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It’s because Arrandale GMA5700 (and also sandy bridge) igpus don’t have full windows 10 drivers, they have a somewhat functional compatibility driver for windows 10. You’d be compatible with either Linux or running windows 7 (or I think 8/8.1 might have driver support for it?) and the full fledged drivers for your igpu.
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Hold back SL from what?
Nobody plays this. SL is in its own little bubble, people who are going to play SL will play SL, people who won’t, won’t.
There are 10 times more people playing a single big name game on Roblox on off hours, than there are playing across all of SL at peak hours. Consider that scale. Look at this
That’s the current most populated game on the platform. That is 760,000 people playing. And that is one game, the second one is at 710k as well and scales downward. And that’s just front page titles, there’s an endless list of smaller games that get a consistent few hundred or few thousand users. The platform as a whole is usually hovering around 10-12 million active users at any time.
SL is not that. And it will not be that. That’s not what it’s trying to be. There is no large scale growth to consider, because in the grand scheme of social world experiences as a whole, SL is a small microcosm of its own creation. SL should be doing stuff that’s good for what’s here.
Removing adult content isn’t going to suddenly make SL competitive with Roblox, or really any virtual world platform. They all do their own thing and have audiences related to their strengths.
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1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Subsequently, I'm not surprised there are "aircraft avatars" in Second Life.
there’s actually an airplane avatar as one of the SL library avatars from id guess over a decade ago if not older. I remember way back when I first played this that I used it as it was an option for a starter avatar in a guide or something?
I don’t see too many people with machine or vehicle avatars but I know they’re out there, I’ve seen the rare occurrence, or the aforementioned person I know who plays as an entire F16. You know how hard it is to maintain a conversation circle with several people when one of them chooses to show up as an actual 50 foot long aircraft?
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2 minutes ago, Chery Amore said:
I might kind of add and don't be a belligerent, know it all, smart a** , insult thrower to them at every opportunity.. especially when under investigation yourself. Not that I think they lean this way, no way of knowing. I do know I've worked for companies that have a hard internal line about abuse of an employee.. including verbal. With TOS they basically say they can cut you off when they want for any reason. Go down near the bottom and read about termination and user conduct.
Linden Lab may suspend or terminate your Account at any time for any reason
This is an important one. I’m under an NDA for finite details on this but I used to do some social moderation for a social platform. And a lot of times when people were presented inquiry on some issue, or were given some kind of disciplinary action or even a ban on some matter, they would try and dig out parts of the rules or TOS to counteract our call.
Lines like that one are backups to any gray area issue. Just because you didn’t technically break the rules doesn’t mean you didn’t do something undesirable for the platform. And that includes all kinds of stuff.
There was an issue with market manipulation on the platform for example where multiple virtual shops were colluding to manipulate the prices of virtual items. Price fixing. We didn’t have a rule against it, the TOS for the game didn’t say anything about it, the TOS and rules for ingame markets didn’t specify anything about price fixing or shared price guides or anything like that. But it got bad, and a few users got bans and the items got deleted, and a bunch of people were notably seriously annoyed by this and tried to argue that we were abusing their rights as paying users of the platform for unjustly deleting items they payed irl money for. Some threatened to sue…
Completely forgetting the whole line like that, anything we determine is harmful to the platform may result in termination or other action for any reason at any time, with or without any explanation.
LL can do the same, and should use it, and does use it, and will use it. Someone is going to argue their specific avatar despite presenting underage is actually an adult and is actually exempt for some reason because it’s not outlined in the rules, and they will be banned anyway because LL says so.
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1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I'm thinking more about basic examples like, 4-legged dogs or cats.
They are not "18" for roleplay purposes (unless that's what you have to say, screw immersion!), but they can say they are "adult" (presenting as 18+).
I feel like that’s a little more cut and dry, quadrupedal avatars in general. Adult presenting in the case of something with a non human lifespan isn’t always 18. However that still does bring other stuff into question if it’s broken down to human or non human age ranges. I would still consider conventional furry avatars to be following human age ranges. Quadruped animals, definitely not unless you just say your avatar is 18, I feel like saying they’re adult is good enough. But then that’s like, do vampires follow human age ranges? Thats a more human avatar anyway so they’d be held to being adult presenting as a requirement even if an adult presenting vampire is canonically 110 years old or something, 18 wouldn’t cut it.
how does one determine the presenting age of an aircraft, for the one person I know who’s avatar is just a whole, irl to scale F16?
5 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:Yep, but those rely on clothing makers to create for their specific mesh, so options are very limited. Like the Snokra. Very cute and I'd wear it in a heartbeat, but it'd be a pain to dress
I use a DSD avatar and usually you can find stuff that’s just close enough that it works. Even if they’re on their own size and no clothing on paper is meant to fit them (except for a few items from apricot paws they don’t sell anymore), working with alpha cuts and modifying your shape you can get plenty of stuff to work.
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The furry avatar clothing thing is just ancient furry culture that fur is coverage so clothing is optional. You’ll still see it in a lot of different character styles and it’s fairly common enough on SL to where nobody really questions it.
As far as how that relates to underage avatars? There’s an almost nonexistent population of people presenting underage furry avatars to begin with that either it would be subject to individual judgements or you’d just require it anyway, and if it’s determined to be one way or the other, then so be it.
I know there’s this population of people on here who do some kind of family roleplay thing, and people who like crafting different themed avatars, and underage avatars for their circles are a lot more common. But within the furry community, lol no. 99% of the places you’d go in furry circles if you showed up with an avatar that’s notably underage, you’d to be tossed right back out the door seconds later. Even if it’s not inherently sexual, there’s too much peripheral sexuality to even take chances. Nobody wants to deal with that, modesty layers or otherwise.
Im down for the harsher and more umbrella approach, and if special circumstances are caught in the crossfire then honestly, sucks to be them. Like oh what about the 2 people in this game who are playing as a bipedal wolf puppy? Better put some pants on or age up your avatar is what it sounds like?
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Mentioning that s30 from 2001 and my current thinkpad, an X1 nano gen 1, 20 years between them.
High quality, high end things are made to last. I recommend proper business hardware and mobile workstations for this purpose.
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32 minutes ago, Rick Nightingale said:
Progress, huh?
I think the biggest draw to old versions of windows it that it does what you tell it to do.
Any windows 10 or 11 user, try to turn off your windows updates, or windows defender. Its not just a setting to toggle on and off, its a whole huge ordeal to get that to take place. You have to get into the GPE and the registry to get either of those things to turn off, and windows is designed after a specific set of updates to turn those things back on automatically even if you turn them off that way. Like if you dig through the GPE and your registry and you manage to get windows 10 to stop looking for updates, stop downloading updates, never install updates, dont even connect to the microsoft update servers, after you reboot its going to turn it all back on and download updates again.
With windows 7 you click a box that says "never check for updates" and it doesnt care, it just doesnt check for updates anymore, ever again.
Its a respect thing, new windows doesnt respect the user. Old windows does whatever you tell it to. So for people who have used windows from 7, vista, xp, 2000, etc, its annoying as all hell to have the system suddenly try and take control.
Even 8 and 8.1 are preferable to me over windows 10, and its what i run on an alder lake N100 system with a 750ti:
because for what that PC does, i want the OS to be the least impactful part of the system, but windows 7 doesnt play nice with nvme ssds out of the box and i was too lazy to install a sata drive in this
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Something worth noting with high end professional hardware like that is the other attributes to the machines beyond just their core performance. A good high end thinkpad is a machine which will last you indefinitely, pretty much as long as the hardware itself is capable of running modern programs. I have a P50 in storage which is now 8 years old, still performs amazingly with its 45w 4x/8t xeon, 4gb m2000m, 64gb of ddr4, two nvme ssds, etc. But its also just physically held up really well. Its been knocked into stuff, dropped, used in the rain, just generally abused, and its fine. Its meant to last.
Ive got other thinkpads that are pushing 25 years old, still working fine. Ive posted to this forum before from an s30 from 2001, which still works the same as when it was new.
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Theyre easily a decade too late in my opinion. As someone whos been playing all kinds of social games for at least the last 17 years now i think. We all watched social media take off with a younger audience, and smartphones really took advantage of that, and social games lost popularity. It happened to everyone. For most people it wasnt the game, it was the social aspect. So give them a social media app in their pocket and theyll use that before playing a social game.
A lot of other platforms recognized this super quick and started development on mobile apps, some later than others, but really the only ones that caught on quick survived. Roblox made an ios app in 2012 and an android app in 2014 and their population recovered then skyrocketed. Habbo made an ios app in 2014 and an android version shortly after and their population recovered and still slowly climbs. Runescape didnt catch on until 2018 with OSRS and RS3 until 2021 but they also saw a huge increase in users with both.
But a lot of smaller games that didnt pull it off, or didnt have the development potential to pull it off, are either now stuck with a minuscule playerbase or entirely died. I dont think LL was fast enough here, i think itll still do good for the growth of the game, but i doubt it will have the effect that it had on other platforms.
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Roblox figured this out 2 years ago, real ID age verification
https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407282410644-Age-ID-Verification
For SL this would be like If you can’t prove you’re over the age of 18 with real verification, you don’t get access to anything more than G rated content. This means new accounts would have to verify first to get to anything non G rated.
Roblox did this for development and monetization features mostly, so they don’t have kids skirting taxes. But it also keeps the older community of game developers in their own bubble where they don’t have to work with the same audience of two bajillion 9 year olds.
I could see this working well for SL, it’s a much smaller community, shouldn’t be hard to manage this in comparison.
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5 minutes ago, AmeliaJ08 said:
Its a AMD Ryzen 5-7535HS apparently, 35W. I think it would be fine, could probably be compared to a 10th gen 12 thread 50W i7 mobile/H or something? probably a little better even. Those Ryzens do a lot with a few watts.
Slower by a decent bit
Most notably in multicore which isn’t a huge deal for SL, but in single core it’s a lot slower which will be an issue for sl.
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4 minutes ago, Rick Nightingale said:
Looks like it is inaccurate. A quick google shows up to 96GB (but uncertain; far more mentions of 64GB). That's more like I would expect. Put at least 32GB in. I see 64 as a minimum for my assorted uses, but that might be overkill just for SL use.
For DDR5 platforms there are 48gb dimms now. So 96gb would be its limit with two slots.
Desktop ddr5 boards for example support up to 192gb.
I think 32 would be the most preferable, and most of these gaming laptops use single 16gb dimms anyway because it’s cheaper in manufacturing. So dropping another 16gb in would be easy. Though for a single instance of SL I think 16gb would be plenty, though that depends on the individual user.
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If it’s only for secondlife, prioritize the cpu performance over the GPU. You want something with a higher tier of mobile cpu than the usual ULV options.
Something like this
https://www.newegg.com/obsidian-black-acer-nitro-v-anv15-51-75he-gaming/p/N82E16834360319
To explain why, The difference between the letter designation on the end of Intel and amd CPUs is related to their power targets. For Intel the H mobile processors are 45 watt chips that are a little closer to their desktop counterparts (though not equivalent). U chips are the ones you normally see in most machines and a lot of lower end gaming laptops, or ones with thin and light designs, they’re 15 watt options. What this means in total is just a higher wattage chip will run at higher clock speeds, sustain them for longer, usually they offer more cores or threads. In this example that nitro v has an i7 13620H which is the 45w equivalent to a conventional ULV 13th gen i7, the 1365U
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5283vs5266/Intel-i7-13620H-vs-Intel-i7-1365U
Aim for stuff like that. SL runs on anything, but it’s heavily impacted by cpu performance. The more powerful the cpu the better.
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The more I read into this thread the more I’m genuinely amazed any of this had to be done to begin with, or that there’s any argument against some of the changes.
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There’s a lot of people who just use forums in general as an outlet to be rude and argumentative. It’s not unique to here, it’s all over the place. Just rile them up for a laugh and move on.
Specific to here, you probably see a little bit more of it because it’s this really small community to begin with, so there’s a handful of people who do nothing but post here all day and they all hate eachother.
But that’s also not that special, I’ve seen worse in other places.
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The secret to secondlife is that its financial state is propped up entirely by suspiciously wealthy furries, it will always succeed if we have more furry avatars than vrchat.
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2 hours ago, Rick Nightingale said:
Seems they've improved efficiency a lot since my GTX 1080 then
Actually the opposite, pascal was definitely an outlier of a generation. But it’s hardware performance tier being similar to the rtx 3060 while being nearly the same wattage is somewhat normal. The 1080 is a 180 watt card, the 3060 is 170 watts.
What isn’t, is that it’s product placement tier equivalent, the 3080 , is 320 watts, as is the 4080.
Even my partners card, the Titan X pascal, the top end of that generation, is only 250 watts. Meanwhile the 4090 is 450 watts. And further is that those numbers for peak wattage don’t include transient spikes, where the cards can very briefly tap over 600 watts, both 3000 and 4000 series do that as well. Where cards like the 3090ti could run close to 500 watts under load and spike to 650 momentarily, which would actually kill some power supplies.
GPUs have gotten way more power hungry, it’s a shame.
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mmmm crunchy jpeg
side note, the music being listened to here was the entire of Aquarium by Aqua, start to finish, at her request
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33 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:
At least ten dollars.
This is absolutely a dig as a pc nerd, did you really get a tt tower 900 for a conventional, air cooled build with a single GPU?
This is like buying a humvee to pick up groceries.
One of the most specifically designed cases for elaborate water cooled hardware showcase builds ever made and there’s like, a 2070 and unsleeved cables in there. Bruh
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It’s an 11900k, 64gb of ram and 16gb a770 at its core. Overall cost to build was around $1400? Nothing crazy
Though this things primary purpose isnt sl, sl runs on anything. My partners PC I assembled for them as an upgrade is an i5 11400F with 32gb of ram and a GTX titan X pascal. And they still play in 1600x1200 so it doesn’t matter, at all.
But I have a lot of hardware in general, it’s a hobby, there’s like 30 video cards on shelves in my living room. SL will comfortably play on some very low end hardware. I play this game at max settings in 4k all the time, but most people I imagine are like my partner and will put the game into toaster mode visually in 1080p or lower resolutions just because they don’t care if the shadows look pretty, or are even there. And with that performance target in mind, you could get SL playing well on your average cheap used business laptop from a few years ago, entry level desktop hardware, sub $500 used PC builds, etc.
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2 hours ago, HeathcliffMontague said:
Neither is my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming. The handles will crack sooner or later.
“Lenovo ideapad” yeah, rice paper and glue
see my lenovo is an x1 nano, it’s made of carbon fiber, I can pick it up however I want without running the risk of breaking it, because it’s not made of rice paper and glue
I get the statement being made, but it’s more just like, don’t buy ewaste products from the start, you don’t need to treat your hardware like it’s super fragile if you buy stuff made to last, and low tier consumer laptops are not made to last
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