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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s a word the industry made up to make installing your own software sound dangerous.

[citation needed]

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jasep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The term “sideloading” has been around since the 90s. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  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.
  
  Sounds like it was something very different back then…
  
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merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
ulrich!

now you are lars ulrich. How many ulrichs can you be?

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh merde! You caught me!
  
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