Comment by rollcat
3 months ago
You can't make people just stop using a word. The best course of action is to reclaim it. Look at us, we're posting on Hacker News. With a sideloaded browser.
3 months ago
You can't make people just stop using a word. The best course of action is to reclaim it. Look at us, we're posting on Hacker News. With a sideloaded browser.
They already did! The word was install. Or as GP noted, run. They're actually even now much more conventional and widely understood uses, and if anything it's Google attempting to swim against the stream and normalize sideload as language for software installation. Theirs is an object lesson, I think, in appropriately registering the objection and pushing us back to normal language.