[What are you watching today?]

 

[I only play second life.]

I play Unreal Tournament 3 with Whispercrystal’s ASMR videos for the soundtrack.

[What are you watching today?]

 

[Does Second Life plan to create its own cryptocurrency?]

Linden Lab has wasted more than enough resources on dead end projects that are not Second Life.

[Does Second Life plan to create its own cryptocurrency?]

Please no.

[Mac Partitioning]

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[Viewer Performance Improvements]

New version available in case anyone stopped trying it because of the texture mess. That seems fixed now. There's a Mac version too, but that's a mixed bag on the Macs I've tried it on. 

[MacOS viewer Issues]

13 minutes ago, Ardy Lay said:

So, Apple's anonymization service they automatically opt-in Apple users to is breaking stuff?

Apple doesn't automatically opt-in users.

[I said LAG, do you understand what I'm talking about?]

1 hour ago, Marigold Devin said:

Not everyone suffers from the lag if they have computers that run like NASA space craft with a better-than-average gaming-dedicated graphics card, three fans and a cooling system. 

Or if they halfway understand graphics settings.

[Running SL on old hardware (4G RAM upper limit)]

I run SL on a ten year old PC. I've pimped it out with an SSD and 16GB of RAM though. 4GB DDR3 modules don't command much of a premium nowadays, so anything with more than one RAM slot should really have at least 8GB. 

In addition to the 512x512 texture limit, enable texture compression. That really cuts down on VRAM use. Like by half.

For video cards, since prices on almost everything have gone insane, get what you can get I guess. There may still be some good values in OEM cards with no retail versions or Quadros. 

[Being ejected from groups?]

Phase 1: Find people who want to give you money.

Phase 2: Kick them out.

Phase 3: Profit?

[What Works Really Well in SL?]

It's a very good platform for socializing.

[FaceBook is now Meta & creating a Virtual World.]

That’ll sell a bunch of $299 Occulus headsets. 🙄

[Stupid Conversations]

2 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Lyssa, that might be because I went while wearing the Cardboard Boxbot avatar. I managed to run around for about 10 minutes before getting kicked out.

I went earlier with that avatar and wandered around the whole place. Picked up some demo tights to check out. I just went back with a 14 year old account, payment info used, reasonably well put together mesh avatar and got booted almost immediately.

[Stupid Conversations]

5 minutes ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:

There are two newbs there with blank profiles and no payment info, yet they were not booted. 

The one with the boxbot head was me, and I got booted about fifteen seconds after you did.

I wonder if the merchants know how the owner operates this place.

[Stupid Conversations]

19 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I was ejected about 30 seconds after arriving.

Congratulations! 

[New Apple Silicon]

19 minutes ago, RaffaeloMonastir said:

Any support / ideas how I can make FS faster are highly welcome.

HiDPI off, and for water reflections select none, opaque. Mac displays are great and I don't think the performance hit from HiDPI is worth it.

[Stupid Conversations]

17 minutes ago, Lillith Hapmouche said:

Still, why such a fuss? 

[New Apple Silicon]

28 minutes ago, Aishagain said:

So we are to rewrite our access to SL to facilitate 15% of the user-base. 

OpenGL is a dead end, and SL is hamstrung by its reliance on obsolete technology. This isn't just a Mac thing, it's everyone using a reasonably modern computer.

[Stupid Conversations]

4 minutes ago, TrophySpouse said:

Check your PM.

Oh me me me me me me! I wanna go! I wanna go!

[New Apple Silicon]

8 hours ago, Nick0678 said:

Visit a company near you and chances are you will find plenty, most of them swap every 5 years.

And then they either donate the old ones to schools or non-profits, or sell them to a recycler. 

[New Apple Silicon]

3 hours ago, Nick0678 said:

Yeah well.. i wouldn't compare a pc to a Ferrari or a Rolex.. In 5 years a Ferrari is still a Ferrari, a Rolex is still a Rolex but the fancy computer... well usually is in the trash along with an Apple watch,  Iphone etc..

If anyone has unwanted five year old computers they want to dispose of, I'll help with that.

[New Apple Silicon]

41 minutes ago, Graydon said:

Yes, cleared the cache, several times, inducing inventory, and deleted the contents of the Firestorm folder off the computer. Are there caches on the computer from firestorm somewhere else?

The Firestorm caches are located in ~/Library/Caches/Firestorm_x64 and clearing the cache using FS's preferences should empty that folder. Checking to make sure everything is gone might be a good idea.

The other folder in your user library FS uses is ~/Library/Application Support/Firestorm that's where settings and log files live.

The fact that clearing the cache didn't help and FS works in another account suggests a screwed up settings file in your user library.

[What would you do if Linden Lab took away your legs and everything below your waist?]

1 hour ago, Paul Hexem said:

Stay in first person mode as much as possible and you'd never even notice!

Until you see someone else's nightmare fuel avatar.

[What would you do if Linden Lab took away your legs and everything below your waist?]

13 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

You joke, but the VIC-20 has a pretty active development scene.

http://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9974

As do most vintage and retro platforms.

I feel bad now, because I'd rather use any of that than Facebook's trash world.