HeathcliffMontague
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This Mastodon stuff is actually interesting. It's like a throw-back in time from the 2000s and even the 90's, just with obviously more modern tech. Lost interest in Twitter aeons ago, obviously have FB to keep in touch with famlily, used it quite a lot over the years for work for relevant (closed) groups, and it's been pretty darned useful in that respect. (Changed the m to an r. Makes a lot of difference apparently)
LL mods, please don't close this thread unless it goes obviously out of line. Show some patience, it might go some place interesting
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11 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:
I like that we're here on a forum sharing contact info for another forum.
Says a lot about SL.
Might even call it a metaverse of sorts.
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1 minute ago, May Bunny said:
It's not confusing at all really. You make an account on a server, you make your bio, you follow people and you use hashtags.
That part I get. But what if "your" server is down?
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@Heath@ieji.de
Just chose a server that seemed fairly neutral and happened to be German. Absolutely no idea what I'm doing here. George Takei is on, though, so there is that.
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7 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
Clear your INVENTORY cache then log out. Reboot your modem then log back and wait for your inventory to load completely.
OP, this worked for me when I had a similar problem. We are just users like you replying, the forum is not any official LL help portal.
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My SL motto is live and let live.
Except things like should of and could of... Even "I should of ate.../I should of went there ". WTF happened to should've, could've, eaten and gone?
We all type fast and make mistakes. I often do. But basic stuff like that kinda "low key" (as the cool kids say) irks me a little.
Not on a Tonight we all dine in hell! level, but more of a hmm... Why would you do that? I'll go back to yelling at clouds now.
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Heh. We constantly try to convince people that SL is not a game, all the while acting like NPCs
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Looks promising, if you two somehow merge into one I'm sure you'll be unbeatable
Welcome to SL. And what Cinnamon said. Most are very friendly, don't be shy.
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14 hours ago, Charolotte Caxton said:
Thanks, I did not know how the rest of the world operates. I know some places times are off by half hours, 45 minutes, and so on, wasn't sure how years worked. So basically, the US does have it's own calendar and the rest rest of the world follows along? Who is the deciding time keeper? Greenwich? The Swiss? Genuinely curious now, I'll go Google since this is dangerously not SL although it is relevant cause we all live in different time zones. It's how I found out my best friend lives in tomorrow relative to me. Wild.
Geez. Didn't you know that the British invented time and gravity? Go watch some Al Murray on YouTube and get educated
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3 hours ago, SorachaNicEoghain said:
To creep people out and make them feel ignored and lonely?
That's why I do it... But seriously, I normally just TP home if I know I'm gonna be AFK for a while. Or if in a group of friends/aquaintances just let the folks around me know. There are legitimate reasons for going AFK, life happens, it's not really a big deal for me, but a lot of the time I feel it's just laziness or not caring that much. Yeah, I think it tends to give newbs a bad experience.
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On 12/6/2022 at 5:23 PM, Bree Giffen said:
I believe you can get 500 Mbps speeds on a fiber internet. I have cable internet and am getting 230 Mbps. I just unplugged the network cable from the laptop and my network wi-fi is only 30 Mbps.
I just tested. Got 300 fiber in the wall with my gaming desktop, and 270 plus on a newish acer with just a i5 gen11 and the dreaded intel HD. Wifi slows down compared to the "real" stuff, but not that much. A Samsung Galaxy A21s got just under 30.
BTW no, not replacing my Galaxy until it dies, fast enough for a phone and the battery life is still astounding. Just for a slight comparison
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Done the combat sim stuff, was fun but got old pretty fast. I'm in SL for SL, not for an FPS game. Taking most weapons out of a combat sim just causes a slight annoyance, if at all. For the most part. Don't do it, you'll get banned pretty fast.
Once this guy managed to to beam both me and my Porsche up into his space ship. It was a race, pretty liberal sim as far as what's allowed, and since I was about to beat him he resorted to that. He's a friend, though, and pretty no holds barred agreed beforehand. I was impressed more than annoyed
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22 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:
Few here understand how viewer graphics work. Nor are there many that understand how the viewer uses the computer. I'll give you some of basics.
SL Viewers are multi-threaded, meaning they can distribute their work among separate CPU cores. What this means to the non-techie is that multiple cores or needed. An Intel CPU like the i5 is ideal. The i3 will work but but it will bottle neck at times. The i7 and above is more than is needed... but that is as in needed for SL. So depending on what else you do i7 and up may be justified.
While SL Viewers run multiple threads (parallel tasks) the render thread in the view is ONE LARGE CPU CONSUMING THREAD. All other threads basically feed that thread. So faster CPU speeds are WAY better. I think CPU speed is the most impactful single feature. I consider 3.5GHz a minimum. But viewers will run on 1.5GHz laptops. But things will be slow. I overclock mine by 20% to 4.1GHz.
Memory... you need lots of FAST memory. 8GB is a minimum by the Lab's thinking. I think 16GB is more like the minimum. I prefer 32 or 64GB. Memory comes in different speeds. The faster memory is the more it costs. So, you balance performance and cost. You can look at the motherboard's specs to find out the fastest memory your motherboard can handle. That is the ideal speed.
Data storage... there are some misconceptions as to what is fastest. SSD's (Solid State Drive) are considered best. But, they aren't the fastest and if your motherboard has ePCI bus limits you may find an SSD is no faster then the less expensive mechanical hard drive with a fast disk because the PCI bus is overloaded. All these components have to work together. For the absolute fastest storage performance buy extra system memory and use a RAM Disk.
Video... NVIDIA has been way better at supporting the OpenGL system that SL uses. Apple/AMD is moving toward their own proprietary system and has poor support for OpenGL. So even if you ignore Apple's ties to the CCP and slave labor, Apple/AMD is a restrictive choice.
OpenGL, and SL in particular, do NOT support many of the great new features in NVIDIA's 3000 series cards. NVIDIA 1000 series and in particular the 1060 and 1080 cards are more than adequate. This is another performance vs cost balancing act. Newer is better overall. A 3060 is better than a 2060 than a 1060. But once a card gets you to 45 FPS in SL you have reached the system limit of what SL can use. While the viewer can render more than 45 frames what is being used to make the render can only be updated 45 times per second (Server FPS - frame rate).
If you buy the hottest game machine going and set your Draw Distance to 1024m in the viewer, depending on where you are standing, you are likely to see FPS in the 10 to 20 range. In other places you may see 150FPS. So in my opinion what you buy depends mostly on your budget because my OLD i5 6th gen machine with a 1060 video card gets 10 to 120+FPS depending on where I am standing.
Very well summarized. Might go over some folks heads, though. So if I might add: If you get a so-called gaming laptop, and don't really get all the spec stuff, make sure you don't get one that overheats. It's actually a real issue. Google the laptop you're interested in, read some reviews etc, and if unsure about any specific specs post here, and you'll prob get some good advice
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Gotta hand it to Zuch, he has a lot of people believing he actually coined the term metaverse.
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But a bit more seriously, what are you looking for? The fastest and still controllable cars you'll most likely find in SL are at 2RAW , fastest bikes are IK and Deezul, although MOTO is the new TAMA in a way. Just stupid fast.
Just depends what you are going for
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50 minutes ago, Jules Catlyn said:
As a creator i test regularly on the mainland. I don't do racing speeds there but at cruising speed i can do GTFO! runs just fine and take long drives. Even while using the ACS system. Which is what i use for my vehicles I get very few mishaps
Which is whyI I still recommend your vehicles. Got me into driving in SL in the first place
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Tried them all. OK, maybe not all, but pretty darned close. Got and old Bull God Chopper ACS bike that does SIM crossings better than any JFC or Moto Bazzi. Got an IK Cafe (KCP/ACS) racer which is dirty fast on tracks and still very good at SIM crossings.
Seems individual scripting makes a big difference. Biggest difference it how well you drive, though
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1 hour ago, Nick0678 said:
486DX-2 66Mhz.. or you bought one of those cheap Cyrix procs?
Nah, just at the brink of DX2, got that later. 33 MHz all the way....
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On 11/13/2022 at 7:39 PM, Jaylinbridges said:
There are more of us over 80 than most of you kids realize, but we don't admit it. Age discrimination and stereotypes rule in RL and SL.
In 1961 I took a grad level math course in machine language programming from a Physics professor (there was no such thing as Computer Science, and the electrical engineering dept was still teaching vacuum tubes and analog computers.) The ML exams were all about solving simple problems with ones and zeros , long strings of them, and if they crashed the mainframe test system, you failed. Been in technology since I built my first crystal radio set at age 9, from a public library book published in 1935. Not much is new for me in technology, just refinements built on past research.
And I thought I was old here building my first PC in 1992. For me the generation gap is arrows vs WASD. Can do the latter, but it's like driving in the UK, gotta rewire big time for it
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54 minutes ago, belindacarson said:
No negativity from me. Just pointing out, that many users including myself, take time to help new users, but don't need feel an urge to run posting threads saying "hey hey look at me and what I've done".
I get where you're coming from, and my post certainly wasn't intented for folks to bash on you. I just found the OP to be a rather positive one.
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1 hour ago, belindacarson said:
so you were doing what most users do anyway but we don;t feel a need to boast about it.
Why the negativity? Honest question, don't mean no harm, I come in peace
What's wrong with posting new user experiences?
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Human. My Dalek doesn't count, nor does my Roman soldier. Just a boring old human who goes around doing human stuff.
But have a soft spot for tinies, as they were among the first ones who greeted me properly in this weird space and took me in
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Actual guy waiting patiently for the MM and Lucky letter for a bike at Turrlaccor bikes.
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On 11/5/2022 at 6:31 PM, Rolig Loon said:
My mother taught us that it's not polite to ask a woman's age
So how much do you weigh?
(This is gonna get laughs or get me clobbered...)
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