ELI5: How is Amazon able to sell me books so much cheaper than brick and mortar book stores in my area
I like shopping in book stores. There’s something about wandering the aisles and waiting for a book to jump out at you that I can’t get shopping online. Unfortunately, whenever I compare the price of a book Amazon has every in-person store beat, often pricing their offerings 30%-50% lower (or around $10/book in my...
ELI5: What is DRM and how much its implementation in Google's Manifest V3 will affect the Internet?
What is the difference between Linux package managers?
I know every distro has its own package manager, some of them share the same package manager, you can even install other package managers....
How do computers make any color using red/green/blue, when paints make every clor using red/yellow/blue?o
Im always confused by RGB. I learned that if you want orange, you mix red and yellow. If you want green, you mix blue and yellow, if you want purple, you mix red and blue....
ELI5: How do oranges grow "pre-sliced"?
Inspired by this comic: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fbf267fc-575d-40bb-ad9d-3bcb15cd6a77.png
ELI5: Israel - Palestine Conflict
So I think I have a basic grip on this conflict, the modern times at least, it’s basically a back and fro attacks of Israel and Palestine military, about who the territory of Gaza Strip and West Bank....
Why filter blue light instead of not emitting it in the first place in a situation involving a computer display and a human observer with no other sources of blue light?
What is the natural science reason to wear blue light eyeglasses instead of just turning one’s computer display’s blue lights off or very low in spaces where there are no other sources of blue light than the screen the person is watching? Suppose that the person has perfect visual acuity without eyeglasses. Suppose also that...
Do extreme sports athletes have different brains?
How are they able to perform well under intense pressure? Literally life or death situations. I’m talking about hardcore parkour or crazy people climbing skyscrappers....
ELI5: How are unexploded cluster munitions not a solved problem?
I really don’t have a lot of background on cluster munitions; it only really came into my perception in response to the controversy over the US providing them to Ukraine. As I understand it, the controversy is because they often don’t all explode reliably, and unexploded munitions can then explode months or years later when...
ELI5: what is the difference between Fediverse/Lemmy and Reddit?
ELI5: How do i post on lemmy?
so how do i post something to different instance? yesterday i posted something to asklemmy which is in lemmy.world from my account which is signed up with lemmy.one but it ended up landing on !foss. it will be great if someone can explain how posting works here.
ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?
They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.
ELI5: How do you play Dungeons & Dragons?
I’ve heard a lot about this game, but I just don’t know how to play it. Can someone fill me in?
ELI5: How are touch screens and computers in modern cars able to withstand the elements like extreme heat or cold and still function
What is defederation?
I read a lot about Threads and defederation. And I only have a vague Idea what defederation is.
ELI5: Why are Lemmy users freaking out over threads?
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ELI5: Quantum entanglement
What is it, what are its consequences, how does it work, why is it there, why do we care about it?
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Why are big platforms shutting down third-party Apps? Should an average user be worried?
With the recent Reddit stuff and YouTube stuff, I realized I’ve been using numerous third party apps or services. The question I have is why the decision and how such decisions would really benefit the company. As an random user, should I be worried about it or even go back to the official Apps just in case the third-party...
What way did the Titan submersible implode?
How fast did the people in it die?...