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What is the purpose of life?
Coffee Pancake replied to THEHERO Snowfall's topic in General Discussion Forum
The purpose of life is life. It's entirely circular, self serving and will last as long as it lasts. The meaning of your life .. well that's something you have to work out on your own. -
Anxiety - Depression Advice Please
Coffee Pancake replied to DarkKinGdom's topic in General Discussion Forum
I've struggled with depression and anxiety for many years, there are no easy and quick solutions. The first port of call should always be your Doctor, there are a lot of medications that can help, it will take some trial and error to find the right ones for you. It doesn't have to be a permanent thing and can genuinely help. Anxiety can be particularly debilitating and even prevent you approaching things that will objectively help (such as therapy or going for walks). Take your time. Be congnicent of your state of mind, keep a brief diary of your mood, celebrate the successes (no matter how small). Look after your self and fight for your basic daily routine. It wont always work out and even simple things are accomplishments, even if that thing turned out to be remembering to brush your teeth or take a shower. Even your demons can agree that a trip to the dentist would suck. If you have a friend with depression or anxiety, be patient and persistent. Today might not be the day you do the thing, but there is always tomorrow, and they will appreciate it. Specifically to the OP The road to recovery can be painfully slow and often feels littered with set backs. Things aren't better till they are, and till they are, keep trying as it all adds up. There isn't a single magic bullet, no one thing I've ever tried in isolation has worked. But I am profoundly grateful for the on going support and understanding from friends. The only "one weird trick" I've found that can help is planning. Sometimes making a decision today that wont come into play for weeks can take the edge of doing the thing when it comes around, if only because it's been looming for a while. In my case, I've committed to attending pride this year, my anxiety demon declared a hard no when presented with the possibility, it will come round and we will have a good day. Do not let your depression and anxiety define you, and don't keep the company of anyone who does. -
Linden Lab's new chief marketing officer.
Coffee Pancake replied to animats's topic in General Discussion Forum
Roblox is eating our lunch and has a plan to mature the platform with the userbase whilst still being attractive to kids. It's also functionally far more responsive and not tied to design decisions made 20 years ago for a 3D world to test out haptics technology. You can't laugh at Roblox for having blocky avatars when you're a waldo. -
Oh hell yes! -- Pet Delights!
Coffee Pancake replied to Coffee Pancake's topic in General Discussion Forum
I have suggested it to she who cooks (I'm banned from the kitchen, reasons) .. passing on her thanks for the suggestion, I was just going to slurp them all !!! -
Hey. Linden Lab. May is ALS Awareness Month
Coffee Pancake replied to DiscordicDesire's topic in General Discussion Forum
I would very much like to see @Linden Lab @Strawberry Linden hang a regular ongoing lantern on this. Second Life provides a critically important service to a great many people with a wide rage of disabilities and heath issues. These are the kind of resident profiles we want to see, these are the ones that actually matter. -
Necromancy was so worth this.
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Oh hell yes! -- Pet Delights!
Coffee Pancake replied to Coffee Pancake's topic in General Discussion Forum
I just found an entire box of peach fruit cups hidden behind a pile of inedible protean bars. -
SPAM .. sweet jebus, the SPAM. I've been bombed with floods of green text, notecards, free junk .. because I dared buy one thing once, or visit an entirely unrelated event. I swear these idiots just camp events and log all the avatar key they see so their disposable spam prims can flood later.
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BUT .. You then ague that you should have at least some right by citing a silent majority, appealing to authority and dreaming up solutions to make the problem land owners go away. There is no right of way in Second Life. None at all. If you are on someone else's property, on foot, in the air, exploring or just passing though, your presence is permitted by their grace alone. Or not in the case of security orbs. I would like to see a more robust systemic overhaul of parcel privacy that would make orbs cumbersome and redundant, but as that would only further impede your ability to "explore" I doubt this thread is the place to bring that up.
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*cracks the whip with a devilish smirk* Oh wait .. you were talking about something else, my bad !
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It's harder than you might think .. We went looking for an easy way to only render items on the current parcel, but the viewer has no concept of parcels, just the values for the one you're on. Further testing kinda underscored that it wouldn't result in a meaningful performance improvement for most people (and certainly not as pronounced as just opting to only render avatars on the current parcel). One more bright idea on the scrap pile 😆
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I think at this point animated particles alone would be too little too late. We need nothing short of a whole new modern particle system.
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My desire to have a weasel going ape thought my house trying to catch a wasp is on a par with the wasp.
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Pride Month -- Got An Email From SL
Coffee Pancake replied to Luna Bliss's topic in General Discussion Forum
If only we had an LGBTQ+ sub forum where derailing threads by trolls wishing debating the right of LGBTQ+ people to exist in society wasn't permitted. -
We would be screaming and running around in circles if there was ..
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Macbook Air M1 does not and will never support bootcamp, that requires an intel x86 chip. You can run parallels, but probably want a machine with 16GB ram for that and I've not found the need. It's not as important as it has been with other Macs I've had, everything I've needed to run (inc games) has come with a Mac port and most stuff has been updated to run on M1 natively at this point (well .. except for SL, but that's a whole different can of wurms). Yeah .. The Macbook Pro line comes with MUCH bigger screens .. and price too. I was used to big 16-17" laptops previously and my budget didn't stretch to a 16" Macbook. If I'm home with it at a desk, I do plug the Air into a dock / dongle and a second big monitor, but being honest .. the screen on the Macbook is really good and the big screen tends to just get iused to dump stuff on, and I've not found it to be an issue when out and about. I would certainly say go poke one in person before buying (that goes for any laptop really).
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*squints at monitor* .. is that a dead pixel? No way .. pokes it .. pokes it some more .. nope, it's marinara sauce. HOW THE ACTUAL DID I .. you know never-mind.
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There is a bit of a learning curve coming from Windows, but nothing like the curve going to Linux (although there is a full fat Unix under the hood if you ever wanted to go there). It's all minor idiosyncrasies and a few touch pad gestures. There are a few little "oh right, its a mac, how do I ... " moments but no show stoppers. I suggested a Macbook Air M1 as you wanted a laptop first that could also SL, and that part of the experience is hands down awesome. Depending on use I can go days without recharging it and it's not let me down once, the build quality is rock solid, and performance is surprisingly good. Even played some WoW & other games without even blinking. Just don't be tempted to pump in the extra cash for a pro unless you're getting a much bigger machine, the low end pro and the air are 99% same under the hood. 8Gb ram is fine (really) and while I might like 16 more, In practice I've not found I needed it. There is the option of a bigger SSD and I did go for that .. but only because I was impatient and that was all they had (this is also why mine is GOLD .. it's stupidly ostentatious, which just makes me happy). USB-C / Thunderbolt dongles is part of the experience and while I have a few for various things, they tend to stay at home (main one being a dock that gives me an extra screen, wired network and a lot of USB ports). Apples magic mouse is horrible coming from a PC, just grab a BT one if you must, I've only needed for gaming and don't tend to bother otherwise. Another huge plus is there is no fan at all. It's completely silent which makes it great for audio stuff and poking things in the middle of the night while my partner sleeps. It's also 2.8 lbs. I am never lugging a beastly laptop that gets 2 hours off the mains and weights as much as a baby ever again.
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Macbook Air M1. No contest. It runs SL fine, especially the new LL performance viewer. It's light and slim, stupid fast for everything else you will do on a laptop, the screen is beautiful, it will even run iOS applications, and the battery just keeps on going and going. Charge it over night and leave the charger at home. It's by far the best laptop experience I have ever had and I've owned and own a LOT of laptops (like a >2ft pile if I stack them up). I would not recommend a Linux laptop. They can be a fun project if you like tinkering, but they're high maintenance, you're locked in a world of poor hardware support, shockingly bad battery life and there are no linux killer apps .. and lots of tinkering and hacking about should you want to run software that lacks a native linux port. The only advantage is that when passing though customs, should they want to poke about and rummage though your device .. they will give up confused.