Rick Nightingale

That's just it... making things no mod is preventing purchasers from doing exactly that. It is deliberately restricting a purchaser's freedom to be creative and to use the item they bought how they see fit within what the platform allows. The makers who set no-mod are choosing to do that; to deliberately restrict the freedom of others. Those who want modify permissions are not trying to restrict the freedom of the maker's creative expression or ability to sell what they want. We are (at least I am) arguing that they should not restrict our freedom. Our rights (whatever that even means) are as important as theirs.

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Alliteration livens literature skills OFTEN.

(Beaten to it, sorry) Fanatical acolytes dangerously evoke SATAN

Tyrannical rulers unfortunately last YEARS

Yaks' unfiltered milk makes yogurt M I L K Y

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Bicycle riders annoyingly veer erratically C R A S H

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Anteaters want ants inside them. SNACK

Sparrowhawks hover over corncrake KILLS

Swordfish tataki (now my mouth's watering!)

That's what I'm looking at mostly, if I do upgrade. My usual supplier has plenty in stock of all the usual makes. I need to do a lot of research before dropping that kind of money though, on all of it. My knowledge was reasonably good... ten years ago when I built my last big PC and worked in the industry. Since then it's been practically non-existent. So far, my shortlist looks like this: MB: MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Max CPU: Intel 14700KF GPU: 16GB 4060Ti; the quietest running one I can determine RAM: 96GB DDR5 6400 (2x48GB) Storage: 2TB NVME for OS, 4TB NVME for bulk processing (some of the stuff I do can use it). Already have 64TB on NAS in my loft rack for actual data. Monitor: Dell U2724D - arriving next week due to current monitor failing PSU: to be determined when I finalise what it needs to power Cooling: Need to think about that. Currently have an enormous (15cm cube) CPU heatsink with home-made ducting and multiple, quiet Noctua 140mm fans directing air throughout the server-size chassis. I don't like noise and the PC lives in the living room now instead of my 'office'. Could do with a smaller case too though, for that reason. I once planned a liquid cooling system in the loft, above the office, using a header tank, central heating pump and heat exchanger through the external wall. Even put the pipes in but never got it finished due to stuff that went on.

Biting insects trigger epidermal scratching MIDGE

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Rotten inside, pears even now DECAY. 🍐

Daring rappels attract mountaineers' attention. CLIMB

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This thread has got me thinking that this could be a useful use of AI; generating (or at least switching) animations that relate to the speakers tone of voice, content, etc. It would probably work a bit like auto-generated subtitles, where occasionally it gets the subtitles wrong due to early mistranslation or just misidentification. LL... are you listening? Companies are plugging AI into anything and everything whether we want it and it is actually useful or not. Maybe LL should jump on that bandwagon. If nothing else it would give us all something new to moan about if when it breaks.

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.

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