Bitrate vs Bandwidth: Watching and Live Streaming

{tocify} $title={Table of Contents} Quick idea: bitrate is how fast your video or audio sends data, bandwidth is how much your connection can carry. Think of a hose and water. The hose size is bandwidth, the water y…

Packet Loss vs High Ping: The Difference

When the internet feels slow or a game keeps stuttering, people often blame "packet loss" or "high ping". These two problems may look similar at first, but they are actually different things. {to…

How Browsers Protect You From Fingerprinting

TL;DR: Fingerprinting is when sites collect many small details about your device to recognize you. Browsers fight it in different ways, like making users look alike, adding noise, hiding details, or slowly replacing …

Why Making Big Games Costs So Much

TLDR Most of the money goes to: Salaries for hundreds or thousands of people over several years Office rent , equipment, software, servers, and other day-to-day costs Marketing , like ads, trailers, events, and i…

How Video Games Are Optimized to Run Better

TLDR Game optimization means using smart tricks to make games run faster and smoother. It includes stuff like only loading what the player sees, using memory efficiently, skipping unnecessary work, and testing differ…

How Open World Game Maps Are Made

TL;DR Open-world game maps usually start as flat land shaped into hills, rivers, and towns, sometimes with help from computer-generated rules. Artists and designers add trees, buildings, and small details, with imp…

What If You Don't Accept or Reject the Cookie Banner

TL;DR Essential cookies are allowed without asking you; tracking cookies should need your permission in some countries. Some sites follow the rules, some don’t, and banners can be unclear. Many mod…

How a Computer Starts: From Power Button to Desktop

TL;DR: Pressing the power button sends power to the computer’s components, runs a hardware check, prepares the system through UEFI or BIOS, then loads the operating system so the desktop or login screen appears. {t…

Why Smartphones Can’t Run PC Games Like the Steam Deck

TL;DR Smartphones are powerful but cannot run most PC games natively because they use a different processor type, have heat and battery limits, lack proper graphics drivers, and often do not have enough storage. Emul…

Why Is There a GPU Shortage? If Demand Is High, Why Not Make More?

TL;DR GPUs are still in short supply in 2025, but not as bad as during COVID. Only a few factories make them and GPU brands share production with many other industries. Building new factories is slow and costly. AI companie…

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