Ardy Lay
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36 minutes ago, animats said:
Interesting. That's very similar to the problem of a double region crossing. We know that if a second region crossing starts before the first has completed (a common case at region corners) a stuck state results. The problems may be related.
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.
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11 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
Bots or rather, avatars logged in using one of the bot systems, often appear as orange clouds or invisible. That ALL of them in the picture are invisible is an indication that this might be the case. People create them for whatever purpose but haven't moved them to some other place. I didn't say it was benefiting anyone nor does it matter. I'm just saying LL needs to address them piling up at the Welcome areas. I think it would be disconcerting to actual new users if they saw a bunch of orange clouds or name tags without avatars.
I could probably start a fight here by stating that new users should see white clouds instead of orange clouds.
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1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said:
If Bots are "unashamed" and/or "unabashed", why do they wear clothing? Huh? Huh?
To artificially inflate that clothing's ranking in other bots' snoopy databases.
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4 hours ago, animats said:
Worked fine, but it's boring. It's endless suburbia, after all.
If routine transportation is EXCITING, then you are doing it incorrectly. But this is Second Life, so, go for it!
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18 minutes ago, Marigold Devin said:
I can remember all of Ms OToole's vehicles piling up on a 4-lane end.
All driverless too - way ahead of their time.
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.
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3 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I thought of Dad joke about an archaeologist finding a bone for the wrong skeleton.
The punchline wasn't that humerus.
ETA: Explanation in text below..
Wow. That's old.
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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.
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8 hours ago, janetheslot said:
Is there a link to the report where current active users are shown?
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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?
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On 9/12/2023 at 8:29 PM, Trex Devin said:
I am not able to log in (to in world servers as well) without letting Halliburton Company through my firewall. Does anyone else have that issue? Maybe you're not aware of it. l find it very disconcerting that I have to do that. There are many companies that are picky backing when I sign in but Halliburton is the most dominant. Why? What's their connection to Second Life. Many questions.
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.
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To be fair, Linden Lab did not create this "problem."
1 hour ago, Silent Mistwalker said:AKA
Stop looking at meeeeee!!
2 hours ago, cirleen said:Your crosshairs irritate me.
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"The Second Life Mobile View is built on Unity." Time index 1:53
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1 hour ago, Persephone Emerald said:
Picture of a dog after the kid drew on eyebrows with a marker.
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.
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17 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
What's the story / joke? She left the shell on the egg? Put the whole egg on the sandwich without slicing it (similar to the cake)?
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.
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28 minutes ago, Marigold Devin said:
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.
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35 minutes ago, Katherine Heartsong said:
technologically rickety madhouse
Write that large over the entrance!
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5 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Rough night? 😉
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2 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:
the island
I am missing a shoe.
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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.
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1 minute ago, Persephone Emerald said:
We need to be careful. If we cross to many threads, we may open up a portal to an alternate universe. Then we could have Linden Lab and Linden Lab Prime, Second Life and Second Life Prime, Basic, Basic Plus, Economy, 1st Class, Bussines Class, Out of Business Class...
I hope you can see where this is going.
You forgot Second Life Behind A Firewall. That existed briefly. I think it was called Dakota, or something like that.
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1 hour ago, animats said:
Without that, you're stuck where we are now, in the uncanny valley, with a range of choices between "dead" and "plastic".
You forgot "wears too damn much makeup."
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3 minutes ago, Aishagain said:
What's running on "RC Red Bull", then? Better FPS perhaps?
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33 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
Wasn't trying to be insightful,.though. It's Linden Lab and not Labs.
Indeed. Not sure we could handle more than one of them. 😉
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Posted · Edited by 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.