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  1. Ardy Lay
    PUPPIES! I mean, that's what happened when my dog stayed out all night unattended. I was a bit peeved at first but got over it.
  2. Ardy Lay
    If we had the proper shadows that you are lamenting the possibly temporary loss of then I would have the darkness I so desperately want as they are very much the same thing. I simply offer a use case for proper shadowing.
  3. Ardy Lay
    You may be able to retire this snark soon. "Improved VRAM Utilization In order to better facilitate the increased number of textures associated with GLTF PBR materials, improvements have been made to the viewer texture streaming and VRAM utilization. Textures should load more quickly and should downres less often, and Second Life should make full use of available VRAM." https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/7.0.0.581886.html
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    Replacing breadth with depth seems to be a current user interface redesign trend in most commercial environments I am exposed to except those where users are expected to be proficient and actually get work done in short times.
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    I'll have to wait for it and hope it works when it is available on my land. In the meantime I will stop trying to test and provide feedback.
  6. Ardy Lay
    That gets me darkness if I also kill haze and clouds, but it looks wrong because each object illuminated is illuminated as if there are no other objects in the universe. No reflected light effects lighting of other objects. Without that we are stuck in "looks stupid" land. Maybe I just need to learn how to use this. Surely I don't have to manually set up fake ambient fill lighting for every camera angle in every scene.
  7. Ardy Lay
    Ensure shadows are enabled. Make a box. Get inside. Close the box. WHERE IS THE DARKNESS?
  8. Ardy Lay
    There is no darkness in Second Life. No, I am not talking about your heart or soul.
  9. Ardy Lay
    The residual ambient light is back too. There is now a light on inside the refrigerator all the time, even when it is unplugged.
  10. Ardy Lay
    If you manually install a RELEASE CANDIDATE, which the PBR viewer now is, but your current viewer preferences are to not try release candidates, then the updater will likely download and install the current RELEASE.
  11. Ardy Lay
    I have seen weird. Weird is ... pretty damn common now. I was trying to login to a web site yesterday and kept getting dragged away to an error page. I decided to just clear all of the browser history and junk and stuff and all that, then, as if nothing was ever wrong, that web site would let me login. I don't use the browser as a password manager and I use either bookmarks or an external password manager to keep track of all the important URLs, so, nothing of value was lost, except time, confidence and trust.
  12. Ardy Lay
    I have no suggestions. I used Edge on Windows 10 and the blue bubble thing just worked. I did, however, have to login first.
  13. Ardy Lay
    Well, Live Chat and Boxy 5000 are not "down", but I lack the skill to extract anything useful from the bot and didn't page a person. I see there is a maintenance event scheduled for Phone and Live Chat Support tomorrow. Maybe the big old hippopotamus named Maintenance, once depicted among the equipment in a cartoon posted to the Second Life Forum many years ago is back and sat on something. We may never know for sure.
  14. Ardy Lay
    Died when sister sent a teleport offer while I was already teleporting into her region.
  15. Ardy Lay
    Darn!
  16. Ardy Lay
    I suggest keeping a functional flashlight in your inventory. I have seen some interesting art installations and games where one must use a flashlight.
  17. Ardy Lay
    "Should LL re-brand SL now that "metaverse" is a thing again?" No.
  18. Ardy Lay
    Yes, open a support ticket with Linden Lab.
  19. Ardy Lay
    I don't know if this sort of preview was always in Windows 11, but the function has been around in Windows for quite a while. I happen to have Windows 2000 on a VM here. Preview is under the file details on the left, currently previewing an HTML document. Several types of files can be previewed. Later releases can preview more types of files. I remember getting all excited when preview started working on the video format I use in the studio, then I had to turn preview off because the editing workstation computer was severely bogged down.
  20. Ardy Lay
    [3 weeks later...] If the logical OR applied to two bit values is close to storage and thus far from the client, then perhaps much of the pipe between storage and client would have to be changed in order to inform the client which of the stored bit values resulted in the delivered result. [Edited to mock the forum's psudo-necro narco.]
  21. Ardy Lay
    I was just in the local grocery store and noticed the Halloween candy on shelves at the entrance. That's not too weird. What is to weird is that Christmas candy was stacked up behind the Halloween candy in September! I want to know what happened to Thanksgiving candy! I miss the stupid looking turkeys made of leftover Halloween candy, caramel, fudge and pretzels!
  22. Ardy Lay
    Vampires do not exist. Anyone that says otherwise is some sort of mythological creature.
  23. Ardy Lay
    1. As long as I have. 2. As many as I want to. 3. Less than I should have. 4. Wouldn't you like to know? 5. Querying Second Life Residents as an academic research project. I think that conducting academic research in Second Life should in no way be detectable by Second Life Residents, so, in my opinion, you have failed already by contaminating the data.
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  25. Ardy Lay
    White is the original recipe, yes. Sometimes I like to mess with Firestorm users by wearing nothing but the particle system prototype for the incomplete avatar cloud because then I show up as a white cloud with an egg inside which confuses the hell out of some people.
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