ELI5: What is OpenStack? How to get started?
Well to be precise?...
Existing back in time where the general temperature of space was 0 celsius?
If we copied/moved our planet and us as we are now back in time that far away, what would happen?...
How much would a person need to weigh so they would start sinking when they stand in grass?
Trying to measure my roleplaying (non-human) character's weight, lol
Tipping your landlord?
I’ve seen some posts about tipping landlords. I don’t understand, is that really a thing? And if yes, how is it justified?...
What are some good reasons a person might want to host their own Lemmy server?
Grab a teaspoon of neutron star core. Teleport it into Earth's atmosphere. What would happen?
I believe the density chances quickly to match Earth's pressure....
The atmosphere has stuff to do with gas. If the temperature was low enough though, would the gas fall down as liquid?
Would the atmosphere cease to exist?
Can light be changed into (solid) material?
I have a feeling that this would be sci-fi but here it goes!
What are we meant to be remembering on the fifth of November?
Are we celebrating the defeat of terrorists or are we remembering why Guy Fawkes and company wanted ro blow up Parliament in the first place? I’m American and, frankly, I’m confused by the whole thing.
How do we have so many dinosaur bones?
As someone who believes whole-heartedly in evolution, there’s something I’ve never fully understood:...
ELI5: How do we see entropy and it rising at Earth?
Land turning into desert/wasteland?
ELI5: What happens if you squeeze electrons too close to an atom?
I’ve understood that electrons move in a 3D field outside the nucleus and that they are quite far away from the nucleus itself (in relation to the atom scale)....
ELI5: Google DRM bad
Non-techy here, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Google DRM shenanigans, but don’t really understand it, and what’s ‘bad’ about it....
ELI5: What is a "Server Load"?
I’ve heard of this concept multiple times throughout my time on the internet, but I never understood what causes a “server load”. Now that I’m in one of the biggest instances on Lemmy, this is one of the significant issues that we face. So what is a “server load”, why does it slow down websites instead of stopping...
ELI5: How does an icemaker work??
So I've looked at like three different articles and videos about it, but I still don't get how a fridge/freezer-based icemaker works. I want this mystery out of my life. :(
ELI5: How does electricity actually transfer energy?
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Eli5 what is going on with Red Hat and RHEL?
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ELI5 - What is happening with reddit?
Why did so many subreddits go private?
What is fediverse and why is it so talked about in this site?
fediverse?
OC ELI5 - How does artificial intelligence understand what is right and what is wrong for humans?
For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?
ELI5 the Fediverse
I get it's like an aggregate of sites, but is it like it's own network kind of thing, where each site pulls from each other, or more like each site is a home, with windows to see into the other homes? and is it exclusive to just social media, or are there other uses for it?