Being called illiterate because someone disagrees with your definition of “sideloading” is a thing you can only experience on Lemmy.

That distinction is completely valid, but I think it ultimately misses the point of the “sideloading” discussion.

I think no one would disagree that installing apps on mobile devices via ADB (Android) or Xcode (iOS) is sideloading. But if I toggle the “Allow installing from unknown sources” setting on Android and install APKs through F-droid and other means, is that sideloading? You say no, the Wikipedia article about sideloading says yes. That also circumvents security features of the OS to install software. The difference comes down to whether or not a mobile OS provides an easily accessible setting for developer tools that facilitates the installation of software from other sources to the point where it becomes possible to automate it in a store-like fashion. It’s not a hard distinction and more like a continuum of how many hoops a user has to jump through to install and maintain software from other sources.

I think it’s useful to think of the “sideloading” discussion mainly from this user-oriented perspective. The technical distinction of needing versus not needing a separate device is technically valid, but it misses the point IMO.

Biology is a diverse and beautiful subject.

I get the good ones.

Nah, it’s fine.

For all of you who are as bothered about the axes as I am:

Regular multiplication? Sure. But this is Rustydrd multiplication, which assigns different values to products I don’t like.

Here you go. By the commutative property of multiplication:

2 + 2x4 = 2 + 24x

Rearranging this leads to:

x = -1/12

which means that x is the limit of the diverging series:

x = 1 + 2 + 3 + …

Left is nigiri, right is maki. Both are types of sushi.

Image quality is so bad, I can’t even tell if this is Euro, Ussie, or Aussie football.

There are two kinds of people: x and x.

Totally. I’m an introvert, and when my phone rings, I pick it up with no problem. I also immediately put it down again with no problem. Works really well, except when people decide to let it ring for what feels like eternity.

Having fun/fucking around with something is often a great way to learn about it. Follow your curiosity and see where it leads you.

Even people who have no issue with Musk put these on their cars. They know Musk is unpopular and do this to avoid vandalism.

“Gentlemen, to evil!” *clinks glass*

Oh, FIFA the game. Thank you, I was like “how do you use FIFA?”.

I don’t play Poker, so maybe one of you can explain this to me, because I’m not sure I understand this. If you go all-in and lose, your chips go to the other players. This means that, if you wanted to buy new chips and re-enter the game, you would need to buy more chips after each loss, because you need enough chips to force the other players who don’t fold to go all-in in order to beat them (and those players now have more chips).

Did I get this right? Because if I do, then this insane spiral of self-inflating risk really isn’t the flattering analogy that Musk fanboys probably think it is.

Also, do actual Poker tables even allow you to get back into a game that you lost when you come back with more chips? This seems implausible to me, because that would indeed be vulnerable to this “pay-to-win” strategy.

Time to open r/notlemmy

For sure. From what little I know about anatomy, ribs don’t connect to the shoulder, and there aren’t any ribs above the clavicle.

I applaud your fluency in young-people-speak.