“Sideloading” is anti-property-rights loaded language.
The correct term for installing something by means other than the Google-approved method is “installing normally.”
It is the act of capitulating to Google’s control, due to the incorrect belief that you need its permission to use your own property how you want, that needs a new term. So far all I’ve been able to come up with is “cuckloading,” though I’m not happy with how sexism-adjacent it is and am open to suggestions.
Also, it locks alternative sources to the Play Store out. How convenient, right?
grapheneOS wont be affected by this so, atleast we dont loose all hope
Yeah, but those few million users are not global-market-relevant.
It’s still good.
GrapheneOS unaffected - > more enthusiasts switch to it - > more funding - > better UX - > more interest, more adoption from less tech savvy people, possible professional grapheneOS installation services (think a guy helping gam gam install windows for a bit of cash, to start)
And so begins the beautiful cycle of mainstream adoption of something great
Or at least that’s what I tell myself when the current tech world scares me at night
Are you mistaking GrapheneOS with LineageOS? GrapheneOS is for security enthusiasts, too inconvenient and limited to devices for me.
Edit: typo
No, I mean grapheneOS. From my findings you get pretty much everything that a normal android phone gets, except contactless payments because of the google and apple duopoly on that front.
You can set up multiple users / containers, separate out google bs from your own private life, etc, all pretty intuitively if I remember right.
I’ve only heard of LineageOS here and there. I’m fully unfamiliar with that one
You can technically use Curve. Though I immediately got flagged for extra verification and the support team said that the verification team is overloaded so not to hold my breath. Been waiting for over a month now.
That’s what you get for not being a corporate drone.
Yea I tried Curve too but couldn’t get past KYC… I was told to message support, did so, and got no response in like a month.
I asked for my data to be deleted, and waited another month for a response. Now it’s deleted supposedly.
Idk seems pretty unproffesional to me… They probably only support the largest EU countries ID’s…
