Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sideloading isn’t an actual thing. It’s a word the industry made up to make installing your own software sound dangerous.

  All traditional Windows applications were “sideloaded” and back then it was just fucking called installing an application.

  Prior to the bullshit ass Microsoft Store, side-loading was literally the only way to get shit on Windows.

  Linux also always allowed you to install applications directly. Everyone just uses package management software at this point because it’s all well managed and easier to keep things updated, but you can still install things manually with make.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a traditional Mac user I also “side loaded” applications

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    • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a recent modern Mac user, this experience is so bizarre and is always a little different.

      I grew up on macs (thanks mom) and built a PC as soon as I had my first real job in highschool. I recently bought a MacBook for the promise of battery life and cool running. If only it was easier to get my arm windows laptop to boot Linux…

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sideloading doesn’t sound dangerous, if anything it sounds cool lol

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It sounds cool because it sounds dangerous

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The term “sideloading” has been around since the 90s. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

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    • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ulrich!

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

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux also always allowed you to install applications directly. Everyone just uses package management software at this point because it’s all well managed and easier to keep things updated, but you can still install things manually with make.

    You only need make if you’re compiling. Installating precompiled software is somewhat easier, since it’s basically just copying to /bin. If you know where that is, then it’s simple.

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    • privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      make install typically also handles copying things like libraries, shared assets, and docs as needed, but yeah precompiled software is usually a tar… or loading a downloaded package file into the package manager.

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    • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s even .deb, .rpm, flakes, whatever pacman uses, … that are just package files that copy to /bin/ for you, like .apk/.ipas.

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  • lupusblackfur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whew…

    Lotta words for a semantics quibble that amounts to a distinction without a difference… 🤷‍♂️

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  • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also felt like the author of the article ignorantly weaponized the name to make something completely mundane sound like a bad thing. They totally stomped right into the corporate moustrap while doing so. Why not call all app stores something like “corporate single source installation” or “[Microsoft/google/apple] assisted installation”? Maybe someone will write an article on the dangers of that.

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• RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, so now they realized how sideloading works after they bought phones with the app pre-installed.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I figured out why America is so dumb. Because they can’t go a day without scrolling through mindless garbage on Tiktok.

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