[Are you scared? : (]

China locked down Wuhan on January 24th. The WHO declared it "a public health emergency of international concern" on the 30th. Donald Trump spent the next month golfing, holding campaign rallies and telling everyone that everything was fine, it was a Democratic hoax and cornonavirus would miraculously disappear. But China and the WHO are the bad guys. 🙄

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[What are some of your pet peeves?]

I love to hear people pronounce "aluminum" with five syllables.

"al-oo-min-ee-um"

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[Does anyone have advice for running SL on an old crappy laptop?]

Don't bottom out your graphics settings, that can make things worse. I like running Firestorm because it's easy to configure for potato computers, and I think it's probably still the most popular viewer. So I'll use it for screen shots.

The first thing I do with an old laptop is ditch the mechanical hard drive for an SSD. If you're not comfortable messing around inside a laptop or don't want to throw more money at it, you don't need to, but this really helps any computer.

In graphics settings I'll highlight the important settings:

Set draw distance to your taste. I find between 88 and 128 is usually pretty good.

Run the texture memory buffer as high as it will go, if that's less than 1024MB, check enable lossy texture compression too.

Finally:

If you use the Linden viewer, the settings are basically the same, just not in the same place (click the "Advanced" button in graphics preferences to find them). You're limited to 512MB of texture memory (because it's still 2009 I guess) and you have to use debug settings to access a few of the options (like streamed VBOs).

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[What are some of your pet peeves?]

54 minutes ago, kiramanell said:

 

Is it?! I went to sim once, where women pretended to be men, belching, burping, being excessively loud, heavily drinking, etc. It was hilarious. 🤩 Those signs were rather obvious, of course. But what would make it easier for a women to truly pretend to be a man? (And I'm not counting the use of blatently obvious pickup lines like "I know this sounds ike a pickup line, but I really just want to get to know you as person." Or ostentatiously talking about sports). I think it would be kinda hard to pull off, actually.

Just put on the "Greg" library avatar and don't try to overthink it. That'll get you about 90% there. The other 10% is to act like you don't care if your freebie socket wrench matches the rest of your avatar and not to overact like the characters in the aforementioned sim did.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

48 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

A couple of the men are actually women too.  It's just harder to recognize them.  They are better at disguises.

The disguise is a lot easier, too.

[Multiple monitors?]

1 hour ago, Alwin Alcott said:

Perhaps you took the old april 1st vid from Firestorm i pasted in a post tuesday a bit to serious.

The prank they insist wasn't a prank? What's the deal, was it real or does someone on the Firestorm team need to be hit in the head with a shovel for trying to make April Fools a multi-day event?

[Racism in player profiles]

If the best way someone can think of to express pride in their heritage is to post the lyrics from their favorite Nazi song, yeah, okay. You might be an ***** if...

I don't see how there's any question about deleting anything I'd have bought from them. Most of the stuff in SL only costs a few cents anyway. Throw it away and buy one that wasn't made by a Nazi. Or at least put it in a folder labeled "Things I can never use again but it hurts so much to throw anything away".

You know why IBM and VW are terrible analogies to Nazi guy from the OP? Because they aren't celebrating Nazis now. VWs don't play the Horst Wessel Song when you turn the key (at least I don't think they do, I drive a Hyundai) and IBM took the SS off their customer success stories web page like eighty years ago.

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[Racism in player profiles]

56 minutes ago, Dano Seale said:

I'll try. Hmmm, ok....As a "white" truck driver on timed deliveries, if I get stopped on the "freeway" by a bunch of sat down BLM protestors, I'd be out of my truck dragging them off the road by the ears!

Try a Xanax and ASMR instead.

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8 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:

The men that wrote the US Bill of Rights were incredibly brilliant people- the rights they enumerated each serve an incredibly important purpose to this day. I point at the current US President as a great example of the need for freedom of speech. Imagine if we didn't have it, with that guy in charge.

The big downside being in this bizarro world there are so many people so stupid they’ll believe anything.

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

14 minutes ago, Dano Seale said:

"Coronavirus deaths in US top 100,000"

...and yet, your President is blackmailing the Governor of NC by threatening to move the Republican annual conference elsewhere if he doesn't agree to allow 100,000 people to attend. The mind boggles sometimes!

I have a hard time seeing the downside of stuffing 100,000 Republicans into an enclosed arena right now.

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

10 minutes ago, Tolya Ugajin said:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

I took their table about 1/2 way down and applied a weighted average for workforce demographics (the average retirement age in the US is 62, to I took 1/5 of the 60-69 age group).  Somewhat crude, but google doesn't cooperate when asked for just working age adults.  I have seen no data from any source that would indicate a higher percentage.

I do not understand this methodology. Is it for all persons or just working age adults? According to JHU, the case-fatality rate in the US for all persons is almost 6%.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

17 minutes ago, Tolya Ugajin said:

Lethality rate for all persons (including those with underlying health conditions) for Covid is under 0.5%.

Where does that number come from?

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

16 minutes ago, CaerolleClaudel said:

Do you have a Fry's? They have a lot of this kind of stuff. I don't know if they have individual electronic components like I think Radio Shack did, but they have a lot of parts.

No. The only places I can find audio connectors locally anymore are music stores and it seems like they carry everything except 1/8" TRS plugs.

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

The easy answer was, have a functioning public heath system that is able to quickly and effectively track cases and isolate infected people before they can spread it all over the place. That opportunity passed three months ago when our valiant leaders decided the best course of action would be to pretend nothing was wrong and it would all go away in a few days. Then our leaders were Mayor Vaughn from Jaws. Now they're Captain Tupelov from The Hunt for Red October disabling the safeties on his torpedoes.

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

9 hours ago, Mollymews said:

this is the issue yes

is easy to say let everyone else go back to what they were doing and put safeguards for the elderly.  What does safeguard actually mean in practice

In a country with a third world health care system and a significant percentage of the population who think asking them to wear a damn mask into Trader Joe’s is tantamount to marching them into the gas chambers, it’s basically;

 

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

Earbuds that always break the same way, a frayed wire right at the connector. So I could cut it off and soldier another connector on, but Radio Shack went out of business and no one else in town has them so I go to order them online and I can get them at B&H but I can get free shipping if I just spend $49 so I spend an hour looking around and trying to justify $40 of extra crap I don't need then just emptying my cart and staring at the pile of broken earbuds on my desk in despair.

[Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?]

11 minutes ago, Evah Baxton said:

If things were to get really bad, do you think people would still need to be told to stay away from other people?

The "you're not the boss of me" militia probably would, but they aren't going to listen anyway.

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[How do you feel about religious humor in Second Life?]

4 minutes ago, LexxiXhan said:

I always knew, deep down, that Jesus loved lesbians. He had me worried for a while there though, cheeky bugger.

A first century Jewish theologian would totally be down with lesbians. Sounds legit.

[How do you feel about religious humor in Second Life?]

7 minutes ago, Gatogateau said:

You know that you could literally be going around in circles like this in an endless loop? On both the religion stuff and the never ending editing of posts? Right? Just checking.

Yes. She asked me if I could back up what I said, then edited her post to do exactly that. I think I’m being trolled.