The trick to breaking this cycle is to suggest a time to hang when you first propose the idea. This makes it far more likely to actually happen I find.
I'm still not convinced the BIMI is all that useful as email security. Feels more like a marketing exercise to me but I am in an exclusively B2B org so it probaly doesn't matter as much.
A guy at work asked if he could use some similar pair of AR glasses at work and was rejected because the companion app for it required to always be running as elevated in windows. Was a solid no there.
The vast majority of my communication happens in signal thigh I still have whatsapp around for the small cadre of friends I am yet to convince to move over.
I reckon doing what Norway does and just tax them by the weight of the vehicle to to discourage people buying them while alps making those that do pay for the extra wear and tear in the roads they cause.
This does not solve the problem of the sheer volume that be created and need to be handled. Even moving single digit percentages of modal share over to horses in urban areas would create infrastructure problems that quite frankly don't need to exist as we have better solutions.
Plus as you allude to with the horseshoes animals are vastly complicated things to maintain.
I will say I'm very anti horse drawn transport. One of the great achievements of ICE vehicles is they replaced horses and fixed the very large issue of the massive amounts of horse manure urban centres across the world were dealing with.
Slight correction epic sold bandcamp in 2023 to Songtradr. Which isn't great as they're a huge music licencing org that I suspect will ruin bandcamp eventually.
Given you essentially made no money of this would you stick with crypto if you did this again or go with a more altruistic project such as folding@home as that would provide essentially the same heating effect?
I mean since the advent of SSDs I've not found the boot times of computers to be all that slow and I typically quite like coming back to a clean desktop on a new day rather than having junk from yesterday being thrown at me.
+1 for joplin, switched to it from Google keep a while back in I'm really liking it.