of the wood I use is dry which not only reduces the amount of bad stuff that gets into the air it also increases the usable heat from the wood.
I also live in a very rural area on a 1 hectare lot surrounded by other 1 and 2 hectare lots. I would not want to run this in a typical suburb and I agree with most the other comments that wood burning really shouldn't be a thing in densely populated areas.
Unfortunately for me my only other real option is electricity which can be relatively intermittent where I am and also expensive. It would end up costing $700-$1000 extra during winter months. I'm heating two homes with it. A newer one with walls at an R40+ rating and an older one with walls at a recently upgraded from nothing to an R20 rating. The money I'm saving on electricity will be going into add more insulation into the older home for even better long term benefits.
I have an outdoor wood furnace. It's great at cutting down smoke as it has a re-burner section that keeps the temperature high enough that their is almost no smoke once it gets up to temperature.
But there is a lot more maintenance with something like this. I have to have about 6 cords of wood to make it through winter (which mostly comes off my property) but that also means handling the fuel (bucking and then splitting the wood as well as having the space to let it season for a year to dry it). Filling up the furnace once or twice a day depending on the weather. Cleaning out the ash once a month. And now that it's getting older (8 years) I have to fix up some of the welds inside the main chamber.
I don't mind the extra work as it saves a lot of money in electricity bills and all that splitting of wood has been good exercise. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you have the time and energy to do the work.
Monitor refresh rate also makes a difference. I have a monitor that I use for video editing work which is locked at 24Hz. My "age" is consistently older when putting the window on that monitor than my main monitor at 60hz.