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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there really a technology difference between Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 ?English
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    8 hours ago

    Insider, there’s been massive change along the way.

    Yea, fundamental paradigm hasn’t changed from a UI perspective, but that’s just to keep people from having to re-learn too much at once.

    Under the hood, the change from NT3.51 to 4 was noticeable from a stability standpoint, then from NT4 to Win2k was massive - true plug-n-play, dynamic event capability, performance and stability were significantly improved. XP was a small increase over that.

    I had to reboot NT4 every day, often multiple times if I changed hardware, like using a vendor dock even.

    Then Win7x64, another massive increase in performance and stability.

    Win8 can die in a fire, because it wasn’t any better than 7, with some dumb stuff in the UI and the beginning of MS really scewing up control panel.

    Win7 is the high water mark to me, though Win10 is virtually identical to server, it even runs exactly the same Hypervisor framework. The differences from 10/11 to server are mostly tuning, how updates are managed, and server lacks some user-focused services.

    I’ve run Server Core and Win10 (for Hyper-V) on the same hardware and the performance difference wasn’t visible. It would take running a large server and heavy VM workloads (eg databases, regular VM migrations, etc), to see the difference.

    I don’t see a major performance increase going to Win10 as a single-user machine, but virtualization is much faster than if I were running even Win10 with VMware workstation (naturally).

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•When, by whom and how was this horn made?English
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    16 hours ago

    I’ve never heard “tinhorn” used to refer to an actual object - what an interesting twist language makes through different eras and groups.

    The only definition I’ve known is the “inexperienced gambler”:

    tinhorn gambler

    A cheap, small-stakes gambler who boasts and dresses ostentatiously to seem more successful or skilled than they really are. An allusion to the dice game “chuck-a-luck,” which features a chute, called a “horn,” from which the dice are dispensed. More high-class leather horns were often substituted with makeshift tin ones, and thus cheaper, lower-stakes gamblers were known for their tin horns.He always wears the same three-piece suit and slicks his hair back like he’s the Great Gatsby when he comes in to play, but everyone knows he’s just a tinhorn gambler who taps out after losing a couple hundred bucks.

    https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/tinhorn

    Not to say you’re using the term incorrectly, at all, just a neat observation about how language drifts.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoLinux@lemmy.world•Jellyfin on UbuntuEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Let’s clarify some things:

    When you say “server running and connected to my TV”, do you mean the computer running jellyfin is physically connected to the TV by a video cable (HDMI, DIsplay Port, etc) or your server can see the TV on the network?

    And I can’t make heads or tails of this:

    The TV and the server recognize the file, but the library file is empty.

    To clarify, Jellyfin is a media streaming server, which Jellyfin clients can connect to and stream from, over the network.

    If you want an app on a computer to play media direct to a TV via a display cable, I’d use something like Kodi, which is designed for that use-case.

    “Smart” tv’s are notoriously bad at being supported by things like Jellyfin clients - it’s not the devs fault, but because the TVs are so inconsistent with what works.

    So if you’re trying to stream video from your Jellyfin server on your TV, you’ll need the appropriate Jellyfin client app on your TV. If your TV has an app store, look there first. If you’re on a Samsung there’s a version you can install manually to Tizen-based tv’s.

    https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-on-samsung-tv-tizen

    My experience with Ubuntu is it’s a serious performance dog, at least as bad as Windows, and the devs intentionally left out some components because their paradigm is… unique (eg left out all the remote access infrastructure because although it’s intended for mass deployment, no one will ever need remote access to support those systems).

    After 3 months of fighting their bass-ackward thinking, I dumped it for all the far more sensible distributions.

    Also, Jellyfin runs fine on Windows, though since it’s a server Linux is a better choice, especially virtualized or containerized.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoFunny@sh.itjust.works•ExpectationEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Proper winter tires in the worst of conditions are 99% what you need.

    Studs come in to play in rare situations.

    Source: grew up driving on ice all winter. Not “snow”, just ice. Eventually found Nokian Haakapaliita tires (Finnish), even the worst over-powered, open-diff, FWD car suddenly goes (and turns, and stops) in the worst conditions.

    I refuse to use any other tire for winter.