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I wonder if this also applies to the case of being offered a teleport to a destination region that I am already in the process of teleporting to because this always gets me "Darn!" and requires I close the viewer and try again. While I am stuck waiting for "Darn!" I can hear the sounds of my destination and am told I am there, but all the viewer shows me is the teleport blinder with a progress bar.

I could probably start a fight here by stating that new users should see white clouds instead of orange clouds.

To artificially inflate that clothing's ranking in other bots' snoopy databases.

If routine transportation is EXCITING, then you are doing it incorrectly. But this is Second Life, so, go for it!

Oh! Oh! A friend of mine made a trebuchet that picked those up in her parcel and tossed them back to a location they recognized. One day when I visited, I got to watch her use it on a stack of nine of those damned things.

Wow. That's old.

Some of the Linux "distributions" that I use are so "stable"* that they still do not support the ASPEED AST-2500 or AST-2600! *Where "stable" release means feature-frozen, like it used to mean before all the users came along and ASSUMED it means "doesn't crash all the time." Yes, I have been using Linux that long. Remember when Linus joked on the mailing list that he was going to rename the kernel to "Instaboot?" One of these days I would like to try an AMD card, but I think you folks have talked me out of it. The primary use for my personal computer is to run Linden Lab's Second Life Viewer. So, I have purchased an nVidia RTX 4080. Yes, that's way more than needed for SL. I also purchased an Intel i9-13900k, which is also way more than is needed for SL. I would not recommend spending so much money to run SL if asked. Fewer fast CPU cores would work as well, most of the time. I also bought 32 GB of DDR5-5600 memory. I am hoping that, with 16GB on the GPU's carrier card and 32GB on the CPU's main board, I will not have to deal with insufficient memory issues much. People will ask "What's FPS do you get?" I know that's one of the metrics we feel the most, with inter-frame jitter also probably in the top two, but, really, FPS alone is meaningless as a comparison metric because you don't know what I am looking at. "58 FPS in a full club" sounds nice, but, which? Where? When? No, no! Don't tell me! I would like for us to have a set of fixed benchmarks derived solely from Second Life Viewer rendering performance when rendering an unchanging set of scenes. Once upon a time there were some regions set aside for this but either they are gone or now people can go there and build like they are sandboxes. I'll close by saying I erred on the side of buying way more "power" than needed, put probably about the right amount of VRAM and DRAM for what's coming soon to Second Life. Maybe further iteration will prove otherwise.

Maybe: api.secondlife.com/datafeeds/secondlife.xml

I don't know if this is helpful at all in determining what is happening, but try searching for: play the game Is this what is called a clue?

Once upon a time, Halliburton sat on a huge hoard of IPv4 addresses. Those have since been redistributed. Your firewall probably still using very outdated "whois" records. ZoneAlarm, PeerBlock and some other "security products" are still doing this.

To be fair, Linden Lab did not create this "problem."

"The Second Life Mobile View is built on Unity." Time index 1:53

That's fun to do with the dogs running about the neighborhood, but just the friendly ones. I don't recommend face time with unfriendly dogs.

Fried egg sandwich was two eggs "sunny-side up" between two slices of toast, with bacon, mayonnaise and pepper. The only part she got wrong was the egg was expected to be "fried hard" and not still liquid yolk.

This reminds me of a story my father told me about a newlywed coworker and the result of his new wife preparing his traditional egg sandwich lunch for him.

Write that large over the entrance!

I am missing a shoe.

Nebraska, maybe. Code names get lost after products die. It would have been a self-contained Second Life Grid with all services needed to support it in one rack. The demo unit was pretty fast, since the services were all right there on the same LAN switch. However, it was expensive to buy and even more expensive to keep updated. I didn't end up buying it. But, the main grid and services are plenty good now, so we just use the Second Life Grid Agni.

You forgot Second Life Behind A Firewall. That existed briefly. I think it was called Dakota, or something like that.

You forgot "wears too damn much makeup."

Indeed. Not sure we could handle more than one of them. 😉

Apparently, the people that were banned from Second Life wanted it? I don't know. I don't know or care why they were banned, or if they truly were. I just know they were bragging that they were banned. That's enough for me to decide to avoid them. I am just glad Linden Lab is not beholden to the force of mob rule. Linden Lab probably pays attention to what the users say the users want but I am sure that user A saying user B wants something is not of value.