Jaylinbridges

If you get the yellow box warning of a restart, it's not a crash. A screenshot of "the region is going down" would be useful. Crashes usually just happen, often with your screen going to black and white first. A short restart of 1 to 2 mins is typical now, if it is just a normal server refresh. Also some Linden owned regions restart on Friday's. Linden Realms and PaleoQuest games for instance. Sometimes with a 60 sec warning and some with 240 second warning. They all restarted on April 23.

I think this could be a hint of a future Bellisseria Linden Home theme/region. Check out all the other characters in the preview video - they didn't just come in off the street in those costumes, well unless it was the Castro district. Patch hinted a future theme would be out of this world, so perhaps this is the start of that campaign. Getting more Premium members $99 USD to join is still LL's new income stream. BTW, that progress bar goes much faster after it has cached in your browser, about 1/2 second for me.

I was comparing it to the SL Photo, and the RL model was a woman (I think). So you used a male Catwa head on a female body, which is why I said the head looked like a guy. Trans girl is what I should have said, but it had the head shape of a man, so that's what came out. No insult intended, and not sure what your chosen gender has to do with building an SLavatar that looked close to the RL photo. You didn't say it was your normal avatar, with blue skin, so why would I think that was you?

As noted in OP, Robin's store and creations are still available to admire at her stores at Livingtree. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Livingtree/117/124/25

Point Taken... Marketing will change their Main page to this image next week, after they commission their production company partnership team to produce this picture with real models:

10 mins is just some text message inserted in Tillia's software because there is no way they can predict execution times less than that. And as they say, 10 mins could be 10 hours, since they can not predict the future. As I said just bid a a price in the money, where the software will always execute your order first and you only lose 1$L in exchange rate which is trivial. I think I assumed you always did Market Instant orders, which is really only for the financial "impatient", to be kind.

No 249 was listed as 10 mins, so I use 248 and it executes in minutes. The minimum "wait time" is always 10 mins with Tillia's software, even if you will accept 100 L$/ 1 USD. But if you are first in line, you get instant execution. If you want to see how many orders are ahead of you, look at the live market transactions, updated every 15 seconds on the Lyndex. If there are only 10,000 $L at 248, and since First In FIrst Out is the algorithm, your wait will be very short. Paying directly in USD avoids all these trading games of course, and avoids the new fees.

I am not Rathgrith, but I made the post you are asking about. I won't reveal the company here, but it's one of the top five SL land companies in holdings, and the name begins with Z.

Go 1 Linden farther and your Limit Order will fill in minutes. And there is about a 750 $L savings using a Limit Buy order vs a Market order. The 10 min wait was for 249 $L/USD. Enter 248 and its only a few minutes. You still save about $3 USD additional on a $100 order before the fee increase with a Limit order:

Some landlords have taken rent payment via PayPal or credit card for years. After all, LL insists you pay your land tier in USD, which they take from your Tillia $ balance or PayPal or credit card, and they charge no fees for this. So why would a private land company not be allowed to accept payment in USD, just as LL does? My land company has always allowed this. Here is the web page where I would make a direct payment from my Paypal for monthly parcel rent: If I bought Lindens each month to pay my rent, It would cost me $50.65 x 1.075 = $54.45 USD/mo. A difference of $54.45 - $47.15 = $7.30/mo more to buy Lindens with the new fee schedule. Of course I could do a Limit Buy for $48.82 plus 7.5% fee and save a few bucks, but most Residents don't know about that, and just use the market price and buy through their viewer. If your private landlord does not accept dollars as payment, I guess you could always suggest they do, or find a new landlord.

That would be a 225% increase in a Premium account! Possible, but might be too pessimistic. Mandatory 2FA, Premium increase, a fee for Basic, and closing down all Adult regions! That would satisfy the bean counters, the paranoid, and the prudes. That's the ticket !

The simplest answer is a Linden made a typo

In my Firestorm, all 40 zoom levels work perfectly. Are you running out of memory to cache the tiles? Slow internet connection? I thought the tiles were all loaded into AWS site.

What?

The Map is Finally Fixed Seems worth another bump. Given all the complaining about no Big Map for the last 6 months, I'm surprised not more hurrah's are here. But that's the SL forums for you - Bad New Sells, good news, blah... And not everyone reads the Technology Forum, Solar.

There are mulitple videos going back to the start of the new Linden Homes in Bellisseria, but they were professionally made by SL Residents, NOT LL marketing amateurs, and of course paid nothing by LL for their many weeks of effort. Here is a 26 min Bellli Linden Home review celebrating Bellisseria's Two Year Anniversary on April 15, 2021, made by some friends of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Vs4QnZ0v0 Note Patch Linden, VP of LL, introduced the video. Why is this hidden from new and potential SL members? Credits: Pring Productions Video Production by Sceneris Prudence Anton Cian Wycliffe Music Mix by Alex Zelin Also see other Belli videos made by the Residents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzaVJeEQOzUWgeS4ToENLOA/videos LL marketing for the best SL can offer is certainly ass-backwards. No excuse if their goal is to attract more Premium paying members.

Famous last words. 2FA would have to be optional or several accounts I use would need to quit SL. This is not a simple issue when you consider the exceptions based on disability, travel (computers/offices in different states), and simply helping a partner out of an impossible technical situation. I am already thinking of the workarounds needed if they make it mandatory. Most of my financial RL accounts have 2FA and are NOT optional, btw. If the batteries on my smartphone have run down, I need to wait long enough for the batteries to charge up to access the wireless network. Pain in the azz, when I live home alone with an already strong password, and need to login quickly. Impossible if I have my accounts installed on several computers at different locations.

You can always use WinAmp which is free, with the free Shoutcast plugin you can download. Despite Winamp not being supported for 4 years, it still all works. These are the step by step instructions for Winamp shoutcast music streaming from your computer. You still need to buy a stream. The cheapest ones are 10 listeners at 128 kbps stereo, for around 100 $L/month. http://www.kickazz.com/WINAMP SETUP PAGE.htm Kickazz also has the steps to use with other modern music/DJ systems, but for just playing music winamp will work. And no it's not obsolete, as I am sure somebody will claim - just never upgraded or supported by the company that bought them. Winamp Lite also works if you don't need all the bells and whistles. I assumed you are using Windows. If you are on a Mac and don't use a Windows simulator, look for IceCast solutions.

Wanna tell you a storyAbout the house rent bluesI come home one Friday Had to tell the landlady I'da lost my job She said that don't confront me Long as I get my money next FridayNow next Friday come I didn't get the rentAnd out the door I went... House Rent Blues/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer George Thorogood from Amos Milburn and John Lee Hooker ========================================= Some get paid weekly, and spend it all by Sunday morning...

I have a stream on my land, but it only goes ripple, ripple. So I found a free radio for music.

I was only repeating what the former VP of Engineering at Linden Lab (Oz) said his last day of work at LL. The bottom line was that at the present time AWS was costing LL more than the costs for their aging farm in Arizona. With your qualifications, you might apply for his job, as they are looking for a new VP.

Inara Pey's web blog has an interesting discussion of the AWS servers when SL was moving to the AWS cloud back in November. https://modemworld.me/2020/11/19/ll-confirms-second-life-regions-now-all-on-aws/ They are all located in Oregon at the present time. (We have banned all up to date Big Maps here for security reasons - the real reason the Big Map doesn't work.) * * or not.

Just doing my part to keep the thread active

It's a small hit to the middle class, just like RL taxes. Mainand tier is not charged any fee with a connected paypal or credit card with a balance available. Private island land (rent from land companies) is often charged in lindens though, so that will increase land costs somewhat. But larger land barons also will accept dollars from your paypal directly, so you can avoid the linden purchase fee that way.

Your membership is charged in dollars, not Lindens, so this Linden purchase fee should not affect you. Unless you buy Lindens of course.