Mining?

Is mining still beneficial if I were to start right now? Or is it too much of a grind to even think about it

Depends, what currency your going to mine.

Bitcoin is sorta pointless to mine right now, I'd go with doggocoin.

Too much of a grind in my opinion, used to do it for Litecoin, even that was pointless on decent hardware

Unless you have a sick rig I don't think so since the difficulty goes up a lot since 2016 summer

i have tried this in past but not profitable for me not sure why