Anna Nova

I went to get a redelivery of something from 2017. Landed in the new interface, and was told 'Internal Error'. I tried a few other things at the same store and got the same, then asked for my SL name and put through a registration of a new password conversation. It looks very like an intercept scam, except I get a secret number in-world. Has this been announced somewhere and I missed it?

Wow! I blinked and there were 15 pages of comments on this tripe! I promise I didn't read any of them. Come on people, get a life!

Best laugh in ages, thanks everyone!

Oh shiii.... was it that long ago. I must be getting old. I was <number less than 18> at the time....

I always find laughing at American 'democracy' is a joy. You make all that fuss about 'for the people, by the people', and then elect dictators who just do 'for our rich friends and their bigoted opinions, by the people who are funded into politics by them'. Let's all hope the rich bastards of America don't start to think SL is another source of wealth - or something that offends their warped pseudo-Christian sensitivities - when they do, we are dooooomed.

I've moved to Cool VL Viewer (Merci, Henri) for just this issue. And the constant thrashing. And I have 32Mb of memory. Arch Linux on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with Nividia GTX 1080 Ti - not the latest I know.

Well, this is extremely interesting. I'm a great believer in the 'if it ain't broke, slap anyone who tries to change it' philosophy. @Wulfie Reanimator I'd love to try your AO, please. I am Anna Nova in-world too.

I'm moving from Firestorm to Cool VL Viewer. I won't go into the reasons, mostly they are driven by my Linux needs. This means that I need an AO, I have been using the built-in since before the flood, and my inventory only contains a very ancient ZHAO II AO. Amazingly this still works really well, but I wonder if there is something hugely better out there. I do not need to buy any animations, I have a good selection that works for me. What does the team suggest?

Stay basic, you can afford more stuff...

500$L Lucybody Vania. Almost all Lara Petite fits it.

I'm pretty sure the 'I' in AI stands for 'idiot', not 'intelligence'. And the 'A' stands for something between it's buttocks.

What kind of crash? I get a freeze of SL, and then after about 60 seconds, 'You have been logged out'. I wish it would really crash, then I wouldn't waste 60 seconds thinking I was still on-line! (Ryzen 7 2700X, 32G, GTX 1070ti, Archlinux) I had put it down to the Linux, but it could be the GTX1070ti, I guess.

It's really rather sad how the market works these days. The days of proper free market competition seem to be over both in RL and SL. There are products that are just so dominant that no one else can get a look in. Catwa comes from the era of free market competition, but the arrival of EvoX eclipsed it. Tell me where I can get a cell phone that isn't made by Crapple and running IOS or something paying Alphablot to run Android? Yes there are niche players, you can even get a Linux phone, but market share 0.0...1%, and profitability zilch. I'm really sorry Catwa didn't jump on the EvoX bandwagon. Look what happened to Slink. But this is the same everywhere, freedom is over folks.

Cat who?

No one mentions it, but Lucybody have a couple of mesh heads at 500L$. I already have several EvoX Lelutka heads that I like so I have not bought one, but the demos looked okay.

Thanks @Rowan Amore, I did check the Status page, but, as usual, LL is a bit (pronounced 'extremely') slow on that. It arrived in the end, so all's well.

I bought something on MP for an alt, it was quicker than giving it some money (or so I thought). 3 hours later it has not arrived. It's from a reputable seller with a thriving in-world business. How long is reasonable to wait before starting to complain. The L$ has gone from my account, and shows in my transactions.

I keep looking at this thread and wanting to post this, so I finally succumb: Totally Fantastic, thanks!

Interesting! Am I right in saying that by using a defomer on Maitreya one can get a more curvy shape for a short avatar and still have all the clothes fit? It's the 2000 outfits for Maitreya that stop me even contemplating moving body!

I think I took the best 3 days off login in to SL that I could... Must be divine guidance.

A word of advice. Always keep L$1 in your account. That way you can get the freebies that need you to pay L$1 and get a refund with the item.

Thank you all for this thread, I have never encountered the problem that @Coffee Pancakeraised, but if I did I would be just as incensed. I just added a few extra rules to my shopping. When I go to 'events' it is always to buy a specific thing that the vendor is debuting at the event, AND has a non-event demo for. I land, I cam to the vendor, buy the item, TP out. So events, so far, are fine for me. Now, if the demo was not accurate, say for instance, it contained a hud that wasn't in the purchased item, that would be the last time I bought from that vendor. And I would probably write a notecard telling them why, and kept to remind me. Commerce in a laissez-faire economy is a learning process, if you don't learn you will get badly burned. Those of us brought up in semi-socialist economies (UK, in my case) don't have the learned-responses that Americans have, I'm afraid. The EU keeps trying to dumb-down the population by trying to ban caveat-emptor, it will not work in the Big Wide World (just like in SL).

Learning any programming language is a great investment in time. Just thank God it isn't the 1960, and the only alternatives were COBOL and FORTRAN....

I use Firestom over ProtonVPN. My system in Archlinux, and my broadband tests out at about 60Mbps with the VPN, and 62Mbps without it (6xHTTPS). Every time I log in I have to go through a little dance: Log-in attempt 1: So then I hit OK, and try again: and so then I hit Quit, and try a 3rd time: and I am always in. Everything works, the lag is just as incredibly bad as it is without the VPN, but no worse. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Any suggestions to diagnose it? Edit: I should add I get straight in if I turn the VPN off, and always have done.

Right! That's it! Now we got to 8 pages of this daft thread. Anyone over 1.50m entering my land is banned. I am also banning anyone wearing purple, can't think how to script that yet though...