Maybe it has a link with the proprietary webauthn lib that is still included in the build even though it is supposed to be excluded ? Or because the guardian project already has its own repo so it would be pointless to publish it in these two places at the same time ?
No the guardian project website has been saying it is coming soon to fdroid for quite some time so they do have the plan to put it there. And having your own repo is different than being on fdroid’s one. And yeah they do have the link problem but come on its been quite some time atleast give us chumps an update so we don’t wait for nothin .
I tried to ask Bing AI to do that for me but apparently “Taylor Swift eating a McNugget flown to her mouth by a tiny airplane” violates their content policy, so they blocked it.
Trying a different AI now but all I’m getting so far is Taylor Swift eating strange McNugget-based burgers inside an airplane.
Update: now I’ve also gotten a picture of her eating an airplane in front of a McNugget-based burger. Getting closer, but at this rate it’s probably faster to just make a picture of her eating a McNugget and then shop the plane in.
EDIT: ah fuggit McNugget, I’m done trying. This is the best I could do:
If you’re gonna go for the unusual, you have to fully commit to it. Don’t stop halfway, because it’s gonna be cringe. But if you go all the way, they will call it art, and they’ll pay you multiple times over what you paid for it.
With art, there is an inverse relationship between the number of people who will buy it and how much they’ll pay for it. Art everyone wants is cheap, niche art is expensive.
If you go full send, you can charge more if the stars align and you can find a buyer.
Well, to bring it back to the OP, the problem here is they clearly didn’t go full send. It’s definitely tacky, but not tacky enough. How about some gold fixtures and doorknobs? What’s up with that hideous tiling behind the stove? Why is there a regular old ceiling light and not a friggin’ Svarovski chandelier? Spend another 15 grand on those and you might find someone who’s willing (and high enough) to pay you 20% over ask.
What I’m saying is that it’s a tradeoff. The fuller the send, the harder it is to find a buyer, but the more they’ll pay.
Conversely, the emptier(???) the send, the more buyers will be interested, but the less you can charge.
I think going tackier would let them charge more if they found a buyer, but it would make it even less likely to find a buyer. This is already a full enough send the they’re struggling to find anyone interested, send it any harder and there would be no chance.
Yes, but that sorta implies that it’s a linear relationship, which it likely isn’t.
I’m thinking it’s probably more like the uncanny valley, with a trough in the middle where your send is neither full enough nor standard enough to find ANY buyers at all. Then again, there were quite a few commenters here who said they love it so perhaps I’m wrong about that.
We’re both just speculating here. I’d be interested if anyone has done any studies on this, I doubt it. Not really something useful for society.
I was basing my speculation off of the very little I’ve learned about the sale of art (paintings, etc) where art with a broad appeal doesn’t go for much, but niche art will sell for much more if you can find a buyer. But I’m sure there are depths to that of which I’m completely unaware, and I’m sure it can’t just be applied to home renos just like that. I just get a gut feeling that there are some parallels.
Well, yes. The Wikipedia article I linked does indeed say that this is a hypothesis, which means it hasn’t been conclusively proven yet. But it does also list a number of reasons that lead to this hypothesis being proposed, and there’s a long-ish paragraph on the research that has been done on it. But yes, as long as it’s a hypothesis, it’s still in the realm of speculation.
It seems however that your experience does somewhat back that up, judging by the “if you can find a buyer”. Basically, what I’m saying is, that if depends on or determines whether an artwork falls into the uncanny valley. If you can find one, it was on the other side of it. If you can’t, then it was in it.
Basically, picture the graph from that article, but instead of “human likeness”, we label the x-axis “artistic appeal”, and the y-axis “amount sold for”. Get rid of the dotted line, and on the solid line we replace “stuffed animal” with “broad appeal” and “corpse” with “niche appeal that doesn’t sell”, and the far end of it we label “niche appeal that DOES sell” and place it much higher up, to where “healthy person” is. Hope that makes sense.
I’m pretty familiar with the uncanny valley, and I don’t really think it applies to kitchens beyond as a metaphor. But then again, you could say the same about my relating it to the fine art market (and I cannot stress enough how little my expertise is in this regard lol).
Nothing with people IRL is ever a linear relationship so I imagine the truth is somewhere in-between lol
Like I said, it was just a speculation I had, because for me, this kitchen definitely falls into uncanny valley territory. A little more ooomph and it might have paid off, or a little less and it might have sold reasonably. But again, there were many commenters here who actually said they DID love it, so perhaps I’m wrong. But that’s assuming they actually have enough money to actually buy it, which at least some of them admitted they don’t.
It’s a definite no from me. The color scheme and that floor, just no. The stove sticking out, also a definite no.
All the cupboards also seem abnormally shallow to me, as if large plates would not be able to fit in the hanging cupboards. But maybe my perspective is confused because of a larger stove than I’m used to.
For me, that entire kitchen would have to be replaced after buying. We don’t know what corners this house flipper cut though, I would not trust this place to be done well.
The colour scheme is ok and is even used a lot by brands, but it doesn’t work at all for this kitchen. I can’t believe the kitchen company even agreed to it. As in, I would imagine they’d warn them it’s gonna be f*ing ugly and only go through with it when they insist.
I would argue that there is many ways to preserve wider appeal w.o. it having to be boring.
Heck even in this kitchen if all that was wrong was the paint job, you can fix that in a weekend.
But it is the floor and working top, the shape of the cabinets, the poor tiling and walls, the mismatch of the cabinets and stove, the lack of appliance space, the lack of windows…
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