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You shouldn't use the term sideloading to describe installing apps from alternative sources, that just makes it seem like it's some weird and different, possibly unintended thing. When it is an intended part of an open ecosystem.
Agreed.
Alternative app stores aren't sideloading.
When I think of sideloading, it's installing software without using an app store, because that's the name of the command in adb. You plug your phone into your computer, open a terminal, and do adb sideload path/to/my/app.
No? Please educate me
It's nonsense. These people expect you to say "installing apps from outside the first-party app store" every time you refer to sideloading and suggest that somehow the word has a negative connotation and was made up by corpos to keep you in their silos, even though the word predates the concept altogether.
It's not sideloading, it's installing, just not from the play store.
Don't call it " sideloading " calling it that just reinforces all the conditioning we have been given to believe that when anyone wants to install a software of their choosing on a device they paid for its called " side loading " its not all you did is install an app on your device and that's it.
I agree with this. It's installing an app. Installing a program to a computer you own should never be considered "unofficial"!
I call that ”installing software” on devices I really own, those with free/libre OS.
If they used "installing software" no one would know WTF they were talking about.
As a stinking elitist I live in a nice world where I don't have to care about what other people do.
And yet you cared enough to weigh in.
Nothing is more elitist than arguing semantics on a fringe de la fringe platform.
So you don't care but also simultaneously nothing is more important. Ok.
It’s as if getting into sideloading, piracy, and modding made me feel true online freedom and I can’t wait or imagine the feeling I’m going to have when I start self hosting.
I finally put some time aside to do this recently for my music collection and it has been very satisfying to stream independently across all my devices. I can even setup user accounts for my friends to use.
I love hardware that doesn't require sideloading. I bought the whole house, including the front door, and I will use the front door. If they don't allow me to use the front door, then I don't really own the house after all, do I, so what did I even pay for?
I quit Spotify and started using internet radio. Once a month, instead of giving $20 to a corporate overlord, I donate it to my favorite indy radio station playing fresh songs. Not the same pop BS over and over. Unique music from talented local artists around the world.
It does take a bit more time and experimentation to find some great stations.
SomaFM is maybe the best thing to ever exist
Ill just leave this here. WWOZ New Orleans. Guardians of the Groove.
Thank you, we should probably have a community for this.
It can be a very liberating feeling to only run the software you want and how you want to run it on your hardware.
Or you vsn just sync a microsd card. You dont listen to more than 1tb of music at stream quality.
majority of the applications i use are installed via f-droid. I couldnt even use my phone if i lost them. For example the default camera is piece of shit that just turns the pictures black and doesnt even have good options, while the open camera has everything one could hope for.
If you use Spotify, I'd pay for the subscription. If you don't want to pay for the subscription, I would download the music so that you have it on your phone.
Why would you give Spotify any money?
I do not give them any money as I do not use their service in any form. However, there are a few reasons you may want to if you do use their services.
- If you enjoy the service it is indeed in your interest that it is profitable and keeps on working.
- You're saving yourself on installing on your phone a cracked application which likely contains some malware.
- If you dislike Spotify for what they do and how they behave, you're better off not using the service altogether.
And I mean, they do offer you a way to listen to music for free anyway, they just have you listen to some advertisement. It is a fair exchange in my opinion. The pricing of their subscription is also fair in my opinion, it's some 10-15€/month and you can listen to all the music you want all the time, that is about the price of a single disc. If you don't like the advertisement and don't want to pay to listen, I'd turn to Soulseek rather than trying to use their service for free.
I myself prefer to have my own music collection and to buy the music from musicians I like, but I do see the advantages of a service like Spotify and I feel it is pretty cool that they offer their huge catalogue for free to anyone in the world.
As a musician, fuck Spotify, they pay next to nothing to the artists. Please pirate if Spotify is the only other option.
Pirate and put the saved subscription fees towards song and album purchases (from Bandcamp, for example) is the best way. It's the same with YouTube Premium - use a third party client to block the ads and save the subscription fee to donate to channels directly. It annoys me when people try to claim the moral high ground for paying subscription fees to big companies when they're actually just part of the problem.