On: Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

[mathiaspoint]

Those are not really personal computers, they're fancy set top boxes and extensions of the television.

[ninkendo → mathiaspoint]

They have the same hardware in them as a personal computer, and essentially always have. (The original Nintendo had the same CPU as an Apple II.) The difference is only how they were marketed, and the artificial limitations on what software you could run.

[mathiaspoint → ninkendo]

Right. They're vices and not tools even though they might look like tools.