Anaiya Ahren

I've got to agree with your price reduction assessment. If it doesn't address the odd leap in price for extra mainland tier in a way that makes it make sense to not have extra groups and sandbox access on two premium accounts rather than just enhancing one account with "plus", it won't be broadly adopted.

I just wish they'd get on with it.

I'm waiting. I'm either going to make this account premium or make my premium account "plus" but I don't know which until they release the details about plus. Apparently they'll get around to it during their birthday thing, allegedly. I won't give up my original 512 parcel and it seems silly to buy another little 512 while I wait for plus to be released so.....I'm waiting.

Well, you could spend 88 US a month on smoking, that'd give you an excuse to feel guilty. It honestly sounds like your budget is well under control to the point of virtue. You're meeting your obligations, you've got savings for an emergency - you have earned guilt-free enjoyment when you've not just sustained yourself and paid your bills but also have a solid little buffer in the bank (nice work!). I think you must be looking to feel guilty as you say because your "money-behavior" is virtuous, you're not just doing nothing wrong, you're doing everything right. You don't deserve feelings of guilt over that, actually you deserve to feel proud and to feel empowered by your sensible management of money that affords you an entertainment/self care budget after your bills are paid, especially with that 10k "rainy day" safety net you've built yourself. I don't blame people whose income is too small to meet their reasonable needs (including the human need for fun, leisure and self care), but the reality is some people just can't live within the most generous budget, so good money management is a virtue to be admired and you're entitled to feel proud of your efforts on this count. I hope this depressive period passes soon because you don't deserve to feel guilty or stupid, you actually deserve to feel empowered and to enjoy some pride in your good money-management.

Can we please not continue this disingenuous game of pretending "offense" is the big risk here. Offense might be a good motivator to someone who wants to maximize use of their site by not putting off too many people with distasteful content but my concerns are about the safety of our communities, about radicalization, dehumanization, fear mongering, hate mongering and dangerous misinformation and disinformation. Whether or not I'm offended by "replacement theory" conspiracies has no impact on how likely someone else is to believe and act on the notion; I can't bring dead people back to life by not being offended. Private property is not analogous to public property where speech is concerned, and non government operators are not analogous to the government where speech is concerned. The inability to operate some services and the significant barrier to operating others is the rationale for the 230 protections, any liability offline that doesn't make whole services impossible and provide a significant barrier to others is not analogous when discussing why those protections exist. The ordinary operation of a bar doesn't involve patrons having free for all access to the tvs - it's no impediment to a bar's ordinary business to not allow that. User submitted content on many internet platform services is more akin to patron chatter than whatever is playing on the bar's tvs. Operator liability for user-submissions is more more like making the bar responsible for whether their patrons recite, sing or hum a copyright work than it is like making a venue operator liable for what is played on their TVs.

No, not a public square but a privately owned venue. The movie theater can kick you out for disruptive speech but they're not liable for everything you say while you're there. If you want to operate a venue to discuss birds, you can't do that if you're overwhelmed by loud shouters who insist on talking exclusively about trains. If you want to operate a venue where Granny No-Swear feels comfortable participating, you can't do that if loud shouters can scream non stop expletives. It was equally deemed impractical to expect policing of every use-net comment (for example) and we wouldn't have the internet we do have (for better or worse) if user-submitted comments were treated as the publication of the site owner. That was the thinking behind the law - that it's reasonable and necessary to impose standards on most private venues to provide an environment conducive to their purpose but that legal culpability for user-submitted content would create a significant barrier to development and use of internet services and technology.

I'm proficient with analogy. It relies on materially relevant "likeness". Handing my private information to some private corporation who may do whatever they please with it is materially different to dealing with a government who would already know who I am and already hold the information they'd check to background check me - I wouldn't even be giving them information except that I'm about to (probably) own a gun. This is not like (analogous to) handing my ID over to commercial "personal information" traders for their unconstrained and unregulated exploitation. None of the concerns I have with one of those things apply to the other. The two things are unalike in their materially relevant qualities. There are certainly legal protections around how my government may use my information - they're not allowed to sell it for example. I'd expect the same kinds of restrictions to apply to background checks on gun ownership involving the US government. I wouldn't want your government monetizing and selling information about who's buying guns, I would be opposed to that in fact. In my country you have to be licensed to possess a gun with a lot of personal information gathered in the process. I'm not bothered by that process; I know exactly what purposes that information may and may not be used for, who has access, and that it goes no further. It's not being sold to whoever will buy it. Providing information whose use is strictly limited under law, to my own government who may use it for one specific purpose only is obviously not like (not analogous to) providing ID to commercial "personal information" traders to do whatever they please with in all the ways that matter.

That's a big fat "nope" for me. I'm deeply disturbed with how much information is being sucked up and traded on through peoples' internet use. They don't need my ID or anyone's. Internet information trackers and traders already know far too much. Public "anonymity" isn't actually very helpful if I've given my ID to the very companies whose monetization models rely on selling information about their users to whoever will pay.

How do you imagine that's a practical solution for social media? How many instances of publication do you think are taking place on Facebook per minute on average? How many hours per day do you think Hobby fan101 has to devote to policing their hobby forum or the comment section of their blog?

One of mine (well she'd say I'm hers actually) plus bonus "sibling is furniture":

Oh. Ok, now I'm wondering if I should change all my listings. I do use the "See product details..." box but I've listed anything with a no mod script as "copy" plus "See product details..." Hmmmm.

Of course but that doesn't make it honest to list an item with no mod scripts as "mod" in the marketplace permissions check box (which I assume is what determines whether an item shows up when we do a search with "mod" specified)? I think....? If sellers are honest and don't list items with no mod elements (like the script elements) as "mod" using the checkbox, won't those items be excluded from searches that specify "mod"? I'm not suggesting prim or mesh mods be locked down - I'm wondering how my mod-perm prims and mesh will be found if they've got a texture change no mod-script in them because it feels dishonest for me to list only partially modifiable items as "mod"? How would mod-perm preferring customers find texture change items without being (even more) inundated with no mod items? Am I doing my listings wrong maybe? I just don't feel honest checking the "modify" box when I list an item if it has any no mod elements (like texture change scripts). I'd like people who want the prims and mesh as modify permission to find my stuff if it meets the rest of their search parameter, but I can't see how I can honestly list them so they're not excluded from searches filtered for the "modify" check box when they've got "no-mod" scripts in them. Perhaps I'm doing that wrong?

I think that a lot of creators draw the line at giving away the UUIDs for their textures and I don't think it would be honest to list something as "mod" if it has "no-mod" elements. Do you just not buy anything with a texture HUD? Surely people aren't selling texture change HUDs with the UUIDs visible to the end buyer?

I just wish they'd get on with it. I have the budget to premium another account but I'm holding off in case I prefer to plus my current premium account but at the same time I got my eye on the Maniology clearance section and my nail stamping addiction is.......intensifying. Better make a move if you want this money LL, I'm one uncontrolled impulse away from sending it to Hawaii.

Microsoft locked me out of my computer because it "forgot" my password. I had to get a confirmation email sent to an email account to log back into my own computer which is silly because how am I supposed to get to my emails if I'm locked out of my computer. I do not like Widows 11.

I had to google how to change my group tag, how to apply a sculpty map and.....how to rezz a prim. I was so laughing so hard at myself over that last one. Oh and I've also managed to accidentally wear a box on my head. It's like old times became new again except now with bonus BOM. The weirdest thing is I have this vague residue of body memory that makes me feel viscerally that I know where to click to make things happen....only I don't and eventually have to resort to google to find out how do the most basic of things. I hope you find the perfect avatar to feel at home in SL again.

Me too!

Sure, but this poster was asking about the purpose. Can we deduce purpose from meaning? We know 42 is "40 + 2" and "7 X 6" and according to the transitive properties of multiplication, it is therefore also "6 x 7", and that this is barely scratching the surface of what is known of 42, because it's also"53 - 1" and "(5 X 10) - 8" and, well, it's a lot of different things that are the same thing. Still, for all we know of 42 we must consider that knowing is not always understanding. Perhaps comprehension is the purpose - are we here to understand the meaning of life, to truly comprehend 42, is that our purpose? If that is the case, it would make a lot sense because it turns out, I'm terrible with numbers.

Do check mesh rigged for classic avatars too. I'm not willing to give up my favourite corset that was made before fitted mesh existed and I don't have to because it fits Slink physique. Slink physique is extraordinarily tolerant when it comes to "fit" in my experience, so do try even unfitted mesh made for the classic avatar if you've held onto any pre mesh-body treasures you thought you wouldn't use again.

Does Maitreya not have BOM option for a custom alpha layer?

Have you done a nail polish theme? You know, doing the nail polish-bottle holding pose, the "spooky pose" (if that's possible in Secondlife), poses with the brush held in one hand on the other hand's nail (so it looks like the model is mid way through painting a nail), holding the brush in one hand and holding the other hand out in front with the fingers straight/spread wide and looking at that hand (like someone checking their "handi-work"), and poses holding the nails up as if to show to someone else, that kind of thing.

I don't know what people have got against Acer,. My old Acer was fine for SL for over 7 years of use and is still functional for most tasks internally (externally, a rodent pulled many of the keys off the keyboard but I probably can't blame Acer for that). I bought it in early 2009, so it's still functional after 13 years and several chinchilla attacks...plus I've dropped and knocked it to the ground countless times and have been a rough and neglectful owner. I can't complain, it's been a great computer and taken a lot of abuse. I commonly let it run a week without even shutting it down, it hasn't been cleaned in like 8 years, it's probably got more fur inside than my cats have on their bodies. I used to have a cooling pad for it, but that stopped working years ago, so now I just use a block of cheese on the keyboard to cool it down if it runs too hot. I got a new one a couple of weeks ago (it's a Predator Helios 300) and haven't visited anywhere taxing in Secondlife yet so I can't say how well it really handles Secondlife under strain. I toured around a chunk of Zindra the other day though and was happy with everything. Everything rezzed nicely, I had smooth movement and a nice frame rate, and wow, people have done a great job making the place look tidy along the road ways. I think the graphics card should have been 8g+ ram rather than 6 ideally, but with the price of computers around here, the cheapest laptop with 8 was the next model up of this one and it was a $600 price leap which was just more than I could afford. Hopefully there's more options in your market. I think GPUs are coming down in price too so don't be scared to hold off if there's no urgency to switching.

It's ok, it's licensed/authorized by the brand/trademark owner for use in Second Life. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Coca-Cola

Can't you just use Blender ( Addons tab --> enable Import-Export: BioVision Motion Capture (BVH) format), or has that changed since the version I have?