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Just now, Love Zhaoying said:
The AI models can all compare the number of fingers each has for bragging rights.
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17 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said:
I think I might have company at the beach.
It wasn't me! 😆
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22 hours ago, Flea Yatsenko said:
Everyone laughed at Meta and Horizon Worlds because the content was terrible. They couldn't find quality artists for their budget. Now imagine if Meta launched a new virtual world and they could throw millions of dollars at AI model generation. A company like FB could make thousands of models with their money and they could make SL's content amount and quality look not very impressive. Payscale as the average salary of a 3d modeller in the USA is a little under $50k. Kaedim is $50 for 10 credits. 1 credit for a "low poly" which doesn't look game ready, 4 credits for a high poly. If a company like FB wanted a virtual world they could probably do it for much cheaper. $5 per asset is very good, a big company like FB/Meta could make a lot of assets for their virtual world with that price.
You are correct that Meta could do that — but I suspect that AI model generation would make the current performance issues that Second Life has with unoptimised or poorly optimised mesh content look positively minor by comparison.
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23 hours ago, Sid Nagy said:
A well known actor in NL was complaining today on a newspaper website that his voice over job in commercials for a supermarket will be taken over next month by an AI voice.
The better AI gets, the more tasks it will take over.From experience of hearing the output of current AI tools for commercials, they still struggle with conveying emotion or even conversational intonation. Much like text-to-speech, the result can easily slide into the robotic or the Uncanny Valley unless it's manually tweaked or refined. But yes, that is probably the future trajectory. Which sucks, especially for those doing that kind of work.
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Talking about movies reminds me that I started watching "Idiocracy" last year, but had to stop after the first 40 minutes because it was reminding me too much of the state of the world now, never mind in 2050. 🤦♂️
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PBR IS AWESOME!
(Ducks incoming projectiles)
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Not a Peeve, but a Celebration because this topic has reached its 900th page! 🎉 That's a LOT of Peeving! Well done, guys & gals (& others)! 🥳
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Minor Peeve: Having store credit but only being able to use it if there's enough to cover the price of the item you want to purchase — no partial funding allowed.
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45 minutes ago, Sabrina Nebula said:
I don’t know if it’s a pet peeve or frustration, maybe both.
As you guys know I’m a Na’vi. The only places where I maybe meet other Na’vi are 2 roleplay regions. I’m SLT +9, I very rarely meet others like me.
Today I didn’t even want to go anywhere because I’m alone 😭I have human friends, but it’s different when you have someone who has the same Alien race as you do.
Meh 😔
I feel ya. Time zone differences mean that lots of RP areas are empty when I do visit them. And many of those places don't really cater for or seem to want non-humans. This is why I don't do any RP these days.
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I'm tempted to say, based on a sample of the various avatars I see at shopping events, that the majority are either 'freak-show' or 'uncanny valley'. 🤣 Yes, they might pass as 'human' if you squint, but I think that's being generous.
has been proudly non-human since 2017.
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20 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Peeve: Had to finally buy a newer iPad today for remote controlling DAW software..
OTOH: Now I can try the new official Second Life Mobile client on something better than my old iPhone Xs!!! (When it arrives..)
Peeve: the iPhone XS is considered 'old' now.
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22 hours ago, kali Wylder said:
today's peeve: how to access a file from 1998 stored on a 3.5 inch floppy. I don't want to buy a usb 3.5 floppy drive to retrieve one file when it may or may not even be possible to read it on my win10 laptop.
Wow! I've not touched a floppy disk in a long time! Fun fact: there are a few stockpiles of them out there, because some machines still need floppy disks for updates. And when I left my former full-time employer in 2012 they were still doing diskette duplication orders occasionally.
I recall finding some old ZIP disks many years ago, and managing to get hold of both a ZIP drive and the software to retrieve the data I'd backed up to them in the early 2000s. Those were neat, except for the dreaded Click Of Death. 😱
I keep a portable CD/DVD writer around for the occasional music CD that I'll purchase second-hand from time to time, so I can rip them into my music library. (Yes, I still have one of those. Streaming music services are great for convenience, but lousy for actually holding onto stuff you like.)
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14 minutes ago, AmeliaJ08 said:
I wonder how much of that is to do with something I read about AMD's drivers, I think people said that it on Linux their OpenGL driver performs as expected and that the issues were with the Windows driver for some reason. I assume the MacOS driver has a lot more in common with the Linux driver?
From what I can tell, AMD don't appear to have much input (pun intended) into the display driver system on macOS — it's mostly Apple's stuff, so any performance issues are most likely on them.
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11 hours ago, Fraser Lisle said:
That has an Nvidia GPU doesn't it? Or were they AMD at that time?
Edit: some sort of Radeon Pro if Google is correct. I have tested Rx580s etc in SL and yeah they work but performance is poor compared to Nvidia cards of same class and age, its just AMDs slow OpenGL drivers though not the GPU itself.
Correct — Radeon Pro 575 with 4GB of VRAM.
As far as performance on my setup goes, yes it wasn't great until a few years ago when the Linden Lab and Firestorm graphics improvements got released, but since then I've been able to use Advanced Lighting — and now PBR — and still have a usable FPS in even the most graphically intensive places like Second Pride, BURN2 or the various Shop & Hops. I don't run around on Ultra graphics settings all the time, however, and have trimmed my settings to balance appearance and performance as much as possible.
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Peeve: shopping event areas that are not designed with lag in mind. (Won't name names, but it's a lot of them...)
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I'm still on a 2017 iMac 27-inch, but Second Life is very usable on it, with Firestorm, Alchemy Viewer (my current daily driver) and even the latest official viewer. A few years ago, it's true that performance was middling, but the viewers have improved massively since then. 🤷
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Peeve: The display on my 2017 iMac keeps going to max brightness in the evening, despite my turning off 'Auto Brightness' in System Settings. I'm starting to suspect that it's being triggered, ironically, by the Night Shift mode which is supposed to dim the screen outside of daylight hours. Perhaps I'd be better off turning that off and reinstalling good ol' f.lux and using that instead. 🤷♂️
(Suspects this is either Apple software 'quality' at work or an attempt to get this machine to wear out faster so I have to buy another Mac.)
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On 3/18/2024 at 6:46 PM, Aethelwine said:
We have never looked as good since we got rid of powerful facelights
OMG I remember the Facelight 3000! Yeah, that's hella bright! 💡
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16 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:
With 38 allowable attachments I see people with ARC >800,000 and often over 1,000,000... Depending on where you are you see more or fewer of these high ARC people. I am always surprised when I see a nearly nude pole dancer with a massive ARC.
Since my default cut-off point for ARC is 350,000 (and could probably go lower without much impact on most other avatars around me), I suspect I wouldn't even see those folks with ARC pushing 800,000+!
On the odd occasion where I do see someone appear as a Jellydoll, I'll temporarily render them just to see what they might have done to push their ARC that high, then turn that exception off again.
Thankfully, most of my friends dress sensibly so I keep Always Render Friends enabled. 😌
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16 minutes ago, AmeliaJ08 said:
I bought a necklace recently that I didn't realize was from the olden times. Every 5 seconds it would flash with the power of a thousand suns!
Ye Ghod! I remember those from when I first joined Second Life in 2015. An avatar would walk into the club where I worked, and their jewellery would light up most of the room! 💡
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On 3/17/2024 at 7:42 AM, Scylla Rhiadra said:
So, some absolute IDIOT has griefed the gallery hosting the MSF / Doctors without Borders in Ukraine exhibition with spamming particle memes (swastikas, communist flags, etc., the usual 4Chan garbage). I've reported it of course and notified the gallery owner -- I don't have full land perms there so I can't do anything about it myself, although I did track down the jerk who did it.
What kind of an absolute POS would grief an exhibition raising money to help RL victims of war?
I really don't get people sometimes.
I saw notice about that last night — so sorry to hear
I hope those particles get nuked soon, and yes some folks apparently will sink that low to get their jollies.
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On 3/17/2024 at 1:09 AM, Silent Mistwalker said:
I'll see your Charlton Heston and raise you Sean Connery.
I've seen that film — it is totally bonkers, but it has Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling in it. 😋
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On 3/16/2024 at 8:06 PM, Persephone Emerald said:
Peeve: Bad Demos.
No HUD in this one, so no way to see different colors.
Balls attaching in weird places. (I assume the creator expected me to attach the demo to my hand.)
I've come across demos like that, it's a head-scratcher — yes, I'd like to make sure the item fits me, but it would even better if I can find out what version of 'pink' the creator has gone with.
Similarly, non-working HUDs are a tell-tale sign that perhaps this item isn't for me.
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Peeve: Evri (the courier delivery firm formerly known as Hermes) apparently don't bother letting you know when they're going to call to collect a package. Good thing I was in when they did ring the doorbell.
Related Peeve: the tracking page on their website is even more useless than it was the last time I used their services.
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I hope those particles get nuked soon, and yes some folks apparently will sink that low to get their jollies.
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Coming to Accept "Different" people in Second Life
in General Discussion Forum
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First off, happy burpday Love! 🎂
I have a fairly thick skin when it comes to dealing with others online, partly because I've been doing it for a long time, going back to the early 1990s, online services like CompuServe, and the pre-Web Internet including IRC and Usenet. 👴 Most of the folks I've encountered over the years have been pleasant to deal with, and the few exceptions were easy to avoid or block from view. Sadly, politics has always been an area of potential conflict — I started running into people who took against me simply for not sharing their worldview back in the 2000s on Slashdot. 🤷♂️
Social media, and virtual worlds like Second Life, have just multiplied the ways in which people can express and propagate their tribal loyalties (and get in the face of those they perceive as the 'enemy'). 😒 That is one reason why I came off all the major social media platforms completely back in 2019, along with fatigue from trying to keep the flow of the Firehose at a manageable rate. (I've tried Mastodon a few times, but it suffers from the same issue of Too Much Stuff.)
As a rule, I don't block people in Second Life — that is reserved solely for spammers. There are a few people who I no longer deal with in-world, for various reasons around trust, but I simply avoid them rather than block. Thankfully, I rarely encounter anyone who wants to try and rile me up, and I respond by ignoring them and not giving them the attention they crave. I don't judge people on their in-world appearance — as someone who uses their avatar as a canvas, I totally get others using theirs as dress-up dolls, and more power to them. Their chat or their profile will usually tip me off early if they're liable to rub me up the wrong way, so I just sail on by.