explainlikeimfive

Developers still continue to shaft anyone that isn’t using an IBM PC compatible. But if the IBM PC was more closely related to the latest Nexus/Pixel device, then would the gaming experience on smartphones be any good?

Ultra-low-end business laptops from 2015 with a mobile Intel Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and integrated graphics still have a dramatically better gaming experience than the Pixel 7 Pro. Why?...

Exemple: How does Apple guarantee that the iOS source code will not be discovered by an adversary?...

PLEASE. I keep seeing it in memes. As I understand it the latest version of the xz package (present in rolling release distros like Arch and SUSE Tumbleweed) has “a backdoor”, but I have no earthly clue what can be done by malicious folks with access to that backdoor or if I should be afraid or how to check if my distro is...

AI tools are helpful and cool as long as you know their limitations. AI doesn’t exist. It’s machine learning and is as good as the data used in his training....

I figured out that there’s a clown who crashes his car into a tree because he is drunk, but I don’t get the last panel. Why are there suddenly so many bodies?

It’s weird how I’ll see a dream and really ponder over it right after waking only for it to be completely out of my memory shortly after.

Theres many platforms to choose on peertube, does making account on one platform still works on other peertube platform? ELI5 the peertube

It’s been a while since I was taught Chemistry, but I was reading something the other day and I couldn’t quite get my head around the concept....

I understand that the Romans were unable to conquer Scotland so they build Hadrian’s Wall (which explains the survival of older cultures there). But as far as I know they occupied Wales and Cornwall, so how is it that the Celtic culture (language etc.) survived in those places?

I want to build my own cloud with Raspberry Pi, but I don’t know which hardware to buy....

I’ve been trying to keep up with it but I just don’t understand how he profits from this scheme?

Also why is it sometimes called a federated ID? Does it have to be an email address or could any value work?

So almost every GDPR cookie consent banner out there has a section for "legitimate interest" cookies that they can leave on by default and you will inadvertently accept even if you choose "Reject all" unless you go to the detailed settings and disabled those too....

Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them “hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it”, or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?

We noticed this community was abandoned by its previous moderators, and so we’re here to help it thrive again!...

I keep seeing references to RICO in the Trump Georgia stuff. What is it and how is it relevant to that case?

I’m completely out of the loop.

I understand that in end to end encryption the message is encrypted and only the recipient has the key to Decrypt it. How is the key transmitted, and how can the key not get intercepted with the message?

I feel like whenever I see the ampersand on this website, it’s followed with “amp;”. I’ve noticed it other places on the internet also. Why does this happen? Is it some programming thing?...

For example, anyone could use Let’s Encrypt to get a trusted certificate, so what makes this trustworthy? Or why not trust everyone that signs their own certificates with a program like OpenSSL?

In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?