If there is a functional difference, then why can’t you say what the difference is? You continue to refuse to do so BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE. All you’re doing is installing an app. The only thing that changes is where the app comes from and if your corporate overlords approve of it’s origin. So again, what fundamental difference does it make where the app comes from?

My brother in Christ, you’re literally the one splitting hairs…that’s the opposite of what I’m doing.

I’m saying they’re the same. You’re saying these two things that are functionally identical are fundamentally different. In what conceivable way am I splitting hairs?

The functional difference is that one means “installing from anywhere” and the other means “installing from outside the default app store”. They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.

If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference. If I say I need to see a doctor, there is a functional difference between a neurosurgeon and another medical professional. If I say I want to download a calculator app, there is no functional difference if I download it from a first-party app store or a third-party app store. You’re splitting hairs. Stop supporting corporate hegemony.

I didn’t say that’s what you said, I’m making a point that its the same fucking thing. Read the rest of my comment and answer my questions please. Or do you agree that there’s no functional difference and splitting hairs about where it came from is just a way to enforce corporate hegemony?

Installing an app is not the same thing as installing an app? What difference does it make where it came from? Why do you need two different words for installing an app? Why does the distinction of where it came from matter when the outcome is no different?

When 99% of installs come from one location, there needs to be a way to describe that other than “Installing apps from outside the default app store”.

Y tho. What difference does it make? Its the same thing.

That sentence means nothing to me. What?

You don’t need to buy it, but I ain’t lying. I am 100% a psychotic outlier tho. 😂 The way I see it, this is a computer that is almost always on me with tons of personal information inside. The chances of it being compromised is WAY higher than any other computer I own. I take that very seriously. Like I said tho, I’m a psychotic outlier.

There’s news reports all over the fucking place, here, mainstream media, social media. Wtf are you talking about? They’re all lies?

I use a 15 character pw with a mix of upper and lower case, numbers, and symbols, which according to that link is pretty damn good.

Then why are those countries also arresting pro-Palestinian protesters?