Odaks

Aid worker

Cohort study

Just about everything here, as described originally, is pointing to sim crossing failure. As there are a number of different causes for this, as has been pointed out, a systematic approach to "tidy everything up" before you even board your vessel is essential. I have a mental checklist that I run through:- ** AO off and all non-essential huds and scripts removed. (I have a few outfits, specially for sailing, that have all scripts removed from clothing.) ** Graphics turned down a peg or two; Draw Distance raised to 512m. Your own computer hardware dictates what you can get away with here. ** Minimap and World Map positioned on-screen; local chat "box" made as small as possible and parked on the bottom edge. Hopefully, following the guidance given (above) if necessary, your internet connection is in good shape..... ... and, next time it all goes horribly wrong, you will be able to point a bigger finger at the server, rather than towards yourself! Bon voyage!

Snout beetle

Jacket potato

Bone dry (we've got away with dropping the S before, so I guess this is ok!)

Silly moves attract real trouble; FALLS

Jokers wild

breaker bar

Jingle Bells

Like @Matty Luminos, I've just looked this up to find out what it is. Had I have done so at the time, I'd still be going round one of our better supermarkets right now...

We always start joking, around the end of November, that we'd better put the brussels on now - meaning, so that they'd be cooked by Christmas Day! Its always seemed that the old-fashioned way was to boil them to a near pulp and, Matty is so right, they're terrible like that. I choose smallish ones and drop them into fast boiling water for 5 minutes. They come out with a light, crunchy texture and all the flavour is retained. You will find, however, there is no grey area with brussels. You either love them or hate them! Patiently explaining to the haters about all the goodness they contain never works, either!

girl power (yea!!)

Boulder City

Cold shoulder

Gay Cavalier

Rentals would, I'm sure, be construed as commercial use - the premium member occupying originally would be receiving reward in the way of profit from it. I don't believe the "set to group" facility is a good enough loophole to escape that.

My understanding is that you CANNOT "deed" the land at all, but you can "set" it to a group. The ownership remains with Governor Linden. Renting out is a strict no-no, though.

Whenever I'm not actually doing something in particular (which isn't that often because there's always so much to do and learn), people-watching is the winner every time. Let's face it; people-watching is a hoot in RL, but in SL, well, just don't be surprised at what can pass you in the street!

Second Life, maybe indeed. These Forums though? Never!!

Some people, for example, living in a very remote area, maybe disabled and housebound, might just experience Second Life becoming their "First Life" in a way. It is possible that a conscious decision to "log back into RL" doesn't hold much appeal for them. For my own part, I'm just grateful that RL occasionally leaves me alone long enough to get any time in SL!

And..... all of this sort of thing has been well thrashed out on the (far more appropriate?) Technology Forum that @Erwin Solo pointed to in post #2. A glance through the first few pages of that forum will reveal several very useful threads of similar queries. Summarising some significant points: * Forget laptops, get a desktop. That's fine unless you need a laptop, as I do. I'm running a purpose built laptop with an i7 8750H (2.2GHz, 4.1GHz Turbo), GeForce® GTX 1070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR5, 32MB of RAM, SSD Drive 256GB (With only Windows, programs and SL's caches on it) and a 2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 2.5" SSHD for all the other junk that we need storage for. You can fry eggs on it if the fans and vents don't stay squeaky clean, and a cooler tray is a must! Maybe not as portable as I'd have liked, and its set me back around £2k in total. With a cable connection to my modem/router, I can max out graphics and sometimes stay over 20fps. Over WiFi, shadows have to go. That's a pretty damned good specification, and it will still struggle with some scenes in Ultra graphics. *The quality of your internet connection is critical. Ok, not part of your computer's specifications, but don't expect good results over a bad connection. *Forget the lure of a "Gaming Machine". Buy on specifications, not on flashy sales-talk! A lot of "gaming machines" are expecting to be running fully optimised graphics from the off-the-shelf games. Second Life can throw a graphics demand that will totally overwhelm all but the highest specs ones. In particular, do have a look at this, which refers to the total shambles that the LL System Requirements specification has become.

I am so glad to hear that I'm not the only idiot to have done that!

@Tari Landar, that just about sums the entire fiasco up quite nicely! But, the really creepy thing about it all, that you touched on in your last sentence, is the "converse creepiness" factor. The number of times I've alt_clicked on an ordinary picture (outside of SL) is getting quite frightening!

One of the most popular modern day fads has got to be pressing F5 repeatedly (within set limits, of course) to refresh the Land page in the hope of getting one of the new Linden Homes. However, the "fad of all fads" award, at the moment, surely has to go to abandoning a new Linden Home, then pressing F5 repeatedly in the hope of getting a better new Linden Home! (Lazier Craftier players of this have discovered the joys of auto-refresh functions.) Lots of folks, who haven't yet succeeded in getting one of the new homes, will be praying that this will soon rate as a "short-lived" fad, I'm sure!