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This has already been mentioned but it's such a huge misconception it bares repeating. Once upon a time, way back when, years and years ago. LL organized their servers into "classes", bigger number more better, the usual thing. Then they stopped telling us about how they managed their datacenter, allowing people to presume things were the same even though they were cleverly finding ways to pack more regions onto one machine. This lack of updates is why people STILL freak out over script memory. It wasn't even true when people were freaking out, it's certainly not true now. LL have spent years moving stuff off the regions and onto external services. Eg: back in the long forgotten darks days the region would send you all the data, now the region just tells you the name of the data and your viewer grabs it from entirely different services. This has dramatically reduced the amount of work regions actually need to do and can pack more regions together on the same host. Fast forward to today and it's all on Amazons cloud. One physical machine could be carved up into multiple sim hosts each running an unknown number of regions and homesteads, you might not even stay on the same sim host between region restarts (and you can certainly request a laggy region be moved to a different one) Script time numbers can only be trusted when the region is performing normally. Once a region is in the toilet, script numbers can end up all out of whack. Also, don't mix up region performance and viewer performance - server side lag and viewer lag are entirely different, entirely unconnected things. Also also .. All viewers, ALL VIEWERS are built upon the same code from LL and function fundamentally the same way. We fiddle around the edges and improve things we feel are important, but we can't stray too far from the Linden viewer .. or adding updates from LL becomes an impossible amount of work and stuff just breaks. Some viewer projects really like to talk up the magic their project accomplishes ... don't buy the hype. Alchemy stomps on your CPU in all the same ways as every other viewer, maybe more! Always have the linden viewer in your arsenal of test viewers. Finally, don't look at the maximum biggest numbers when working out what a region can do. You can have UPTO a certain number of stuffs, UPTO a certain amount of scripts, UPTO a certain number of avatars. You probably can't have everything to the max all at once - That would be what the $900 event regions are for .. and even then, if you max out the avatars, you can't max out the scripts and objects.

She also neglects to mention that everything there is to buy is made by other people in SL. Wake me up when she starts helping people who are addicting to work, luring people in with the promise of a sweet paycheck and not needing to sleep under a bridge.

If your collar parrots everything said on channel /1 back to you via llOwnerSay (light yellow text) .. then maybe that's all they need to do, and you should probably take it up with whoever made your collar scripts because there is no point even having owners or trusted people at that point.

Almost broke my damn neck doing that !

Yes, they are also holding back a lot of land that isn't in use and isn't for sale or even rent.

The bulk of really good plots are still in the hands of the people who bought them at launch. Horizons was a gift to land barons, which is why it failed to take off despite having almost everything that made Belli a roaring success. Even now, if a Horizons parcel gets actually abandoned, you can't put a claim in for it as a neighbor, it MUST go to auction where some investment group will suck it up for a premium.

This is how we spot fake occupancy that occurs sometimes between shuffling parcels from one land group to another. Group sells land to an "individual", said person tosses up a structure and decorates, then never returns, a group buys the parcel and wipes it .. sometimes the "individual" turns out to be the owner of the new land holding group or has a name eerily similar. When a real person buys a plot of land with a starting price of $600 US (L$150K) .. they tend to show up fairly often.

I grew up split between being shoved out the house because it was "character building" and hiding away in books that were old before I got them. Got online as soon as I struck out on my own and have been in full on catch up mode ever since. The world turned out to be a much bigger and richer place and I had been deliberately kept from it because my parents didn't approve. The people I grew up with who didn't get online are the same nationalist sexist racist drunks they were at 18. Sod the river. No one ever became a better, smarter or more socially aware person by wasting their days sat in the mud, as though that was a better baby sitter than the TV. Give the kids phones, give them all the tech and access to information their chaotic little minds can handle, bury them in glimpses of other lives, other people who don't look like them, frantic stupid games and shiny fads they can burn though in a week. If they wanna zone out and watch endless hours of tiktok, so be it, it's far better than the crap we did when we zoned out. Sure, they wont turn our just like you, and that's a good thing, because their world doesn't look anything like the one we were brought up for. "We played in the mud, those of us who didn't catch some terrible illness or almost drown turned out just fine" .. and yet here we are .. here, of all places. Growing old in a ponderous make believe world pretending we're in our 20's all over again. Why? because we don't fit out there.

Grew up playing in a river. As an adult knowing what's in that innocuous looking crystal clear water.. there is no way in hell I would recommend anyone's kids go near it. At least one of our friend group had long lasting health issues as a result. Complaining about kids looking at their phones all day is no different from complaining about the kids who lived in books. Let them do what they want.

A relay on auto can just be sent commands, including teleport commands - there are huds that facility this kind of "capture" The command in question is @tpto:X/Y/Z=force Where X, Y and Z are global grid coordinates (not local region coordinates). I've had a relay on auto for years and had things like this happen a couple of times, although it's genuinely rare.

No, they actually don't. Actual residential or business occupancy on Horzons is very low. I've been tracking land ownership changes on the regions I have Horizons parcels on (via script) and parcel ownerships changes are for the most part short lived holding groups cycling parcels between each other. Sometimes an intermediary "real" avatar is involved, but they tend to put up a home for a couple of weeks, not actually use it, and then cycle it back into one of many holding groups. The price goes up at every step. Much of the dead land is never actually listed for sale and has never had any occupancy. Parcels tend to stay on one group for several months before being shuffled .. then being moved to a brand new group attached to seemingly different avatars. This has been the pattern for years.

Horizons was 50K a parcel not so long ago, the insane prices (150K - 500k) now is entirely down to land speculators flipping land to each other. Zindra is so expensive because almost all the land is owned by a single vendor and their business model seems to involve collecting land but not actually selling it. When Zindra was announced the rules were so vague that 2 kinky couples sharing a home could be counted as public Adult. No one wanted to take the risk of the smut-police roaming around getting them banned so everyone moved .. Zindra turned out to be disaster due to it focusing a huge and active population in such a tight configuration of regions, not to mention the insane number of clubs caught up in the purge. It was for all intents and purposes unlivable and everyone left for private islands.

And just like that .. all my daddy dreams have crashed and burnt.

If the only way to get an adult rated linden home is via an additional paid premium I am going to be furious.

Packet loss related weirdness is the number one support issue in the Catznip group, especially prevalent for users with wifi connections and less well served areas. It would be really nice if the viewer had a TCP fall back option for users with unreliable connections. Spending money on a VPN just for SL is not always an option.

Ask the speedlite people .. It's not made by LL.

The bottom line is that every country wants more people, more people, more everything people do and need, more growth. Legal immigration is fundamentally about picking the desirable, which often has more to do with where a person is from & race than anything else. People new to a country will invariably be prepared to work for less to get a start, the solution isn't to prevent then coming, but to establish and enshrine labour protections into law so they aren't automatically the cheaper option. The UK had a "problem" with polish plumbers taking plumbing jobs from brits. The cost of hiring a plumber wasn't lower, just the pay and working conditions for the immigrant who showed up to do the work. Blaming the immigrant is a political scapegoat that appeals to the basest instincts rather than addressing the actual problem that put them in that position. In the UK, the scapegoat worked resulting in brexit, a fundamentally stupid decision for an island nation that depends on imported everything for basic survival. All of the promised benefits of separating from Europe evaporated.

the best advice I can give it to get your script working 100% with readable clean code and then worry about optimization *IF* you need more working memory space (eg for data storage or to save needing a second script). I would avoid the fs preprocessor and highly recommend an external editor like vscode - keep your readable code as a comment, future you will thank you !! inlining / merging small / medium functions and variable reuse are good places to start - you know, all the stuff modern programming practices say you shouldn't do the lsl memory profiling tools will slow your script down, but will save your bacon key compression can be useful if you need to get the keys back later, if you just need to know you have seen a key before use a hash instead If you have lots of text strings, move them to a notecard and use a dataserver event to read specific lines in as and when you need them .. its a pain in the butt, but can mean the difference between something fitting in one script or three. It also makes localization a lot simpler. If you end up messing about with extravagant tree like menu structures .. consider a HUD instead

Apple M1 Mac. Compared to Catznip R13.1 which does not have ANY of the linden performance changes, this viewer is a solid 5 fps faster and generally smoother. Excellent work LL !! Can't wait to get these into Catznip

I have it on secondary test machine .. and hate every second I have to use it. Can't say I love 10 if I'm honest but it does at least work reliably.

Memory is allocated in 512byte chunks - This is the minimum allocation for new functions, event handlers and global variables. So, say you create a few globals, that costs you 512bytes .. add some data to them later, if you don't go over that 512 byte allocation, you you're not using more memory. This is why you should be careful applying modern best practices to LSL scripts. Edit - to add Global variables don't get 512bytes each, the first costs you 512bytes the rest fill up that allocation, till you go over then another 512bytes chunk is allocated.

He's stalled the deal over the claim that Twitter is less than 5% bots. Twitter is easily 30% bots and most "real" people have multiple accounts .. which twitter doesn't count as the same person. Twitter has very poor market penetration, most people don't have an account, don't want an account, and only interact with Twitter when a news organization talks about something someone said on Twitter. This isn't a new revelation, it's how Twitter has always worked and always fudged it's numbers. They recently did a quiet bot purge with some high profile users reporting a loss of up to 100K followers. I'm sure this has nothing to do with the significant fines he's facing and Tesla's stock prices taking a beating, it's almost as though he never really wanted to buy Twitter. He's also getting bad press about the working practices in his employ and openly laments that he can't force 996 on western employees. (996 . 9am - 9pm 6 days a week, his Chinese giga factory is basically a prison, no one leaves)

Nostalgia.

I can't even get Alexa to reliably turn my lights on and off, the Teslabots better just be people in robit suits or we're all doomed.

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