schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoUnofficial TikTok downloads surge in the USwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgbbc@rss.ponder.cat
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minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down11·edit-25 days ago It’s a word the industry made up to make installing your own software sound dangerous. [citation needed] Prior to the bullshit ass Microsoft Store, sideloading was literally the only way to get shit on Windows. Yeah, I mean that made sense when it was the only way. There was no need to differentiate. That’s not the case anymore.
minus-squarejasep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 days agoThe term “sideloading” has been around since the 90s. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days ago The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically. Sounds like it was something very different back then…
minus-squaremerde alors@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoulrich! now you are lars ulrich. How many ulrichs can you be?
[citation needed]
Yeah, I mean that made sense when it was the only way. There was no need to differentiate. That’s not the case anymore.
The term “sideloading” has been around since the 90s. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading
Sounds like it was something very different back then…
ulrich!
now you are lars ulrich. How many ulrichs can you be?
Oh merde! You caught me!