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iewx5b | Why do smartphones have multiple cameras instead of using their best camera sensor with multiple lenses? | Top of the line phones have a main camera sensor which is of far higher quality than the other cameras (Tele and wide and sometimes macro). Why not use the main sensor, but have different lenses rotate into place like an old Bolex or and some old two-focal length point and shoots? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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"moving parts makes it more prone to failure. and who's going to rotate the lens? the user or the software? users will forget and get annoyed and the software doing it will cause it to become slow, not to mention the more prone to failure part.",
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iey063 | If I watch the same video on 720p, 1080p and 4K, what's the easiest aspect to tell the difference between the video qualitiy? | I can notice anything below 720p and Frame rate is something I can pick on but not video quality. I've been trying on Multiple devices for ages and maybe I just don't know where to look at? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if0m2b | What's the difference between Textures, Shaders, Materials, Meshes and Sprites in Unity? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if0q9a | Can't I just vacuum my smartphone charging port? | My samsung charging port won't take chargers due to, what I assume is dirt buildup. I've tried using a tooth pick but that hasn't got it out. Instead of paying $60 to a phone repair company, couldn't I literally just use a vacuum on it? The only parts it could suck out would be the actual charger connector, but that's ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if0ro4 | Why isn't there a (start-up) company that makes older technology printers with cheaper ink? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if1e77 | why is Internet speed measured in bits per second rather than bytes per second? | Bytes seem like the logical option given everything else in personal computing is given in bytes (ram, storage, file size etc.) | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if1njr | - Why do our phones sometimes sort of twitch (buzz/flash for a millisecond), before a call actually comes in? What is happening in that moment? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if2l6d | Why are photos on my display always so bad at showing a smooth color gradient, when it comes to very dark - > black? | It's hard to explain, but I've realised that when there's a source of light surrounded by darkness on a picture, the shift from very bright to very dark is quite smooth, while on the outer shift the border to the blackness consists of rough lines and seems kind of pixelated, and the color difference to the lighter tone... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if3m1w | What does “Turing-Complete” mean in computer science? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if5nha | Why airplanes loud and clear when we are thousands of feet away on the ground, but can't hear them when we are 30 feet away inside the plane? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if5veo | If you support a company, does clicking their ads show support or does it charge them money? Same question for skipping them on youtube. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if91b4 | why IP addresses all look the same | I have been trying to learn how to add wifi functionality to my arduino project, and one of the steps involved was to find out the IP address of the wifi module. It was something along the lines of 192.168.0.1, but every IP address I've seen has those same numbers. If there are so many wifi devices everywhere, why do t... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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if9pol | Why can we upscale video to 4k and even beyond (Nvidia Shield) but cant upscale audio from low bitrate files? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifb0vb | Why renewable energy isn’t dominating the market yet? Wouldn’t a combination of solar/wind/hydro/tidal/geothermal energy suffice at least a big chunk of a country’s consumption? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifgqga | Why do old videos looks so blurry even when we remember them being clear. Is there a way to play them clearly? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifjvwk | How can phones with powerful specs run 24/7 without overheating, while computers need giant fans to cool down? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifnwcj | We are living in 2020, but movies and TV shows are still not being shot at 60FPS, why? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifo4m3 | why is it that whenever I need to find something online, there is always a forum from 2001? | Do such forums still exist? Will people in 2040 trying to figure out why their computer screen is flickering find old forums from 2020? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifwh19 | If silencers don't supress gunshots as peeps like in the movies. Then why are they used for at all? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifwx2q | Microsoft Monopoly | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ifzrb0 | Console games were developed on PC, but why is it difficult to port them to PC without low rate of bugs? | GTA 4 and Dark Souls 1 are prime examples of this question i’m asking. They are considered by gaming community as one of the worst PC ports ever due to low frame-rate, new bugs and not much setting options to configure | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ig1ysz | What exactly does an "EMP" do?, and how long does it last? | Electro magnetic pulse, I assume it shorts everything out. Does it damage electronics so they will never work again? Thanks! | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ig7h91 | Why are CPU coolers for servers so small? | The consumers side of things are throwing massive monstrosity like the [Noctua D15]( URL_1 ), [Cryorig R1 Ultimate]( URL_2 ), and the enterprise side has these [cute little aluminum blocks]( URL_0 ). And server CPU usually have way bigger TDP than consumer CPU right? Then why are they having smaller heatsink for hotter... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ig9253 | The difference between Rasterization, Ray casting, Ray tracing and Path tracing | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ig9pkf | What exactly does incognito browser do? | How incognito does it really make us? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ig9te8 | - Why is Linux NOT considered an OS? What the hell is GNU? Among other things | I'm still tryna wrap my head around the concept of Linux, as I just transitioned to it on one of my computers. A lot of people say Linux is an OS like Windows and Mac, but then others refute and say stuff like "no it's a kernel" and then GNU gets mentioned and I'm automatically lost. So if Linux isn't an OS, does that ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igcnhc | What happens if you turn off your gaming pc without shutting down properly? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igdwwo | how laser eye surgery works. | How does slicing someone's eyeball with a laser fix someone's vision? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igfma4 | how servers in video games work, and what exactly is a server? | When the devs of a game say something like “we’re working on our server issues” what are they exactly working on? And what causes some issues like lag or “lack” of servers for players? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igi88b | Why does the WiFi seem to rarely go down at work, but go down at home all the time? | There are many many more devices connected at work than at home. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igjhia | What is the difference between POP3 SMTP and IMAP? | I've been having issues with my phone lately, as I am not able to connect my mail account. After googling the issue, it says to try switching servers between the three. What is the difference and what should I use for my mobile phone? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iglf3j | How does HTML5 differ from Flash? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ign8wd | Why special characters like "ò" or "é" aren't allowed in passwords? Doesn't increasing the number of possible combinations make a password more secure? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igo75p | ; Why do electronics in general start messing up over time? | if there are no moving parts in electronics and computers can only do what they’re coded to do an nothing more than what makes them slow and buggy over time? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igs5kl | Why do CPUs get so hot, and what is preventing people to make CPUs run cooler? Will there ever be a groundbreaking advancement to allow classical CPUs to run at low temps without fans? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igva6z | What is volt and Watt??? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igvaex | Why was crysis so hard to run? | Im sure we all know of the joke thats been going on for ages, can it run crysis? Was crysis really that hard to run? Was it badly optimized? I have never understood. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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igz2ym | How do computers work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ih2zlb | Where do deleted files go? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ih35sl | How do news websites have scrolling into a new article, with seemingly no refresh between the two? | I was reading about the new [Mafia: Definitive Edition]( URL_0 ) preview build on Forbes (not a preference, just the first link I saw) and as I finished reading about the article, I noticed it went straight into a new one when I scrolled down. The more you scroll, the more articles appear and you can just zoom through ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ih39gc | Why does the effectiveness of rechargeable batteries that are in phones or laptops for example, deteriorate over time and seem to not be able to hold a charge for the same time? | So for example, if a brand new phone has 12 hours on screen battery life, but a year or so later could barely manage 8 or 9 hours, what causes this? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ih44a8 | How does your phone know when it needs to rotate to the side? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ih9xvt | What is the difference between a wifi router and a modem? What is LAN and WLAN? What are packets? What is ethernet? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihc0t1 | In the USA, why do emergency broadcast warnings sound like absolute garbage? It’s usually a robotic sounding voice that sounds like they are reporting from the middle of a static storm. Why is there so much extra noise in these recordings? | I’m referring to the actual message, not the warning tones at the beginning. :) | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihepnr | Website Tracking | Using an apple computer, with cross site traffic blocking and cookie blocking, and using duck duck go as a browser, how do websites still know so much information about you? Not only how many times you have been to their site, but also your zip code? How can you be more anonymous? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihgas4 | How do they grab old film and turn it into a high quality frame rate? | As the text implies, It baffles me how much quality theyre able to add to old films. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihh665 | Why is it so hard to put the phone down? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihhpzn | Why does an external hard drive have varying space depending on the device it's used with? | ELI5: Today I cleared an external hard drive to use it as extra storage on my PS4. While setting everything up I noticed that on my windows laptop it showed about 900 GB of available space (while being completely empty). On the Playstation it now shows I have about 1,4 TB of available space. How is such a big discrepan... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihohpj | why is there a lag during communication between on-site news reporters and off-site reporters despite of all the technological advancements? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihrh1c | Why do non-backlit screens (such as most Gameboy screens) need bright surroundings in order to be seen, while backlit screens (such as your phone) need more "backlight" if it is in the same conditions? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihs9wj | Why are movies always in 24fps? | I'm so curious as to why they are always in 24fps. Games under 60fps tend to get choppy, but movies tend to look fine at 24fps. How? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihu35t | What’s the difference between a fast shutter speed on a photography camera and just recording the event on a video camera? | Like why don’t sports photographers just use video cameras and pause at the best spot, instead of take multiple still shots? Isn’t video footage made up of many many still shots anyway? This way they can’t stop too early or start too late. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ihv1jz | how does Netflix censor a video while screen recording by making it black only in the recording as you continue watching the video? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii0lpc | How come the xray machines officers use in airports don't harm the workers? (Like how doctors stand in another room for their protection) | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii3leh | How do chess engines calculate moves? | How do they figure out which move is winning and how can they make mistakes if they calculate everything? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii3xa9 | How does a Turing machine work? | Bonus points for using the least amount of words possible. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii62bg | How are lines on roads painted so consistently and accurately? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii7ng3 | If it's true that you can't "truly" erase anything on the internet, then how does one go about obtaining all that information back that was deleted? Where does it all get saved? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii8ps7 | Why do chair massagers and other related equipment say to only use them for 15 minutes or less? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii9m74 | Led Vs Lcd vs Oled vs Amoled | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ii9qm8 | Why do many audiophiles store lossless music even though it's supposedly the same as 320kbps MP3 to the human ear? | EDIT: What I've gathered from the comments so far is that the higher frequencies getting cut off doesn't matter but the lower audible frequencies also get distorted on MP3. Supposedly, that's where the extra quality in lossless lies. Also it matters when you EQ audio. Is that all? YMMV, but I cannot hear the difference... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iibrcg | How do animators make cartoons that can go up to 30 frames per second in the limited time they are allowed? | There must be some trick to it. I couldnt believe that animators actually slave there for days on end drawing each and every frame with body parts and mouths moved ever so slightly different. That they can do that thirty times for every second for a thirty minute to hours long video. It just seems impossible!! | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iichfc | How does bionic hand work? If they don’t have any fingers on hand, how they control the hand? like grip and move and all. I just saw a video with little girl that uses bionic hand for firs time and i wonder how it works. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iig4i1 | -How do big games get coded | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iiiy5n | why haven't auto makers developed a warning system for infants left in hot cars? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iiku36 | how do reviews get the phones and other electronics and some tear it apart , do they really buy? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iip07n | Why are there no USB-C hubs with lots of USB-C ports for USB-C devices, in the style of old school USB hubs? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iist3a | How exactly does data compression work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iit3j7 | if Whatsapp don't run ads and don't require a subscription. How do they generate money? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iitjis | Why can’t a camera sensor have variable sensitivity across for a given image? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iiu3vf | Why are magazines in some weapons behind the trigger? | Now, I don't have any experience with weapons in real life or anything like that. Though, I have noticed that some weapons like the AUG have their magazines behind the trigger and other weapons like the M16 have their magazines in front of the trigger. To me (keep in mind, I don't have experience with weapons), the AUG... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iiwsh1 | Why is it so easy to teach a bot to write entire articles that pass the Turing test, but even the best bots become obvious in just a few chat messages? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iix4ty | What are WASAPI, ASIO, and Direct Sound ? | I'm exploring sound virtualization on Windows 10 and have noticed that a lot of the user guides for different programs mention "WASAPI" , "ASIO", "Direct Sound", "pins", "KS", etc. What do these all mean? Are they options that I can enable for better audio playback? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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iizs8m | How can millions of people use the ~400 underwater cables for internet simultaneously? | I'm aware each cable is branched into many many smaller cables but surely there still can't be one cable per person so how is the issue of overlapping data signals solved? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ij1vy9 | What goes the gigahertz (ghz) actually mean in terms of a computer processor, and how does that translate to actual performance? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ij47ic | - Why have blimps not made a comeback, especially in the way of public transportation? | I was reading up on blimps and they seem to have a ton of untapped potential. They are actually super safe, could be built for a reasonable price, and can carry a large number of people. So, why haven't they made a comeback? On a city public transport level, they could make a massive impact on traffic reduction etc. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ij6ooc | what is posix in Linux? Read multiple articles, not understanding. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ij80d7 | Why do we need to buy new phones for increased mobile internet speeds like for 4/5G. | Our phones are powerful enough for advanced 3D graphics and WiFi has existed for awhile that is capable of vastly superior speeds yet our phones can't receive data faster without buying a new one? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijagjr | How are bitcoins created? | I know it takes mathematical knowledge, but i dont exaclty know how they work and how exactly a equation can be some type of currency, im five help | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijap6v | How did someone figure out a bunch of 0s and 1s (binary code) could be used to make the computers and phones we all use today? | I understand that you write code to run a program but how did someone figure all that out in the first place? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijayuy | what is Cloudflare? Why is it so integral to games, and why do so many sites/services use it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijc779 | What happens when you don't unplug the charger from a device after it reached a 100%? Can it overcharge? Will something bad happen? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijejap | Why are there still "business days" for online transactions when just about everything is done automatically by programs? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijg05n | Why do most BIOS look so dated compared to your actual OS? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijg8je | How do one-way mirrors work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijgvxc | Why does internet explorer have such a bad reputation with tech-savvy people? Average users seem to have no problem with it. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijmamn | Why do games running on emulators still have the same performance issues as they had on their original console? | Today I decided to get a NES emulator on my laptop, which already is an old machine. I decided to play Mega Man, a game I actually own, and I could not help but notice that this game, launched in *1987* for the *Nintendo Entertainment System*, has the same visual glitches and performance issues you would expect from pl... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijnpba | How does smoke damage electronics? Can you clean it? | My house was damaged in a fire, and I was told by the team that's overseeing the repairs that any electronics in the house will likely be documented by an insurance claims adjuster and added due to "smoke damage". If I'm understanding it correctly, I'll be permitted to keep everything regardless of the fact that it was... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijphrn | How can I tell if a post on social media is from an real individual person or a spam account that is planning on manipulating me? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijqdud | why does your phone battery die so much faster when using the camera vs normal apps (texting, email, etc)? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijrjj1 | How does WhatsApp as a company make money even though there are no ads on whatsapp? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijtm84 | What does refreshing a web-page do exactly? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijvcxd | What is a WEP key? | is a wep key the same as my wifi password? the reason i’m asking is because i’m trying to play my 3DS. thanks in advance. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ijvg8h | What do spoilers (on cars) actually do, and how? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ik119p | Why do analog thermometres take 5 minutes to measure, while a digital one can do it in seconds? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ik26b6 | How do we record (and play sound)? I don’t know what is done to allow us to record and re-play audio | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ik3mtc | Why do updates go from something like 9.04.32 to 10.58.7? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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ik4dak | what makes RAM faster if there are no moving parts? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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