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If you wanted to do that, off lease office PCs are dirt cheap and there are people who do mass resale of them on eBay. Big sellers, reputable, lots of options. example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Quad-Core-i5-Optiplex-7010-Desktop-Computer-PC-Gaming-Workstation-Windows/223634951430?hash=item3411ae8d06:m:mshPKc0hjYf8y_5J3oPTkrQ Its an optiplex 7010, 3rd gen Intel i5 so definitely a bit old but still adequate, especially for a game like SL. And has options for drives, ram and OS choice, as well as a modern gpu option they install for you. So configured like this: 16gb of ram, a 120gb SSD with Windows 10 installed, and a 1tb hard drive for mass storage, as well as an AMD RX 560. 390$ is definitely a bit more expensive than buying the parts individually to retrofit your own barebones original optiplex 7010 but they have a margin to make and that’s how they profit. This plus a monitor, keyboard and mouse would make for a cheap system to run. As mentioned though you could also just get a basic 7010, and put in your own choice of video card (provided it’s low power) and add more ram or choose your drives and install the os yourself. Which might be a bit cheaper if you were to deal hunt.

The system requirements page is super out of date and not recommended to be used to choose a system. As mentioned, ATI doesn’t exist anymore. They made video cards and were purchased by AMD ages ago. 945gm is an on-motherboard Intel video chip from 2006. Its not relevant. AMD makes processors and video cards. Nvidia makes video cards. Intel makes processors. Intel and AMD have integrated graphics built into their processors. Intel HD 620/630 for example is intels current gen integrated video. AMD doesn’t have integrated video in every processor but instead makes APUs which are a cpu with integrated video features, speaking in context of modern hardware only they are a lot more powerful than an equivalent Intel integrated graphics option. Pick up the option with the RX 550 as it’s substantially better graphically than either the integrated Intel HD 630 or just the Ryzen 3 2200g option on its own. Even if you’re stepping down to an i3 instead of an i5. Worst case that can be upgraded fairly easily down the line. Though I think there’s a pavilion option with the Ryzen 5 2600 or Ryzen 3 1200 or 2200g that has an RX 550. That would be the ideal choice in this price range.

As far as I have been able to google myself into this, SL uses its own LSL color which is just redefined RGB. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_Color And from what I can tell it’s just another RGB format and no different in its color capabilities than standard sRGB

It’s not advertising being the all in one model so the only other option is the mini tower. Micro atx, fairly normal. With that config it’s a variant of the Pavilion 590. It’s super proprietary inside with its special psu and motherboard but it’s still equipped with a PCIe x16 slot and room for a fairly large gpu. Of course the problem would be the psu. These are stock equipped the same but there’s an i5 model with a 1050ti and the AMD model offers an RX 550 (pic related). They all use the same psu so a slot power 75w card like a 1050ti would be reasonable. However it would be expensive to buy one without a gpu and then just add a gpu, even used, when you could build an overall better system from the ground up for substantially cheaper. Building it yourself or paying your local nerd 50 bucks to put it together for you.

SL will use either or. It’s an ancient myth that SL doesn’t like AMD cards. Note the people who mention that also use the name “ATI” which was bought out by AMD 13 years ago... The pavilion is a good choice if you want something new and simple. But mainly just because it’s a prebuilt and will do what you want out of the box. On a purely specs basis there are a few points to mention: -The i5 8400 is now a generation out of date, Intel is on 9th gen, there’s an i5 9400. And 10th gen is rolling out soon. -Intel vs AMD processors right now is kind of weak, for the price of an i5 8400 you could get an AMD Ryzen 3600 which is also a 6 core but entirely outclasses the i5 8400 In fact, if you can, filter those pavilions by Ryzen. There’s a lot of them out there, pavilion gaming machines, Dell Inspirons are the same thing, right now Intel is severely behind and AMD is plain and simple superior on the market and they are the better choice. No fangirling, there’s data to back that up. -12gb of ram means single channel or very low speed memory, ram doesn’t come in 6gb sticks, ddr4 comes in a minimum of a 4gb dimm. So they either have three 4gb sticks or one 4 and one 8. The way memory controllers work would limit that kind of configuration at minimum speed (2133mhz) or single channel. Both of those are bad and it’s a point where quantity is not valuable. Ram speed is actually starting to matter these days. -HD 630 isn’t bad but it’s just about “adequate” for SL, more graphically intensive spaces will tank your framerate. ALM and all those fancy settings will be pretty much exclusively for sub 1fps photos if you’re anywhere other than a social island. -These home prebuilts have extremely low end and weak power supplies that greatly limit future Upgrades. If you have a budget in mind I can help find an ideal system. These basic pavilions aren’t bad machines by any means but they’re not the best choice if you know how to deal hunt. Something like a current gen Ryzen Inspiron + some kind of entry level video card would be great and probably not much more expensive.

If I’m not wearing pants or shorts, instead wearing a skirt or dress or something, I usually use my furry card to get away with no underwear. Nothing to see but a beige abyss.

I think it just depends on what circles you’re in. Comventional rock and sub genres related to it are pretty backburnered. It’s a good time for hiphop and rap, alternative rock and top 100 pop kinda music. It can be kind of hard to pin down what music is and isn’t relevant and popular, just remember europop and you’ll realize there is definitely a hard ending point for some music genres. That also ended about the time clear plastic electronics, round cars and UV reactive computers went out of style.

Don’t mind me, just posting cat pictures. i cannot bring myself to have virtual cats because I get sentimental over them, got 10 year banned on Habbo and the most concerning part was my virtual cat Steve-o who is now on his own in my house until 2026. I had that virtual cat since 2004.

Pre social media sites taking over, in the late 90’s and early 2000’s companies like AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo all had messengers. Respectively AIM, MSN and Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo was the last of them to really centralize their internet experience. Everything was yahoo, your news was yahoo, your mail was yahoo, your games were yahoo and your chat was yahoo. You talked to other people on yahoo. Kinda like a little yahoo cult. So yahoo for a long time still had chat rooms. Selectable from a public list of a bunch of different topics where anyone could go talk. As compared to adding your friends on AIM and talking to them, or searching out user hosted AOL chat rooms, yahoo had these premade chat rooms on a variety of topics for you to use. They were super popular, with some of the more popular topics having a dozen or more chat rooms with the largest having 100 user slots, usually filled. But when yahoo decentralized and people started using early social media and breaking off to other email providers and basically just using other parts of the internet instead of just yahoo like a bunch of weirdos, the chat rooms slowly died. And everyone went everywhere. SL being a similar social experience in concept and other games like Habbo Hotel took a lot of those people who left the yahoo, Microsoft or AOL ecosystems. And I say 30 to 50 year old women because that’s who was most interested in this kind of stuff, stay at home moms and teenage girls. Who are now empty nesters and new stay at home moms. Mostly, of course this is an exaggeration, generalization and simplification, but it’s a key part of internet culture at that time. Anyway, so THAT is why SL today has this surprisingly large population of middle aged women. It’s a social experience they know well and enjoy. In the same sense that today’s youngins enjoy the likes of Instagram and Twitter as their social outlet of choice.

On the topic of self driving cars, id like to note such an ethical dilemma wouldn’t realistically come around that way. Self driving cars right now kinda suck, they’re learning. But even if they were great we cannot have them on the road. Our roads are terrible, among other issues, but people are the biggest problem with any self driving vehicles. You can’t have other cars on the road that don’t communicate with eachother like the self driving cars do. You’ll just have the same traffic as now but people will be asleep more often. Until the only cars are self driving or there are dedicated self driving only expressways and districts, you won’t see any self driving cars on the road commercially. So in this future where such a thing should occur, kill the cars own passenger or potentially injure a passerby (which is a simple answer anyway, the passenger, always.) would be such a rare issue to ever come across in a world of just self driving cars that it wouldn’t be accounted for. What reason would the computer have to know what to do if someone randomly drove a non self driving car on the wrong side of the road? If there are no non self driving cars it’s not a concern. As for the answer though, think of it from a legal sense. The driver of a self driving car is letting a computer take over. The computer is not it’s own entity, it’s owned by a company or maybe even the driver. Meaning it’s their legal responsibility. If the choice is to let the cars passenger or passengers die or involve an unrelated party, it’s going to avoid the unrelated party. Even just the tiniest chance to harm the uninvolved party would be more risky fiscally than just taking the metaphorical L. Outcome A is a driver was killed in an accident because of some dude driving the wrong way. Option B is potentially a person on the sidewalk or road being killed by a self driving car deciding to risk killing them to save their passenger. Thats letting a computer put value on a human life, even if just risk. And subsequently the company or cars owner putting the value of their customer or own life over the value of others. Oh, semi related, pun. Self driving cars have the same issues as self driving truck technology. There’s a lot more to driving a truck than basically cruise control + steering. Driving a car is a more complicated matter than our current technology can handle on a reasonable scale. Remember, self driving cars don’t work unless they are the only cars. So how do you train a self driving car to manage the finer points of driving? Gas stations under construction, fresh paved roads with no signage or lines yet, avoidance situations that involve not being on the road?

Oh, my bad, let me just detach my *****.

Side topic, in the next decade or two there will likely be discussion on ethics with robots and artificial intelligence to give future man made creations rights of their own. And that’s 50/50 the coolest thing ever and also a bit concerning on a social level. Because there are always going to be a lot of people who see anything not alive as simply an object. We’re getting very close to the point where AI is no longer a toy, no longer just lines of code and basic question-answer communication. So I guess if we hit the point where AI was distinctly “individual”, and for some reason they played SL, you’d have to become normalized to them.

Consider that SecondLifes userbase fits like 3 categories. - Clueless teenagers who can’t run VRchat or are really into casual e-dating - 30 to 50 year old women who came here after yahoo chat rooms died - early 2000’s internet culture types, weebs, oldschool furries and video game nerds So your genres of music people like are mainly boomer rock and early 2000’s house and edm. Because the clueless noobs don’t really go to places with music because it’s just not something that subculture does. Theres bound to be a few places with a hip hop atmosphere you enjoy but it’s gonna take a bit of digging through the mountain of classic rock and people who never left the rave scene circa 2001.

Doesn’t mean it’s not toasty, it might still be super hot and just not cooling itself properly. Memory usage != heat output. Your ram runs at something like half a watt of electricity consumption when under full read/write load. Your cpu/APU however may be getting hot or if it’s not hot, it’s having some kind of power issue. Netflix, video streaming, it’s very cpu intensive and on most average tier mobile hardware it will use all the resources it can to decode and cache video for playback. This is especially true for streamed video rather than locally stored video, which uses different network friendly encoding and as such, more intensive decoding. Speccy, CPU-z or coretemp as mentioned. Coretemp will put a little temperature monitor in your notifications tray which is useful for seeing it in games like SL which reduce their framerate when not the active window, so you’ll see temps with everything being fully used. Speccy will give you a graph over time however. CPU-z will give you a lot more details on other aspects of your processor. And don’t concern yourself with memory on these types of things, Speccy is the most ram intensive of the three and uses like 20mb of ram or something. If it’s not heat it could still be a power issue. Most often when a program causes a hard crash and restart like that it’s a hardware fault and not software. Software messing up will leave the machine on, it’ll crash out the program or give you an OS error. But forcing the machine off or restarting is something higher than OS level control on the machine telling it to stop. If this system is getting toasty it can do that, if it’s not getting enough power (and there are a lot of ways that can happen) it can do that, if you had some random piece of hardware fail on some level it can do that.

Is it overheating? That sounds like you’re hitting a temperature or power limit and it’s shutting down. Use something like CPU-Z or coretemp to monitor your temperatures when you’re using it. As for the ram, you have one slot in the laptop, and it has that 4gb stick in there. It supports a maximum of 8gb of ram so you will need a single 8gb stick of compatible ram. It uses 1600mhz DDR3 low voltage memory. 1.35v and optimally cas latency 11. Itll be called a PC3-12800, DDR3L-1600 sodimm theyre cheap on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/A-Tech-8GB-PC3-12800-Laptop-SODIMM-DDR3-1600-MHz-204pin-Memory-RAM-PC3L-8G-DDR3L/221892835703?epid=1447226570&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item33a9d7f977:g:PJYAAOSwTdxc-Vxv

Context clues, laptop with a Ryzen 5 quadcore. Keyword laptop: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_5#Mobile_2 Its a ryzen 5 3500U or Pro, or 3550H, or the Ryzen 5 2500/2600 U/H series. All of them come with Vega 8 igp, though the third gen stuff is a bit faster, it’s a very small change and not worth noting. Most of the options for mobile ryzen APUs are integrated only, with a few using entry level Polaris mobile gpus such as the mobile 560x. If it has 12gb of ram that’s an indicator it’s a consumer tier laptop, meaning one half of the memory is soldered, usually the 4gb with a slotted 8gb stick in there. With the context of Ryzen 5 quadcore laptop with 12gb of ram you can pretty safely assume they’re talking about a consumer level non gaming laptop with a 2nd or 3rd gen Ryzen apu, all of which perform similarly, and they’re probably on igp only. So to answer OPs question, yes. You shouldn’t have any problems with performance with a system like that, it’s not super high end but those mobile apus are a lot more powerful than previous generations of integrated graphics. SL will play fine and dandy on a current gen APU like that.

Oh yeah, had an idle animation for rummaging through a purse filled with receipts to Tiffany’s and Sephora, always sat right over left leg, and made sure to constantly adjust all three positional axis of a hair clip that never sat right. /s I get what you mean but consider that SL gives you an accurate representation of absolutely nothing related to IRL. Its all about how you socially handle yourself.

Abased layabout, ornery nihilistic emotions. KOOKY edit: when I write things out like that, turning the word alone into some kind of edgy high school poetic line, I am reminded of two things -“wow, I guess English class wasn’t a waste of time after all, maybe I’m not a brainlet” and -“wow, that’s literally the most emo teenager MySpace profile description I’ve ever seen”

The elegant elephant toots harmoniously. PLEAT

It can sometimes take a long time, SL just had a few sever issues yesterday and it’s not unreasonable to presume there’s gonna be a bit of lag involved with profiles. Give it a day, see if it goes through. It’s happened to many users here before.

Well that already happened and it killed several games. Mobile took over and people stopped using PCs for social games. Favoring social media integrated games instead, see zynga Facebook games as an example. You can chat with friends on SL in a game or you can play FarmVille on your phone and chat with Facebook friends. Over time people preferred the mobile social experience even when the social media games died too. Within the last few years Habbo lost a bunch of users, smallworlds lost so many they died, club penguin lost a bunch of users and closed.. Want to know who didn’t lose a bunch of users? Roblox and RuneScape. What do they have in common? Mobile apps. Roblox in particular grew so unbelievably massive that people sometimes don’t believe it, they have 10-15m users online at any given time and 120m-ish active accounts, 1 billion registered though many are presumed dead accounts or bots. They also have an Xbox version. If SL had a viable free mobile app it would surge in popularity, people want these social games. But they want them on their phone and tablet. And SL sadly isn’t designed for that, it would have to be entirely rebuilt for mobile devices and consoles. It could maybe be done on PlayStation, the hardware is specialized and the viewer for it would have to be specialized, but the game would also have to change a lot. People wouldn’t want a cursor based console experience, UI and movement would have to be designed around the controller. Fine detail would be thrown out the window for character customization because the current way it works is barely keyboard and mouse friendly let alone analog controller friendly. The hardware is there if the game were better optimized, when I say it’s two Athlon 5350’s stuck together that’s literally what it is, and that will play SL, it’s just a matter of actually being able to use that hardware the way console games do. If linden labs wanted this game to be multiplatform and get that social audience that is there and wants a game like SL, it would be grid wipe and rebuild time. The current structure of SL, the UI, the engine, the world itself doesn’t work for platforms other than PC. HOWEVER SL didn’t die when many other games did. Like Habbo the userbase was there to sustain it. Smallworlds died because it’s daily active users peaked at like 6-8K users. That dropped to 500-1k and then the game couldn’t sustain itself. SL lost a lot of users over the same period of time but there’s still a relatively massive player base here who ain’t going anywhere.

It is quite literally two Athlon 5350 APUs stuck together. Which isn’t anything bad but it’s completely BTFO by even the entry level Ryzen 3 2200G today, both in cpu and gpu performance. The ps4 is definitely an impressive “pc-like” console but don’t be expecting any miracles. Also necrobump, why.

We all know the real competition, the best social avatar game, was the Sims Online. I think the author may have liked that better.

I don’t really have much to add to this other than that my irl spouse is scarily good at playing a woman on here. Unless you got them going full nerd about something you would never know. To quote something I will not link or fully explain; ”He played the role of a girl better than most girls I knew.” I try to play mostly androgynous, I like both my male and female avatars and with both I tend to pick pretty much the same universal outfits. With my most favorite though it does tend to look like a tomboy at best. I can disguise as a guy pretty well but I don’t do that often intentionally. I don’t think gender is a really important thing in SL, this is a social sandbox, do whatever you want. For the same reasons I really don’t like to tie who I am irl into virtual worlds outside of my hobbies at best, I don’t think anyone should consider a person irl when “evaluating” them ingame.