Both are valid commands.

adb install is for individual apk files.

adb sideload is for compressed zip files to load images and system files that usually include apps.

But yes, I did conflate the two and forgot the command syntax.

Either way, I don’t fully understand the hate for the word “sideload”. I don’t find it has a negative implication, but I can see how some other people might.

Installing apps from Aurora, F-Droid, etc. are not “sideloading”, though, and that does bug me how people conflate the two like the Play Store is the only valid way of installing apps on your phone. If you’re installing them from within an environment on your phone, it shouldn’t be called that. Only when you’re loading apps from a PC via adb should it be called “sideloading”.

I mean… That command is “adb sideload”

Can’t. Too busy blocking side loading.

Why not stream it from Steam Link or via Game Pass?

Debian is love. Debian is life.

They stopped providing DeviceTree files for Pixel phones, so building Android 16 requires reverse engineering now. They only provided stuff for the generic system images, so building the Linux Kernel for third party ROMs is now much harder.

Just ADHD things

Agreed. I’ve saved so much money by RTFM. As a father of three kids, every dollar saved means a better life for my family.

Car broken? RTFM, bought an ODBII scanner, and fixed it.

Need air conditioning? RTFM and installed my own heat pumps in my house, saving $7000 in labor and markup.

House has an old 60 amp fuse panel? Paid an electrician for the service upgrade, read the NEC, wired and installed all branch circuits and sub panels myself. Passed inspection. Saved $7500.

When you take the time to learn something, you not only get the satisfaction of using your own hands to accomplish something, but you also get to save money.

This post made me buy and play the game through. I did my first playthrough in about 4 hours and… Wow … My brain is going to be contemplating the story for a while. Incredible. Just incredible.

Mint is my typical daily driver, too. Freaking love Mint.

That’s a good point.

And LGBTQ+ distros.

And socialist distros.

And…

It’s the thing non-rolling releases use to demarc major package update dumps.

Stick with something better known. Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Ubuntu…If you’re just getting into this for the first time, full time, a niche meme distro is not your best choice.

Linux Mint is best for stability, but will be a bit more “stale” for updates, since it’s based on Ubuntu LTS. It is an incredible distro and is my daily driver for mission critical desktops, like my work PC.

Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed will both be great non-Arch distros that have fairly recent, yet stable updates.

Arch is basically the king of rolling, bleeding edge, always on the latest and greatest, but since it’s bleeding edge…you might get cut on occasion.

Ubuntu is Ubuntu. I don’t like Ubuntu, but it is the defacto “newbie/first timer” distro for a reason. Debian-based, lots of guides, both LTS and non-LTS options, and has variants for practically every major desktop environment out there.

This is good. Hopefully it’ll be extremely slimmed down and allow for remaining X11 applications to keep functioning.

This is neat. I’m not sure how many people are still using these GPUS…but it’s still neat.

My opinion is Microsoft better watch the fuck out, because Linux is coming for their asses in gaming. If Linux can break even 10% of the gaming market, it’s going to get crazy momentum behind it.

Sonic Origins used the same engine and basically was like “people seem to like classic Sonic games. Let’s make Sonic Mania themed in Genesis era games”.

And yet…they STILL fucked it up. Not as badly as they usually do, mind you, but still.