Rohan Dockal

Not for that price. Not gaming laptops anyway.

As I mentioned, you can plug a keyboard into it. It would probably support BT keyboards as well.

Wondering what you all think of this device for running SL? One of the biggest barriers to SL right now is that while years ago you could run your viewer with a decent frame rate on an ordinary computer, now you need a powerful gaming computer to run SL smoothly, especially if you are in public areas where the lag is high. But gaming computers cost a lot. However, this one is about to be launched for only $699. For those that don't know about it, this thing looks a lot like a Nintendo Switch, but it's actually a full computer and runs windows. It supposedly can run games with a very good frame rate. It doesn't have a keyboard, but you can attach one. You can also hook it up to a monitor if the screen is too small, but it has 1080 resolution just like most computer monitors today. Apparently the battery life is terrible though, I don't think there's a way around that. More performance = more power consumption. But this might be a great way for people to enjoy SL who have been frustrated by low frame rates and lag. https://www.ign.com/articles/asus-rog-ally-review https://www.wired.com/review/asus-rog-ally/ Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Zen 4 CPU Speed: 2.8GHz GPU: AMD RDNA 3 Display: 7-inch IPS touchscreen Resolution: 1920x1080 display at 120Hz Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD Memory: 16GB LPDDR5 RAM Audio: Dual speakers with Dolby Atmos Security: Fingerprint Scanner I/O: USB Type-C (top), headphone jack, MicroSD expansion, Asus PCIe port Battery: 40WHrs Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2

For the past 5 years, I've already been renting a plot of land that's something over 1/4 sim along the Blake sea for around 28,000L, roughly $105 month, so over $1200 per year. I can handle that fine, but it's still quite a bit to spend when I'm using it for purely personal reasons and not commercial ones. If instead I was just paying fees to LL, I would save at least $30 a month. Yes, I would have to outlay a lot of cash to buy the land, but theoretically I could sell it for at least that much when I'm done with it.

I'm not a newbie to SL, but I am new to buying land. After 12 years or renting land, I think I might as well buy it instead. Preferably a plot between a quarter and a half region, somewhere along the Blake Sea. So tell me if I got this straight. I find the land for sale, I purchase it for whatever amount, but then I still have to pay monthly fees to LL, right? Per their site, probably between $67-112 per month. Are there any other fees involved? Are the fees the same no matter where on the mainland it is? Are there zoning restrictions? Like if it's my land I can use it for commercial or residential, right? If I stop paying the fees, then I assume it becomes abandoned land available to anyone to buy? And if so - how late do the fees have to be? One day late? Or is there some grace period before it officially becomes abandoned? Also, since I have a free Linden home that I never claimed and never used, can that 1024m allowance go toward reducing my fees?

OK, for what it's worth, got this thing down consistently. Go to "connections", the "mobile networks", then change your network to 4GLTE instead of 5G. Then restart the phone. Should work just fine now.

hmmmm it worked one day, but not the next. So frustrating.

Also, restart your phone.

I also have a Samsung S21, and was able to log into SL for weeks with no problem, then in the last couple months only it wouldn't work. It kept getting stuck on "waiting for region handshake". I tried everything. Using another viewer, another laptop, tweaking every one of my settings, turning off firewalls, moving to a different spot, nothing would work. I could still get blazing fast 5G speed in my browser. I could also log into SL using the Lumiya app. But I couldn't get into SL thorugh my laptop. Today FINALLY I was able to get in after making the following changes to my phone. I just logged out and logged back in three times successfully so it looks like this really works. Go to "Settings", then "Connections", then "Mobile Hotspot and Tethering", put your finger on "Mobile Hotspot" for a moment and let go, so you see the options there. Make sure Security is set to "WPA2-Personal", Band is set to "5 GHz preferred" , the MAC address type is set to "Phone MAC", and "Support Wi-Fi 6 standard" is on. That's all I changed and now it works. BTW, to respond to someone above, SL doesn't use as much data as you think. In a typical evening, maybe 300 mb or so, if I travel to a couple new places, and keep my streaming media off. Obviously if you are playing region music and/or videos, and teleporting around a lot, that will add to the data. If you stay at a familiar place thats already loaded in your cache, and keep all media off, the data used will be considerably less.

Either EEP is crazy, or it's not working for me as intended. For the record, I usually keep my graphics on ultra or close to it. I'm using Firestorm because almost everyone I know does as well. I prefer to set the viewer to "shared environment" because I want to see the same sky that everyone else sees. I don't want to be looking at bright daylight while my friends are all midnight, for example. Here is my the problem. Under shared environment, for some reason it's constantly dark. Nights are really dark, no surprise. But even the day is too dark. Instead of a bright blue sky, it's a very dark blue. And the contrast is so high, everything not facing the sun is in a dark shadow and difficult to see. At night I can adjust the gamma level, and that helps, but that resets the next time I log on. I could turn shadows off, and that helps a little, but even with them off, there is still way too much contrast. Don't tell me to just change the windlight - yes that works, but then I won't be seeing the sky in sync with everyone else. Also, I can't find any manual or documentation how to use this. It's as if Firestorm just swapped the dashboard of an automobile with the dashboard of a jumbo jet and expects us to be able to figure it out. For example, what does "scale" do? What about "glow focus"? etc. I've checked the Firestorm site, the EEP blog, and the wiki. They are much more focused on telling us how great this is, or telling you how to make presets. But I could always change my personal windlight before EEP, so I don't see what the difference is there I consider myself fairly technically minded, and I've been on SL for 11 years, and I can't figure this out. So how is a new person supposed to?

Thank you, I think that's it!! I did some serious testing today and found out that the middle graphics setting got me a better frame rate than the lowest setting. I think that's why catznip seemed to work better initially. And thats not all - Today I extensively tested Firestorm and Catznip viewer at 4 locations. Both graphic settings were identical (set to mid) and the network settings were identical too. In each case I gave it several minutes to settle down so everything could load after teleporting to that location. 1. Inside a small box 2000m in the air: Firestorm: 80 fps, Catznip 100fps 2. On the ground, looking at these waves hitting my beach: Firestorm: 44 fps, Catznip 15fps 3. At a public store (Truth Hair), with 3 people in my field of vision: Firestorm: 28 fps, Catznip 28fps 4. At a club (Fogbound) looking at the dance floor, at least 20 people: Firestorm: 15 fps, Catznip 15fps Overall there was no real difference except for the beach at my house. That result was so bizarre I tested it twice, and still same results.

I guess that's my only real option, but I wonder how many times do I need to upgrade? I wonder if Sansar will be better. I do have to point out that your 120 FPS doesn't really exist. At least I've been told by people that the highest SL supports is 45, so anything above that is superfluous. I did try Catznip viewer and here's the weird thing - it did noticeably improve my FR at the clubs. However, back at my house, it was slightly worse then Firestorm! However on balance, it performs better. Only problem is I'm used to running Firestorm with the Old Phoenix interface and Catznip confuses the hell out of me...

Yes, I've turned off advanced lighting. As I said, when I'm at clubs I turn down to the absolute lowest setting, and it's still laggy. Using a different viewer is a new suggestion - I'll try that.

Trust me, I don't need any tips on tweaking my settings or selecting my graphics card. I have tried EVERYTHING. And even though my graphics card is from 2015, that doesn't tell the whole story - SL ran better for me back in 2009, and I was obviously using a much more low powered machine back then.

Second life didn't used to be as laggy as it is today, and I don't think I'm imagining it, because my friends all say the same thing. I've been on almost 10 years now, since 2009. I didn't pay attention to my frame rate in the past, but in the past we could go to clubs, even crowded clubs as a group. It was a little laggy, but we could dance, and see each other dancing. Now it's impossible to enjoy except at the most empty places. For example, as I type this, I'm in the Fogbound club (a popular place every night). Even with my graphics preferences on the absolute lowest settings, I'm getting a FR of only 2 (TWO!!!) if my camera is in the direction of the dance floor. So in other words, if I actually want to look at people, all I can see are some glimpses of movement, and mesh body parts floating around the room. Even typing in IM is laggy. If the camera is on myself only, no other people, then the FR goes up to 11. If I stare at the brick wall only, then it goes up to 50. What gives? Just for reference, I'm using a laptop with an i7 processor, 16 gb ram, Windows 10, and an Nvidia graphics card (GeForce 940M), and have a very fast internet connection. I know that's not the absolute top of the line graphics card, but my machine is well above average. And I used much more modest computers years ago, some had no dedicated graphics card at all, yet SL ran more smoothly back then. Hell, I remember years ago using a very basic laptop on a library wifi connection and going to clubs or other public areas without much problem. I've heard some people speculate mesh is causing this problem. But mesh is less prim heavy, so it seems the opposite would be true. But if it is, then was introducing mesh bodies really worth it? Is there some other reason this is happening?