I’m so glad I don’t ‘sideload’ anything, never learned how. I have been installing software since the 90s though and it’s pretty much the same as always.
Joke aside, it really seems more like ‘sideloading’ when you go to a store, to ask it to install something on your phone instead of just installing it directly on the device.
Scrollone@feddit.it 21 hours ago
We should stop calling it sideloading as if it’s something bad. It’s just installing.
It’s my device FFS!
mPony@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
how DARE you threaten stockholder value like that !
;)
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
It’s a term few decades old, and means transferring files between local devices.
You download the app on your pc, you sideload it to your local device (your phone) using ‘adb sideload file.apk’, and you use that installed app to upload pictures of your mom.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I usually download apk directly to my android devices and install from there, no pc or other device is needed. So your whenever is for me almost never.