This might be educational: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional.html

There are issues that the Optional class alleviates that are common enough to be documented: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/inspectopedia/ConditionalCanBeOptional.html (more detail is available at places like https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/a2d32ec64ed0fb37c7cc97856aa94cce95b17ee5/java/java-impl/src/inspectionDescriptions/ConditionalCanBeOptional.html (I believe this information used to be visible with the “inspectopedia” URLs but I don’t see that today))

On the other hand, it seems there are some features / situations that require null to be present: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining https://www.jetbrains.com/help/inspectopedia/OptionalToIf.html

If you’re not trying to change other people’s behavior, what are you doing?

Finding sources you can trust is helpful. For example, I trust the ArchWiki and POSIX.1-2017, and I follow instructions I find there, which helps me accomplish things without having to spend time thinking about the rationale of those instructions (since the instructions have probably been independently reviewed many times, and if there was something wrong with them I’d probably have heard about that). It would probably also be helpful to be able to trust instructions at https://libretube.dev/ for similar reasons.

I don’t think keeping my thoughts to myself is a good idea, since I don’t want other people to disrupt my life (unintentionally or intentionally), and giving notice about how I want to spend my life is helpful.

I do think my comments are helpful (and that helpfulness is relevant). If I didn’t think that I wouldn’t be commenting.

Thanks! I believe that is the original source!

I don’t think you answered my questions.

I started discussing your likes and dislikes, as an Internet forum is for conversation. How you choose to engage in that conversation is your choice, but it doesn’t mean a conversation isn’t happening.

The reason replied to you is that I wanted to rebut statements that I consider to be incorrect, and to save other people from taking time to do that and from seeing your comment go unanswered. I don’t really care about your replies other than to accomplish those goals. You may perceive that as being disingenuous (though I suspect your behavior is more related to the fact I have disagreements with you, or some preexisting inclination), but I don’t really care about that.

Assumptions do change people’s behavior, probably in many significant ways every day: “it doesn’t have to be fact to cause people to act”. Perhaps you should spend more time expressing your opinions in a compelling way so that people have more knowledge, and therefore don’t need to hold as many assumptions.

Those URLs came from about:addons. I think it’s important to provide as much provenance as I can to help people get programs, so I didn’t edit the URL Firefox provided to me.

I think it’s not worth putting much more energy into my quest for the exact source of this image, due to the reason you mentioned (and the fact tumblr.com is harder to use than I’d like), and the information I’ve found so far is satisfying. If someone does manage to share a link to the source I’d still appreciate it!

I do find the screenshot funny regardless!

I haven’t been stopped from watching YouTube videos for several months now, despite the fact I use different devices at different times. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link

I did have problems using YouTube many months ago, but I tried to watch a few videos each day and after a few days things started working normally again.

Do you like a compiled app differently from source code used to generate it? Your previous reply made it seem that is true.

Am I incorrect in thinking that a compiled app can be assumed FOSS when the text “License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later” is on the page I use to install it, along with a link to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html

I remember seeing that before seeing this post, it’s surely what I was looking for! Thank you!

I don’t see “Nice Guy” mentioned there, but it is possible to find using the links I posted, and I do see “Creature” there.

This is interesting, but I was mainly interested in finding the exact post that allowed this screenshot to be created.

You don’t like a compiled app differently from source code due to it not being FOSS. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say you would prefer the compilation process to be more easily verifiable for you.

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.

I expect this discussion is regarding apps like LibreTube, the license of which is “GNU General Public License v3.0 or later” and is available free of charge.

The GNU General Public License grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge:

Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this License.

The GNU General Public License can be applied to programs:

You can apply it to your programs, too.

An app (that is compiled) is a program:

An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.

Therefore, a compiled app with the GNU General Public License applied is FOSS.

I haven’t been able to find the original post this is a screenshot of.

It does seem that “afemwolfboy” does like the “Animal I found at a zoo” since they’ve reblogged it many times:

• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/748950168820416512?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/748954637655228416?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/748995325979705344?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749004244693221376?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749035693204963328?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749071777177714688?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749078858836426752?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749135646751408128?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749188958764810240?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749194247194001408?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/afemwolfboy/749233389364822016?source=share

I like that this is a higher quality follow-up to this post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18459959

I recall there was another similar Lemmy post using this concept art of gman in a kitchen that had text like “JUST GOT CALLED” and “FAT AT THE COMPANY CHRISTMAS PARTY” but I failed to find it. I expect that post inspired this one. Does anyone know how to find that post?

It’s interesting to see drewtoothpaste unexpectedly

Wiktionary and thefreedictionary.com express that this phrase refers to the subjective belief of a person telling a joke (and I believe that extends to someone laughing at one) rather than that every joke expresses some objective truth.

However, this brings up the idea that subjective biases can prevent someone from actually understanding reality, so independently declaring that something is "100% false" is still dubious.

Do link-aggregation platforms like Lemmy have a documented method for marking things as true or false, other than by trying to change the relative number of upvotes? Community standards regarding what content should be most prominently displayed are documented for Wiktionary and Wikipedia.

Regardless, I don't want to discuss the implications of an aphorism on racism, as any disagreement in that discussion may be interpreted as being against the rules of our instances.

What problems do you have most often? Can you come up with a description of a class of problems you have that would account for most of the time you spend troubleshooting?

Who provided the documentation you used to install a Linux operating system you had trouble with? I don't recall having serious issues after installing openSUSE or Fedora Linux or even NixOS, and I certainly don't recall having any issues of above-average importance that weren't a direct result of my intentional actions (e.g. trying to permanently change what DNS servers would be used).

In everything funny there is a trace of something true, so I disagree that anything on this page is 100% false

I don't know but this page might help one find the answer: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+kernel+does+android+run

I was primarily noting that I usually don’t engage in unnecessary and unproductive customization, as there will always be some way you could meet your desires a little better, but unless you’re creating and documenting an automated system like https://larbs.xyz/ or even just “copy this file to ~/.profile” your customizations will eventually be lost when your system fails, leaving you with new reason to spend more time customizing.

As the video I linked said: if computers are as powerful as the universe and the universe was created in billions of years, you may only be done customizing billions of years from now (and at that point you will have had even more billions of years to come up with new ways you want to improve your customization).

If I’m spending time on something that won’t result in an update to a git repository, or a Lemmy comment, or even speaking to someone in person or me acquiring more property, I consider it more frivolous than not.