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?

No it’s not. Someone just made that up.

Most roosters wouldn’t normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!

Whoosh. The point is “the roosters” don’t seek anything at all. It could be 50 lbs. of delicious cow shit, but if you don’t put it down in front of them, they’re not going to go looking for it.

Please read my comments in their entirety before replying.

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.

Just because if it were opt-in, people wouldn’t have chosen to activate it

Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever, regardless of what they like or want.

If you put a button in the settings that did nothing but automatically generate a $5 bill, no one would click that either.

We hear you. We’re listening. We just don’t care.

Another reason sideloading is important.

If it’s opt-in it may as well not exist. For whatever reason, they have decided it’s important.

Everyone hates AI so I don’t understand what mozilla had to gain by bringing in AI

Same as everyone else

Are you on FF148?

Govts around the world should be funding all sorts of FOSS projects. I know they do to some degree but not much. It benefits the whole world and only hurts big tech.

I live in a very tech-forward city. Was talking with some friends from Google and Cisco last night. One was talking about their KPIs for mandatory AI use and how coworkers are sharing internally new associated vulnerabilities every day. The other was the one responsible for pushing it and simultaneously talking about how much damage it was doing to the company. 😂

Amazon has reached out to its vendors and instructed them to increase retail prices on competitors’ websites

This is and has been part of Amazon’s contract to be listed on their site since the beginning. They are not even remotely the only one doing this. It’s an industry norm in digital storefronts. Valve has also been sued for this several times. I don’t know why we’re acting like this is a recent discovery.

We need to just ban this practice, because as long as they’re allowed to, they will.

It would be really smart if devs just started implementing “sign in with Mastodon” or something on new projects but unfortunately they do not.

This is why I use Bazzite. It just updates on the background and I don’t have to think about it. Although ideally there would be an “update and shut down” option like in Windows. Kinda baffling that that doesn’t already exist.

I mean all headsets suck, really. I went through a few of them before just picking up a USB mic and plugging normal headphones into it.

Yes she does LOL

You said they don’t need to be a gamer. How can someone not be a gamer and know absolutely anything about XBOX? That seems like a bare minimum?

I’m honestly completely blown away at the number of people who think a CEO does not need to know absolutely anything about the product they’re supposed to be selling…

this ain’t the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial

“Superficial”?

fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.

Good news: that premise doesn’t exist, you can install it on used shit as well.

if you think this thing is a good idea, that’d be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else.

No it’s more like if 90% of PCs came with a locked bios.

gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that’s why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere.

No there are numerous reasons why GOS is superior for most people. Mostly a combination of privacy, security, and ease of use. Also rapid updates.