• ben@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    It’s still just installing software

    I’m not sideloading an app onto my desktop when I download an appx file from GitHub to install something instead of using the windows store, having a special term for installing an apk file outside the play store just obscures what’s happening

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      4 months ago

      Exactly. I’m not “sideloading” anything when I use brew on the Mac or when I use docker on Linux.

      The term sideloading started being used with the first iPhones, when people used to jailbreak them and “side-loaded” apps.