• 0x0@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    the term “sideloading” is pretty irrelevant.

    No, it’s not.
    “Installing” is innocuous and easily understandable (by those tech-illiterate dumbfucks that get spoonfed FUD by lobbyists); whereas sideloading is eerily similar to sidestepping and is prone to being interpreted as “working around a safeguard”.

    Words are not irrelevant.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 hours ago

      Right? Anyone who has been paying attention to the healthcare thing in america should know that what you call something influences immensely what people think about something. Just look at the difference in support in polling when they call it the affordable healthcare act OR obamacare.