Rick Nightingale

Golden retrievers offer welcoming LICKS.

Seems they've improved efficiency a lot since my GTX 1080 then; perhaps another reason I should consider upgrading. Mine can certainly help keep a room warm, and overheat it if we get a warm summer spell; unfortunately very rare for the last 10 years. Previous to that, there were times over the summer I couldn't bare to run the PC during the day because the room just got too hot and that was with a GTX 960 in the previous rig. Idle, with Firestorm minimised and just this web browser up, the GPU is at 52W. This is it at the fair about 30 seconds after TP'ing in. I saw a peak at 137W while turning around.

...and the use of electrical power, one of my (serious) thoughts, especially regarding GPUs now. Some of those could heat our living room!

Not sure about bat ears, but Aii has a superb set (several sets actually) of free Bento/BOM ears. You have to be in the group though, which is L$500 I think. Worth it if you spend anything there though as you get a discount, and other freebies too. There are some long ears in the packs. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii and Ego/130/91/1525 Edit: there's a picture of the ears at the above in-world link, so you can decide before shelling out for the group.

Feral elephants are really SCARY 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ 🐘

Advance notice

Caged animals get early depression, SADLY.

Chinese checkers

trash compactor

Many Australian kids enjoy RAMEN

LOL - yeah - what's wrong with that? Seriously though... it entirely depends what aspects of SL you enjoy most. For me, it's mostly about the visuals. A big, high-pixel screen and long draw distance, all graphics sliders ramped up to the max, is what I'm after in SL. My £1500 HP mini, the latest available, can't run SL worth a dime for what I want.

That's why I run a locked-down LTSC with extensive hardware and personal firewalls and local DNS.

Floaters linger under sewer hatchways H A T C H

Prices are a bit different in rip-off Britain so I'm not sure can be compared with dollar prices. However, I've been pricing an upgrade recently. My current, home-made, main PC is now ten years old based on the MB and CPU it still has. It was close to top level when I built it but life has changed a lot since then. It's had upgrades (SSDs, max'ed the ram to 16GB, GTX 1080Ti GPU). It still runs SL OK but with the latest Firestorm PBR beta, the system and GPU fans are ramping up and getting noisy a lot more than previously. GPU use is close to 100% and 80 Celsius much of the time. By contrast, my PC for everything except graphics-heavy stuff (because integrated Intel GPU) is an HP mini (size of a medium paperback book) with an i7-13700T CPU, 64GB RAM, 8TB NVME and external Dragonfly DAC and lives bolted underneath a little side table in the lounge here. That cost £1500 including the extras I installed, about 3 months ago when my previous little one bit the dust completely. It runs SL like a Citreon 2CV runs a formula one race, even on absolutely minimal graphics settings and no PBR. Replacing the main one with something worthwhile for SL and just the few games I sometimes play (Witcher 3 mostly; fortunately (for my wallet) I'm not really a gamer) would cost around £2000 for the parts. The only thing I can re-use is the case, and maybe an SSD for slow bulk storage. Spending less wouldn't make much sense; I would just want to upgrade. Upgrading is partly prompted by the fact that it is so old. At some point it's going to start failing; like the monitor I'm writing this on which now flickers badly for a minute or two every time it's powered on. I might as well build something new and decent rather than play fix-it with the old one. That's if I can find the money, and justify it for a PC that now only runs SL and related software like Blender, Photoshop, etc. and an occasional game. I could really do with knowing if SL is going to be around long enough to justify buying a PC for it 🤣

Sneakers have oblong, elastic SOLES