Post #182571

2025-08-27 03:27 UTC

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software. Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority: - sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon) - sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds) - sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt) - sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify) - sidechatting (irl instead of online) #android #sideloading #google #bullshit

Replies (13)

@quincy@chaos.social 2025-08-27 09:40

@StaticR ... sidereading

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@thegarbagebird@theblower.au 2025-08-27 10:15

@StaticR sideloading is when you run doom on it. everything else is sparkling installation.

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@prefec2@norden.social 2025-08-27 10:58

@StaticR it's the same approach, as with jaywalking.

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@lianna@micro.webgarden.click 2025-08-27 11:20

@StaticR Eh, the analogy doesn't quite work. When you cook a homemade dinner, you're not interacting with McDonald's at all, but when you "sideload" an app onto your Android phone, it's still Android. A more accurate analogy would be "bringing homemade food into a McDonald's", which... well, would be banned too. However, adding your local music library to Spotify, and adding your own local video games to Steam, both are a thing. The real question is whether Android is a service Google provides to you similar to a McDonald's restaurant (which by sideloading you're illegitimately changing) or a tool similar to a file manager, which can be used however you please. I'm also on your side obviously. It was just a bad analogy I think.

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@notsoloud@expressional.social 2025-08-27 13:22

@StaticR Also, @sidereal is refusing to inhabit the Matrix. Makes him a star, IMO

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@kyle_pegasus@scalie.club 2025-08-27 14:48

@StaticR missed the perfect opportunity to mention ngage

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@wststreet@ani.work 2025-08-27 15:54

@StaticR sidechatting: the process of having a conversation with another person without permission from google

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@luboganev@androiddev.social 2025-08-27 15:56

@StaticR I love that! I actually regret giving feedback to Google using the word side loading. It's so engraved into my brain I didn't think for a second. Thanks for the good take you posted.

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@mrsaturday@shitposter.world 2025-08-27 17:48

@StaticR >sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt) I'm glad that you thought of this before some ghoulish C-suiter did but I could easily see this catching on in the next 5-10 years as part of office culture

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@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com 2025-08-27 17:48

@StaticR What about sidesiding (eating only sides instead of the main course)? :blobfoxthinkgoogly:

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@Ree@shitposter.world 2025-08-27 17:49

@StaticR I guess there is no side doing you're mom

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@fraggle@social.coop 2025-08-27 18:10

@StaticR - sidereal (as opposed to measuring time relative to one particular star that just happens to have a monopoly on local gravitational effects )

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@kura@hai.z0ne.social 2025-08-27 11:13

@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org i am sidesocialnetworking

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