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ELI5 RoaringSilence 1 year ago 100%
A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin - kbinMeta - Kilioa Kbin kilioa.org

> > > I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article.... > >

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ELI5 PropaGandalf 8 months ago 0%
ELI5: What is OpenStack? How to get started?

Well to be precise? - How does one install it? - What is the difference between a hypervisor/openstack/a container service (podman,docker)? - Should I go with Proxmox/Debian/some other distro? - I already installed [Flatcar Linux](https://www.flatcar.org/), is this also suitable?

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ELI5 Damaskox 9 months ago 100%
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? Could we survive, or are we bombarded to death by something, or something else?

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ELI5 Damaskox 9 months ago 100%
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

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ELI5 YashaB 10 months ago 100%
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? Thank you in advance.

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ELI5 Damaskox 10 months ago 100%
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. But what else? Will it release energy enough to blow Earth up? Will its mass create some kind of an apocalyptical event?

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ELI5 Damaskox 10 months ago 100%
Can light be changed into (solid) material?

I have a feeling that this would be sci-fi but here it goes!

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ELI5 CassowaryTom 11 months ago 100%
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.

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ELI5 mulcahey 11 months ago 100%
How do we have so many dinosaur bones?

As someone who believes whole-heartedly in evolution, there's something I've never fully understood: When animals die, their bones decompose. If they didn't, the woods would be absolutely full of deer skeletons, and our streets and rooftops would be covered in dead birds. This makes sense, right? **So then how do we have so many dinosaur skeletons?** Do dinosaur bones not decompose? Or, conversely, if the answer is "A very small number of dinosaur bones were preserved through unique circumstances" then how were we so lucky to find so many examples from that small number? Isn't that a hell of a needle in the haystack? And, not quite the same question, but related: Many ancient civilizations have myths about dragons, which are essentially dinosaurs (except for the fire thing). But we didn't discover dinosaur bones until the 1800s. So how is it that we *imagined* these creatures and then discovered they were real? Can someone explain this to me? Thank you.

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ELI5 Damaskox 11 months ago 100%
ELI5: How do we see entropy and it rising at Earth?

Land turning into desert/wasteland?

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ELI5 Damaskox 11 months ago 100%
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). What would happen if you pushed them out of this moving field of theirs, closer to the nucleus?

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ELI5 Wabbitsmiles 1 year ago 100%
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 please thank you

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ELI5 XiELEd 1 year ago 100%
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 them? Does the load on a server increase by the amount of information in it, the browsing of information, or both? Does upvoting and downvoting cause a load too? Does saving posts and comments to your profile also cause a server load?

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ELI5 Fizix 1 year ago 100%
ELI5 Why do companies put sucralose in products that already have sugar?

ELI5 Why do companies put sucralose in products that already have sugar? [\#ELI5](https://kbin.social/tag/ELI5)

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ELI5 kosmicpulse 1 year ago 100%
Jane Adams (@janeadams@vis.social) vis.social

Attached: 1 image THREAD: I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it. (1/10) [#InstagramMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/InstagramMigration) [#TwitterMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/TwitterMigration) [#Fediverse](https://kbin.social/tag/Fediverse) [#feditips](https://kbin.social/tag/feditips) [#RedditMigration](https://kbin.social/tag/RedditMigration) [#Migration](https://kbin.social/tag/Migration) [#Decentralization](https://kbin.social/tag/Decentralization) [#Instagram](https://kbin.social/tag/Instagram) [#Mastodon](https://kbin.social/tag/Mastodon)

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ELI5 EarlGrey07 1 year ago 0%
ELI5, what is the difference between a thread and a microblog on kbin?

ELI5, what is the difference between a thread and a microblog on kbin? [\#ELI5](https://kbin.social/tag/ELI5)

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ELI5 kosmicpulse 1 year ago 0%
How do I post something here, and that posts in my mastodon page?

How do I post something here, and that posts in my mastodon page? [\#ELI5](https://kbin.social/tag/ELI5)

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ELI5 BUSTANUTELLA 1 year ago 100%
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?

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ELI5 RoaringSilence 1 year ago 100%
Explain Like I’m Five - Lemmy https://lemmy.ml/c/explainlikeimfive

Layperson-friendly explanations

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