• 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.

        • Ulrich@feddit.org
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          2 hours ago

          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?

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            48 minutes ago

            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.