• NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      45
      ·
      6 days ago

      “Side load” is just language used to mean installing software outside of the official approved vendor store. Linux lets you install software from wherever you want, you’re not locked into a vendor or manufacturer ecosystem. So in a sense all you do is “sideload,” it’s just normal non-corporate OSes call that “installation”

    • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      ·
      6 days ago

      Yeah we can do that. What do you think side loading means? Changing the name of an install doesn’t make it different. Back in my day we called it installing a program. Things changed. Then we called it downloading an app. Things changed. Now if it’s not approved it’s called side loading? Blow it out your ass.

      Its a program. Take the training wheels off of the Internet. I grew up when this was a cautionary tale. But up and deal with the consequences or get out.

    • cmhe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      6 days ago

      I guess you are joking? And mean “side-loading” as in injecting custom code via LD_PRELOAD and not the strange definition phone makers use for describing ‘installing an app’.