Ardy Lay

If you can keep the viewers from trying to use the same local data and log files you should be able to run multiples. For example, different third-party viewers might use completely different directory names for these files. I used to build a viewer myself just for this purpose. I modified the file paths so the viewer I built would not interfere with Second Life Viewer. I think that Cool VL Viewer does use its own directories instead to stomping on Second Life Viewer's directories. The viewer you are using MIGHT allow you to make filesystem path changes per-instance. I do not know.

I don't use that particular third-party viewer, but the method I use to keep multiple sessions from corrupting each other's files should work with any viewer. I create an operating system login for each additional session I want to run. As an example, Ardy and Leslie have Windows 11 accounts. Ardy is logged in to Windows 11 and running Second Life Viewer. Ardy launches Second Life Viewer as another user and selects Leslie's Windows 11 account and proceeds to login as Leslie. This is not a Second Life specific solution. It works for other software too. I don't use voice chat so cannot state that Leslie's Second Life Viewer will have access to voice chat.

I use an Xbox controller with Second Life Viewer running on an ASUS motherboard with integrated Bluetooth. The Xbox controller needed to be connected to the computer via USB-C cable to update the controller's firmware using the Xbox utility that's sort of part of Windows 11. Once that was accomplished then I could pair the computer and controller via Bluetooth. After pairing open the Second Life Viewer and log in. In the viewer's Preferences panel on the Move & View tab there is a button for Other Devices. Pull down the Joystick list box to select your controller. You will have to make a few adjustments before the controller will seem to be doing anything. Start with clearing the checkbox 3D Cursor. Also clear the checkbox Control Modes: Avatar and Build. Set the checkbox Flycam. To activate Flycam you press the A button on the controller. Now you will have to adjust the Axis Mapping to tie controller inputs to the axis used by the viewer, labeled X Scale, Y Scale, Z Scale, Pitch Scale, Yaw Scale and Roll Scale. Xbox Controller input activity is indicated by the Joystick Monitor on the far right. Move one Axis and watch the monitor so see what its Axis number is. Mine are 0 through 5. The input value scale is -128 to 128 but I find that Xbox controllers don't seem to have that wide of an input range. Mine has two 2-axes joysticks and a pair of triggers. Note the numbers in the mapping fields in the example below. -1 means not used. Unfortunately, my Xbox Controller seems to only provide 5 axes, as the two triggers are opposite directions on a single axis. I only use Second Life Viewer so cannot provide any information about other viewers, if they differ. You may need to increase the dead zone values if your camera drifts slowly. If it drifts very rapidly you either have a different kind of controller than I do, or you forgot to disable 3D Cursor. Example:

It is safe to promote what you like without saying anything at all about what you don't like. Comparisons need not be made. If a person feels that it is impossible to say something is good without also saying something else is bad, then they are imposing an artificial limit on themselves. This artificial limit is behavior learned from exposure to manipulative people and can be discarded with conscious effort. Failure to discard this negativity starts fights. Avoid superlative adjectives when shouting your praise because those explicitly compare what you are praising with all else. If this post makes you think "Yeah, duh!" then carry on, however, if this post makes you angry, then perhaps you are in the target audience, and you will now consider me your enemy.

Sports fans call a team WE when it is winning, and THEY when it is losing. I say, if one means to participate then show it by always being a "we", win or lose.

BRAVO! ENCORE! ENCORE! (In case my intent isn't clear: I thank you and encourage you to continue.)

Yup yup. Just like in atomic structures, double-bonds are "more".

They just wanted linking information and you provided it.

One of the biggest detractors I see is the confusion and frustration caused when the cursor indicates it is over an interactive object, they try it, and are either ignored or told-off by that object. I have been in Second Life for a long time, understand why this happens and am still very annoyed and frustrated by it. I wonder if there is a viewer change that can improve this aspect of exploring Second Life?

I have been watching some game streams on twitch.tv What I am seeing is that (some?) gamers expect the software to guide them to complete tasks to achieve goals and that it has to drag them along through a story no matter how easily they get lost. If they log in to Second Life expecting this... nothing happens.

Did it sound like a squirrel being shoved backwards down a downspout by the water from a torrential downpour?

Federated systems last forever.. Skype, IRC, USENET, Gopher... if they have a userbase and a benefactor.

I wonder if "10,000,000 sign ups in the first 8 hours" is just them cloning Instagram accounts to Threads. Maybe a post hanging on a thread is called a pel.

Wow. I started TWO "media on a prim" things and the number of dullahan processes increased to TWENTY ONE. Parcel music stream player doesn't seem to have a notable impact.

Second Life Release 7.0.0.580782 (64bit) on Windows 11. I am not in London City. I don't see Chrome tasks. Maybe they are Chromium and named dullahan? I have been logged in for several hours and see ten dullahan_host.exe, of which each is using between 3MB and 43MB and two slplugin.exe using 9.MB1 and 9.9MB. Second Life is using 2,720MB.

Linden Lab removed that feature from Second Life Viewer some time ago. I wrote a JIRA in protest because I used that feature so I would not have to purge my block list when it was my day to marshal the stooges. As a result of losing that feature, it's always my day to marshal the stooges, therefore, they tired of me and left Second Life.

Second Life Viewer should work fine on Windows 10 / 11 that has not been Activated. I tried it with Windows 11 when building this computer and it does work. All of the above are 64-bit versions. If you only have 63-bits then you may have deeper problems.

Oh, it's a short nap. The viewer recovers after a few seconds. I suppose that "unloading" is at least as hard as "loading", and, in the circumstance I describe, 30+ avatars are unloading all at the same time.

Yes. It happens to me at approximately the same time every Saturday Night.

Yeah! Now our bot can hit on their bot and stop annoying real people! We will have to give our bot a scripted object to carry to detect the other bots, I suppose. Hmm.

Careful. Those might be installed with LAG SCREWS. (Old tree joke.)

You understood nothing. My event listings were attracting griefers. I still send group notices. NOBODY has balls big enough to tell me to stop sending notices to my own groups. And yes, people told me they rarely look at the Second Life Event Calendar so they wouldn't miss those listings. The rest of your reply to my post is irrelevant to my post. We all are aware of your opinions and prejudices.

My guests asked me to STOP listing the events I host for them. I guess they got tired of all the interruptions while I was kicking, banning and filing abuse reports. Considering how excited some people get when I give them L$ I can see how that small fee could stop some people from posting legitimate event listings. A little L$ means more to some than it does to others.