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minus-square@LedgeDrop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoI understand and agree with your sentiment, but try explaining how ”developer mode" does not make you a developer to my Grandma. It’s the same b.s. optics that invented “sideloading” as some technically shady practice, when it has always been: just installing the stupid app.
minus-square@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months agoMaybe your grandma who doesn’t understand that, shouldn’t be installing unverified apps without someone like yours guidance? That’s not a hard concept if they’re going as far as installing something else not from a store.
minus-square@LedgeDrop@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoYou’d still need “developer mode” to install f-droid or epic games apk. People shouldn’t be scared or intimidated out of installing non-google store fronts. …but yes, Grandma should avoid random apks pulled from the internet.
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but try explaining how ”developer mode" does not make you a developer to my Grandma.
It’s the same b.s. optics that invented “sideloading” as some technically shady practice, when it has always been: just installing the stupid app.
Maybe your grandma who doesn’t understand that, shouldn’t be installing unverified apps without someone like yours guidance? That’s not a hard concept if they’re going as far as installing something else not from a store.
You’d still need “developer mode” to install f-droid or epic games apk.
People shouldn’t be scared or intimidated out of installing non-google store fronts.
…but yes, Grandma should avoid random apks pulled from the internet.