• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Sideloading isn’t a real term - there is only loading a better OS than whatever spy-tech google is offering.

      You can’t “sideload” hardware you own - you just install whatever software you like and prefer

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        17 minutes ago

        Exactly. It’s important that we stop saying “sideloading”, we should just say “install directly” or some other non-loaded expressions

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        12 hours ago

        Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, yes it is. I’m not typing out “installing software from outside the Google Play Store” every time, so you can go away.

        • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          8 hours ago

          You could go with something in between? Side loading is a loaded term created to insinuate we are doing something we shouldn’t be doing.

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                Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.

                The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

                Had I said “downloading” it wouldn’t have made much sense, would it?

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                  56 minutes ago

                  Yep, and that definition was definitely what you meant lmfao.

                  You’re obviously within spitting distance of the point, you basically spelled it out in your last sentence, just, I don’t know, reread your words slowly?

                • chunes@lemmy.world
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                  listen, I’ve been in technology since before i-drive existed and I’ve never heard of i-drive nor do I care about the vocabulary they used.

                  The first time I ever heard the term sideloading was when these mobile stores started using it to make other options sound illegitimate.