Lyssa Greymoon

I am thankful that this year I am able to celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional fashion of my people. Sitting at my computer, in my underwear with Corona Light and Chinese takeout arguing with other idiots on the internet.

Chill out, did I say it was your fault? I said that's not how power management settings work. You know what mechanical devices all eventually do? They wear out. It doesn't matter how much you baby your computer, the mechanical components will wear out. Some, like your fan, faster than others. Changing the power setting isn't going to radically change that. They will all run the computer within the manufacturer's specifications. The explanation for your crappy fan crapping out short of its rated MTBF is more likely a manufacturing defect in the fan rather than anything you, Windows or Second Life did to it. When you crank up SL, it's going to use whatever resources it needs, and changing the power settings is not going to let it push the hardware beyond the manufacturer's limits. You can cap CPU performance at less than 100% in the advanced settings you don't see. What you can't do there is exceed 100%.

That feeling when you can’t find the right reaction gif that won’t get you banned.

That's bull*****.

Change the RenderAvatar debug setting to false.

No *****? Why do you think they’re recommending people put masks over their face holes?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html What could the CDC's advice possibly be regarding handwashing and facemasks? I wonder what I could find if I did a PubMed search for something like Covid-19 and masks? Has anyone published such studies? Why yes they have! I wonder what they found? Stop being stupid.

For a web based viewer on a low end PC you're either going to have a poor user experience or pay someone to provide the processing power your computer doesn't have. I'm fairly sure LL has kept an eye on streaming solutions and seen how well they do. Maybe one day SL will end up on nVidia's GeForce Now or Google Stadia. You're probably still gonna have to sign up for at least one service, probably two if that happens.

Uh huh. I'll get to this right after this: See those words under my forum avatar? The computers I run SL on are decidedly not expensive, high end or boutique. Unless your definition of any of those extends to Optiplex bought from thrift store for $20. I don't overclock them and don't recall ever advising anyone else to overclock their computer for SL. I've overclocked some graphics cards, but for very short term evaluation and not for daily use. Power management settings doesn't overclock your computer. Overclocking is a non-issue for most users because most computers are built with processors that can't even be overclocked. The power usage will still be within manufacturer's specifications. Plug your PC into a Kill-a-watt and I think you'll find your PC consumes the same amount of power when running SL regardless of what the power management setting is. No one here treats them as an inside joke. Every time they come up in discussions they are taken seriously and people are warned that they are over a decade out of date precisely so that "chumps" don't get burned. You can rail against imagined arrogant elitism or you can consider maybe someone who isn't you knows what they're talking about.

Did you ever get your PC out of safe mode? Their concern may be understandable.

The problem is so many people here care even less about protecting each other than governments do.

Yep. It's more for people who read this thread and come away thinking they can overclock their PC through power management, and that doing so will burn down their computer. It also gives me another chance to take a shot at the crazy minimum system requirements because they're stupid and wrong. Don't take that list into Best Buy and ask for a computer. They'll all laugh at you.

You can't buy a minimum requirements PC at Best Buy unless your other car is a Tardis. It won't run SL and the whole question on enabling ultimate power mode on it is moot because it won't do that either. A minimum spec PC is closer to graduating high school than getting ready for kindergarten. No modern game will run on that. That's a jalopy. Second Life will work on every PC and Mac Best Buy sells today. It may suck on most of the ones that cost less than about $500 (which, excluding Macs seems to be about the average price of the in stock computers at my local Best Buy), but it will run and the computer will not burn itself out. Modern computers have thermal protection that will throttle the CPU and GPU before that happens. Running the fans at 6,000 RPM may shorten their life, but if the computer is doing that it probably wasn't designed for gaming in the first place and most modern games will stress the hardware just like SL. Being fit for purpose is a thing. If only Linden Lab knew what they were doing as well as a company who thought mailing out 20,000 graphics cards to people who don't know how to use a screwdriver was a good idea they might go somewhere in the virtual world business.

If a jalopy computer is prone to self-destruction from changing power settings you shouldn't be trying to run Second Life on it.

The Mac Mini has a fan, the MacBook Air doesn't. Apple has a history of being optimistic about the thermal performance of some of their computers, notably the 2020 Intel MacBook Air, which has a fan and could really use two.

What I'm concerned about is a half-assed vaccine released under an emergency use authorization. It's not a big deal to me since I'm not in one of the groups that would be anywhere near the first in line for it. By the time it's available for general use I think we'll have a better idea how safe and effective it is. If we aren't up to our ears in dead paramedics next spring, mandatory vaccinations is an idea worth considering. The evidence suggests that leaving public health measures up to individuals has produced sub optimal results.

That’s bull*****.

The kind of idiots who don't realize how monstrously stupid and immoral achieving herd immunity through infecting everyone is. But that's the kind of thing we should expect from a government whose pandemic response is run by a young earth creationist, a bugchaser and a president who checked out months ago.

Leave the Intel graphics on, SL is using your FirePro so having them on should make no difference. In Firestorm go to the graphics settings and in hardware settings enable lossy texture compression and OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects. In the Rendering tab check Restrict maximum texture resolution to 512px.

When I find a dead landmark, about as often as not the place has moved. Either searching for it or checking the owner’s profile usually brings up the new location.

Yeah, those spikes can look pretty bad until you read the scale. Japan's "spike" is about the size of Arkansas's. South Korea's is comparable to New Hampshire's and Vietnam is close to Perry County Ky.

McLovin!