BriannaLovey
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2 hours ago, Jackson Redstar said:
Sl has always been like this though. there are settings in the debug settings that can, under the right circumstances, help performance but nobody really knows anything about them other than, of course, the developers
If this were any other company, they would have already tested out a variety of hardware with this and determined which hardware to enable/disable it with. Unfortunately this is not the case.
As for what RenderGLMultiThreadedTextures actually does, it uses multithreading to load textures into memory. The performance gain for this is going to depend more on your CPU, internet connection, and disk read/write speed than your GPU. PCIe bandwidth for your GPU connection will of course be a factor too, but most motherboards use 16x.
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On 8/21/2024 at 5:00 AM, Katherine Heartsong said:
This is less than ten minutes of fooling around in a modern, in-game character creator engine with a much better UX/UI. No instructions read, just dove right in.
Ten minutes. Ten.
I haven't even begun to tinker much, either. These are completely unedited except resizing and hiding the UI.
No stresses about neck seams, head and body, clothing fitting, etc.
I'm just saying, this is what SL's avatar creation could be.
This will likely never happen unless LL tears everything down and starts from scratch. Which they already tried with Sansar, and it didn't go very well.
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1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I think this is true.
But I also don't see why this is an "either/or" proposition.
It isn't an either/or. Ceka explained the problem quite well though:
On 8/20/2024 at 3:45 AM, Ceka Cianci said:From what I'm reading, bigger companies/corporations like google and meta were supporting it and could stay compliant because of the amount of lawyers that they could put on it to make sure they could.. This would have favored the larger corporations and opened up more of the market for them.
The more laws are created, the more difficult and expensive it becomes to navigate the growing labyrinth that is the legal system. Monopolistic and near-monopolistic entities have the incentive to keep pushing for expansions of the law in order to further fortify their monopolies in their respective industries. Appealing to the safety of children is the most low-hanging fruit as far as manufacturing public consent for this goes, since it takes advantage of our deep-seated parental instincts.
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22 hours ago, Perrie Juran said:
This will only pertain to the United States.
Yep. LL is going to capitulate to any jurisdiction that their target demographic exists within.
On 8/20/2024 at 12:15 AM, Scylla Rhiadra said:Not a lawyer, etc., etc., and I don't really know enough about this law to opine whether I think this decision is a good thing or not (and honestly, I care much less about whether it's good for SL than I do about whether it's good for children), but . . .
. . . the way that giant impersonal corporations are treated as though they were people, with constitutional rights, is just bizarre, and seems to me to demonstrate how far we've wandered from talking about human rights, and are now mostly concerned with corporate rights.
"The court ruled that the requirement triggered strict constitutional scrutiny 'because it clearly compels speech' by forcing companies to 'opine' on what content could be harmful to children."
For god's sake, it's a corporation: it doesn't have "opinions"; it has, at best, "policies" and "procedures," most likely produced by a board of directors in consultation with a roomful of lawyers. And it sure as hell shouldn't have rights against "compelled speech" in the same way people do.
Again, I can't comment on the specifics of this law, but if it comes to a choice between defending a company's "rights" and those of children, I know which side I'd be arguing on.
I don't have children, but if I did I would likely limit their Internet access to a bare minimum set of whitelisted sites/software. No amount of laws will be able to truly protect children from the horrors of the Internet if they cannot be enforced.
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On 8/20/2024 at 7:28 PM, KarraSue said:
I am on 6.6.17.70368. The past couple days I have crashed after several hours, getting a "BugSplat" error message pop up. (See attached photo). No issues with computer as it is a higher end gaming laptop. Up until yesterday (Aug 19th) I was having no issues with Firestorm. Same issue with the current release. Is this being looked into???? i
Since 6.6.17 probably won't be maintained anymore by the Firestorm team:
If you are still having this issue, would you mind clicking on the "View Report Details" button and pasting the text here?
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16 hours ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:
oh so i can be premium, but ill have to pay a monthly fee to access adult content?
Bull*****
Could go either way. I have no idea which they will choose.
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19 hours ago, Crim Mip said:
Remotely disabling a product somebody paid for and not giving a refund is unethical and shady. It doesn't matter what the reason is.
Imagine if this was done in real life...oh wait.
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1 hour ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:
how is a subscription service different from being premium?
Not different at all, but there is no guarantee that they will use existing premium branding, or even put it in the same package as premium. Doing so would be optimal as far as marketing goes, but it would also mean not being able to extract as much revenue.
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47 minutes ago, Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia said:
I do not use voice, and I avoid hanging out in places where people use voice a lot.
That said, I am looking forward to trying WebRTC. I think most non-voice using people don't fully grasp how nice a higher bitrate is. I'm not being a snobby audiophile when I say that. Vivox streams at a variable sample rate, that can dip as low as 4 khz. Last I heard, WebRTC will reliably stream at 48 khz. That's like the aural equivalent of comparing 8 bit and 16 bit graphics. Web RTC is better than a regular telephone, which samples at 8khz, in America. WebRTC is not going to be as nice as a club's audio stream, though. Icecast, for example, streams at a 256khz sample rate. So it won't be the best quality ever, but it will be an improvement. So when you hear it, you might like it, even if you don't like voice now. Or you might not like it. I might not like it, but I'll at least give it a fair chance to win me over.
I think WebRTC will probably improve voice more than PBR 'improved' graphics. Unless LL is pushing a broken implementation again. That wouldn't surprise me, at this point. I hope it works, though.
They won't be using their own implementation, so it should go smoothly.
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Since Vivox is only built for Windows and MacOS, getting it to work on Linux is more trouble than it is worth. So it hasn't been worth the trouble for me.
Now though, I will probably turn it on to listen to people who do use it if they prefer not to type. I don't like talking on voice myself since I am better at typing and don't want to disrupt those around me IRL.
In general regardless of whether or not you use voice, it is always good to reduce reliance on proprietary dependencies.
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1 hour ago, Luna Bliss said:
other things to come..........other things to come...........other things to come........echoes in my mind like the opening sequence to The Twilight Zone..
My prediction is that access to non-Apple-friendly adult content on SL will eventually become locked behind a subscription service as age verification laws are created in more jurisdictions.
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16 hours ago, CharleneNarcross said:
" I would LIKE to see mobile succeed, however this is another reason I may consider switching from my adult land."
A reason for me to buy an Android tablet. Sigh.
You may not be safe there either, unless LL provides the option for the viewer to be downloaded outside the Play store. Or if they release the source code to it and allow us to compile our own, which is also unlikely for reasons I won't go into now.
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19 hours ago, Jackson Redstar said:
yeah been doing more research and experimenting and it never really dawned on me before but the FPS limiter makes a perfect example. If you set it to say, 40fps, and your are only getting 25fps - then that is the limit of the CPU you are getting not the GPU. And while having tons of VRAM help keep things smooth, or so it seems - in SL you absolutely hit the wall with the CPU usually before any decent GPU. Seems the ideal setup for SL might be a i7, 16 or 32 gig RAM and something like a GTX 1080- but with 12 or 16 gig of VRAM
SL's rigged mesh implementation is still done on the CPU, whereas other games use the GPU for it. If you are in an area with lots of other people with high-poly rigged mesh, this is at least part of why you will experience lower performance.
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9 hours ago, Orwar said:
A paywalled article and a heap of legalese. 'Sup?
Removing paywalls is trivial with archive.is: https://archive.is/QayRZ
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9 hours ago, ananoelle said:
As they should!!! (not sexualising this)
Name one online platform that allows that kind of thing?
Quit with the creepy responses and entitled behaviour.
You can still RP bath time.. no need for realism.
I am just pointing out the incentives here. As I have said elsewhere, the child nudity ban is a canary in the coal mine for other things to come.
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6 hours ago, Jorden Lorefield said:
So a child can't be naked in a bathtub wtf, since when does giving a child a bath become a tos breech? taking a bath in your underwear or what ever is not realistic at all, I think they need to revisit this, they clearly weren't thinking that clearly when they came up with that line of bull *****. If I may ask what made second life officials go on a vendetta like this.
Shakes her head
Blame Apple and Google. LL wants to sanitize their platform in order to get it listed on the mobile cyber-cattle stores in order to get more money (as businesses tend to pursue,) and they supposedly frown on child nudity (as well as lots of other stuff in SL) quite a bit.
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On 8/18/2024 at 12:41 AM, Arduenn Schwartzman said:
A male adult attachment with a kill switch. Noice. Hadn't heard of that one before.
Surely that must involve some HTTP connection to a remote server. It makes me wonder what else is being transmitted over that line - locations, timestamps, UUIDs of people nearby, what their attachments are, local chat lines.. "Big Genital is watching you."
Surely such an unexpected product feature warrants an appropriate product review on Marketplace. Key here is to remain polite, honest, objective and to the point. Marketplace moderators are keen to remove reviews with profanities, threats and off-topic accusations.
Closed-source software in general is always going to be a security issue if the software developer cannot be held accountable.
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6 hours ago, Janet Voxel said:
Are we really ignoring the fact that LL has to step in to help fix a third party viewer?
They reap what they sow. Firestorm had superior UX and features to the official viewer, so many people used it. Why didn't LL adapt based on what their users wanted? Who knows.
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16 minutes ago, AmeliaJ08 said:
I have no idea why they won't update that. Genuinely 8GB of RAM isn't enough for their viewer any more, 4GB... I would guess it would just fall over completely.
They know fine well their engine requires a discrete GPU as well, it's not an option any more.
I run on 8GB of RAM all the time, works fine as long as I don't maximize my draw distance and keep ALM turned off.
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Adult content will eventually become a subscription service in tandem tightening of age verification policy.
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I can't say I like it at all, but I definitely see things heading in this direction.
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1 hour ago, Janet Voxel said:
*twerks on the way out*
What was this from?
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Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I do so love conversations in which we talk about the "types of people" we think are "desirable" for SL.
Why? Because they're more like you, perhaps?
This guy thinks you need a gaming PC to play Minecraft; best to not take his opinion too seriously.
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14 minutes ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
It wouldn't be fine to de-facto hardware ban them, no matter how few there are.
But if you look at that chart, it shows that:
1) The "can't run it" faction,
2) The "don't like it" faction,
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3) the "haven't heard of it" faction
COMBINED - are less than the percentage of people who are using it. Which is not the story some posters around here have been telling.
Again I ask. If this was really the case, then why not block 6.6.17 like was done with previous releases?
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Something simple like this
bool gpu_is_intel_gpu() { std::string gpu_name = gFeatureManager.getGPUString(); boost::algorithm::to_lower(gpu_name); return gpu_name.contains("intel"); } void configure_texture_multithreading_thingy() { gSavedSettings.setBool("RenderGLMultiThreadedTextures", !gpu_is_intel_gpu() ); }would alleviate the need for the user to disable an obscure debug setting in order for the viewer to perform optimally. But nope, why bother testing stuff when you can just wait for users to run into problems and deal with it later?