So it doesn’t apply when I click the big button which says ‘Install’ on F-Droid app on my phone?

Please note the use of quotes. I was using “installing software” the way you were, as in literally any software. Whereas this does not apply to apps in the Google Play Store. That’s why the distinction is important.

Just like installing software from the ‘secure’ Google Play store.

Yes, just like that, except a higher level of risk, because potentially no one is verifying the validity of said software. And as I already explained, there’s no technological way for the OS to differentiate a legitimate source like FDroid from a random sketchy website on the internet.

Installing software is installing software, no matter where you get that software from

Except it’s not, because sideloading is different, as you know, if you actually read the OP, and if you actually read my comments where I already explained how it’s different.

Now I’m done repeating myself over and over, so unless you have something new to contribute to the discussion, I’m out. Have a nice day!

To me that implies it’s somehow different than just installing software.

That’s because it is, as I’ve just finished explaining. Again, see the “advanced flow” in OP? This does not apply to “installing software”. It only applies to sideloading. I’m not sure why this is so difficult to understand.

You could say ‘install from play store’ or ‘install from f-droid’ if you need to specify which app repository you should use

That’s true, if you were referring to a specific repository, but the term “sideloading” does not refer to any specific repository, as you know.

From the article:

None of this says “sideloading” or refers specifically to the term, it refers to the practice.

Google tries to twist that to mean something only ‘power users’ do and it comes with a ‘educated risk’.

You’re incredibly naive if you think anyone other than “power users” are sideloading.

And it does come with risk, because it might come from a reputable source like FDroid or it might be a random app from some unverified (by anyone) sketchy website, and the system has no technological means to tell the difference.

Do you consider installing games to you PC

This is not a PC though. Whether you or I like it or not, they are different. And no one wants to type out “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store” every time. It’s a useful term.

Sideloading is a made up term

All terms are made up.

to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify

[Citation needed]

People keep saying this but it makes absolutely no sense. The term predates both Apple and Google, and nothing about the term itself suggests it is “dangerous”.

Better yet, politicians

Yes, it is, thank you.

The advanced flow is not for “installing apps”. It’s for sideloaded apps.

Breezy is great but it’s not even consistent with itself. Go into a different part of the UI and get completely different numbers.

Hey I am an outdoorsman and I find it difficult to find data about rain, specifically quantity of rain, hourly and daily. Is there a good way I can access this info from your site?

How is this “moving” on BSky and not fedi?

Yes you can

Look at you. You are the cloud now.

I use my computer for simple tasks and can power through double that pretty easily. My family is full of Mac sheep who are constantly coming to me to make their computers faster and I have to tell them I can’t help because their machine was deliberately kneecapped by the OEM and there’s no way to fix it. Fortunately one of them just upgraded to the new Air w/ 16GB and they remark how much faster it is. Obviously it’s faster in lots of other ways, but none of those would do anything if they were still capped at 8GB.

A handful of apps and a few browser tabs will do it. I can go through twice that fairly frequently.

They said websites, not website

Again, no.

Not “probably”. They were. For the last decade, up until like last year. And they were awful, and a ripoff. At least they’re not trying to charge $1k+ for this one.

in the Linux world, 8GB is fine

Yeahhhhh no

Lemmy and PieFed are not analogous to BlueSky. That would be more Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc. So, in just about every other case, yes.

Well what’s the answer? Is he garbage?

But Gary Vee told me NFTs would make me rich!