@wide_eyed_stupid @Gsus4
They're "sideloading" our vocabulary
Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder
wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I fucking hate that word. It’s not ‘sideloading’ to install on my own device what I want to install, to use the apps I want to use; to not use the apps I don’t want to use. I am not ‘sideloading’ anything when I install programs on my PC. No different on my phone.
Fuck off with all these new bullshit terms that are only used to imply that what we’re doing (with our own devices) is somehow outside the norm, to justify the constant enshittifcation and the growing stranglehold these corporations want on our lives. It’s infuriating.
RnDanger@infosec.exchange 10 hours ago
arararagi@ani.social 9 hours ago
I’m sure there’s something in the EULA about how it’s actually their device and we are just licensing it, just like software. I hate this tech feudalism so much.
wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You know, it’s very possible, because I’ve never actually read an entire EULA, I don’t think.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
It’s not a “bullshit new term”, it’s three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.
The most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .app on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.
Sideloading.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.
If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.
lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 8 hours ago
@JohnEdwa @wide_eyed_stupid indeed. but it takes only a single incendiarily indignant but factually wrong mastodon post to force anyone left who's still reading wikipedia to clarify forever.
lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 8 hours ago
@JohnEdwa @wide_eyed_stupid the correct take would be "i should be free to sideload software to my devices in any way i please".