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Amazon kills sideloading in new Fire Sticks (unless you’re a developer) (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

We really need to kill sideloading as a concept. It's my hardware once I buy it. That's the way it's worked for hundreds of years. I won't tolerate this malarkey.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

~~side~~loading

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A friend says that the Onn devices still sideload and have more memory and storage anyway.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I switched from fire stick to onn box and it works good enough and can play emulators. I had to "side load" retroarch as the one in the play store didn't n't work as it wasn't the latest version. All I really care about is smart tube though.