Chic Aeon

I have as much as possible turned off and opt out of all the Microsoft wants me to do. Resistance if futile unfortunately. If they care I am watching 10 years of the newer Hawaii Five O and reading the PERN books I don't mind.

Mine is an Alienware that I got during COVID and the 3070 chip shortage. It was the most expensive computer I had ever purchased at something like 2300 USD maybe (over 2000 for sure when I am more in the 1700 range). It is doing very well still . I did find a sim that made it crash this week. I am pretty sure it was the very pretty but extremely heavy sim. That is the only issue I have had. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800 8-Core Processor (3393.62 MHz) Memory: 16310 MB (Used: 219 MB) Concurrency: 16 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19045.4355) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 Graphics Card Memory: 8192 MB Windows Graphics Driver Version: 31.0.15.3619 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.19 PS if you have the option of getting Win11 pro I think you will have fewer issues then Win11 home == at least that seems to be what is happening for friends compared to mine (I had no choice LOL) This on my notebook. If you haven't had Win11 Glary Utilities is DEFINITELY YOUR FRIEND. I hope my desktop lasts me a very long time.

Getting money out easier isn't going to entice creators to Opensim. There is still the "godmode" issue. Kitely does a very good job WITHIN Kitely but even on that Marketplace if you choose to export there is a fair chance that your items will be passes around (much like full perm in SL). I was on a couple of grids that had ways to process credit from within the grid and they worked fine. Kitely transfers out profits automatically to Paypal each week if you have had enough sales. In the best of all possible worlds if there WAS an issue in SL a bunch of good creators could move over to Kitely where there is almost (or no) overhead and we could have a very similar grid to play on. But I can't see that happening because getting enough creators over there to attract folks that want to have vast low cost regions is really difficult. For a time in 2013 and 2014 Opensim was really "hot" and there was a lot going on and sales were good. But I still don't see that exodus again unless something really major happens. There needs to be more shoppers to entice creators and more good creators to entice shoppers LOL.

True and I will keep my fingers crossed BUT it was made very clear when Openheimer bought LL that he WANTED Tilia and SL was a secondary acquisition that came along for the ride. So it could also go in the opposite direction. There has been time for Openheimer to "embrace" SL more of course and hoping that is the case. Meanwhile on other comments since I looked last -- I mostly know H and G creators, not clothing or mesh bodies etc but many of the furniture and house makers are downsizing in both land and events and I am in there with them. So even before this latest change there WERE movements going on at least in some arenas.

No. Anyone buying linden dollars needs to also --or selling without processing credit. Those that process credit need to prove who they are which includes driver's license or passport and proof of residence. Anyone who has had anything to do with linden dollars other than earning them inworld by working for example has agreed. At one point (not sure about now) there was the tiniest text on the page that said something like "by continuing with this transaction you are agreeing with the Tilia TOS and privacy policy" (PP only for US folks). So a ton of folks that don't care, pay attention or don't read LOL have agreed and don't even know it. OH WELL. I actually read the TOS and privacy policies (again) before agreeing. It took me an hour and a half :D.

It seems likely (no info on this at all) that the folks that are buying Tilia are buying the DATABASE with customers and client information. So (to me) it seems like they will already have anyone's info --- especially those that processed credit out to Paypal. When I agreed to the Tilia TOS at the very end of last year (after they had changed their TOS to the better) I didn't have to redo any info. It just went right through once it recognized me. I had been "cashing out" monthly before Tilia was divided from SL. So my fingers are crossed that I don't regret that move.

Yes. the primary reason I gave up my Premium membership when it ran out a year after Belli opened. AND It is very likely that anyone using the new company may have to agree again as the TOS will likely change. All that being said (and glad I have all my money in my brick and mortar bank now) there WAS a time when LL was thinking about letting folks pay for premium with linden dollars. This from Patch on the forums and I was still at LEA7 MOSP so many years ago. I couldn't see any advantage for them with that and it never happened. There could be a chance that they look at that again.

See my post above. You are still going through Tilia (or the new company). You were in Sansar also.

Well you had to agree with the Tilia TOS in order to become premium .Just checked and that is still in effect.

I am not seeing how that could work since you have to change your linden dollars into USD to pay your premium charge. At least that is how it used to work. Maybe I am missing something.

It is most likely a seam in the UNWRAPPING of he mesh (not actually an issue with the mesh itself. Most textures sold on the marketplace are TILING and SEAMLESS meaning that if you put them on a cube and then change the repeats to be something different than1, the texture would still flow smoothly. MESH however has to be divided into areas for texturing and depending on what the designer did you will have issues. Reasonably in most cases you wouldn't have a seam in the front or the back of a garment (like a top) but have the seams on the shoulders and along each side --- JUST like you would do if you were making a pattern for a top two sew with RL fabric (I taught sewing for many years in one of previous lives). However, just like some garment in RL are made without much thought, mesh clothing templates can be the same. So most likely NOT the texture but the way the garment was "cut" into "pieces" during the mesh making process. So as said you will need to design around issue that show up. It probably won't take long to figure out who the better clothing template makers are.

You know. I was thinking about this thread and ---- Whatever methods and choices LL makes it will not solve the issue (no news there) because LL is not going to police things. Abuse reports are seldom followed through -- at least in my personal experience. Yes, it might very well be "favoritism" and yes some of the avatars reported may have RL jobs with LL or be buddies -- but whatever; it won't really solve anything. The only real solution would be to ban child avatars except for G rated areas and or make a G rated part of Belli. And THAT would only work if LL actually policed things which they have not for 20 years now. I am NOT advocating any of that but it seems like our virtual world is getting very divided. On one hand we have new 2048 textures (which really have been in limited use for some time but not via the LL or FS viewer) that makes things "more realistic" and on the other we have mobile with a more cartoony look where in theory you can find folks in SL via an ap and hook up from anywhere without a computer. It makes my head spin. I don't do "adult" anything (really). I don't CARE what other folks do. But the virtual world seems to be in a tailspin. I am not sure there are any great answers.

In my mind LL already knows that adult verification will not work. Been there and done that as most of the old-timers remember. They are trying to talk the talk and placate folks. IF as it has been said it becomes a LAW, then that's a different story. Obviously anyone over a certain LL age (I am 16 plus now) is NOT a child. I don't care if I can't go to adult sims however there are plenty of places in adult sims that are NOT adult in any manner or form, so any further rules may hurt those folks. My only worry is that in their appearance to "look good" The Lab may decide that EVERYONE needs to prove their age much like they decided EVERYONE needed to accept Tilia even though most folks wouldn't be using it. (We won that battle more or less by the way.). Hopefully they will see that would be a VERY bad plan --- but I do sometimes wonder at the decisions that are made. We are close to two months now since the Medium article and time clock is ticking. This will NOT go away unless we let it.

It is easier (faster) to download a small texture. There ARE however legitimate reasons for 2048 textures. We had them in Sansar long ago and for awhile there were even bigger textures (not my time there). If you put ALL the texutures for a small house on ONE 2048 texture plane the server only needs to make ONE trip instead of -- well it could be 20 depending on how people build. The real issue in my mind is that folks will just assume that a 2048 texture is BETTER and NEEDED when it is not. Not a whole lot different than the match head forum post LONG ago that was a 1024 texture (yes really). So I for one am happy that LL will be charging for the bigger textures as that might have people thinking if they really NEED that big texture.

I can remember going to a sim that hosted all the Money Tree listings (and there were lots) and seeing "mirrors" and they were damned impressive. They apparently took a screenshot of your avatar and superimposed it on in reverse on the mirror prim (it was only prims back then). No, there wasn't any movement but that had to bee like 17 years ago or so.