Toothless Draegonne

It's become something of a meme amongst a few people when I come in with my usual smol chirpy avali avatar or some kind of squeaky plush toy. Voice up, and people are screaming YOU MUST BE USING A VOICE CHANGER. Apparently they can't get over a smol fluffbird talking like a BBC news presenter or something. Kinda amusing, to be honest.

Depends on what you want your experience to be. Set the EEP on the parcel how you like it and enjoy your pink Martian skies, or constant-starlight deep-space skybox. I'd say there's a case for making LDPW madlands be consistent with only gradual changes as you travel, but outside of that, it's your parcel/region/estate. Do whatever.

Regions have their own isolated slice of compute on the simulator that they run on. Linking another region just means you have two isolated slices of compute next door to each other. You can use this for load-balancing, but it's not one shared pool of compute. From what I'm aware (and from what I've seen through experimenting), there is no actual difference between a 20 and 30K region asides amount of land impact available. A Homestead-class region has a 5ms script cap, and seems to have some limits as far as maximum number of rezzed objects per second, compared to a 20 or 30K.

Still running SL okay on last year's Asus TUF A17. ROG is for if you have a whole bunch of money to spend on high end. TUF is the mid-tier.

This has been standard viewer advice for the last year now, and hitting the install-wall has been a thing in general for much longer than that.

Unfortunately due to the increasing paranoia of AV software and the cost of getting certified, this is an increasing occurence for an increasing amount of any kind of indy software, which basically every TPV is. Either you're having to add exceptions, or you're having to override the install-wall. Or both. I'm wondering if this is a deliberate Microsoftian attempt to force everyone onto their crappy app store, but nonetheless, FS is far from alone in needing people to turn off AV or access control features, and kind of removes the point of even having them.

Are you in a skybox? The chances are you're relying on the default "autoprobe", which attempts to place itself if you are using no manual reflection probes. If you place a probe that covers only your skybox, then the things inside it should be affected by your skybox or your building's internal lighting, rather than the outside sky, which will be all around you if you're up at altitude. Also worth noting that manual probes have an ambience value, which can help raise the ..well.. ambient light value without adding additional light sources.

Teens can join general regions. Whether you think this is a good idea or not is another matter.

Well, I mean actually private as in, "cannot even cam your location or what is in your place because you physically can't teleport into the region unless invited" level of privacy. Only thing that allows that level of privacy is renting your own region. But uh yeah, that price tag

I only have a rugged, reliable, waterproof, dustproof, toughened phone that's capable of coping with the drops, dings and accidents that real life throws at it. Of course it's not compatible with second life. For the kind of price I'd need to drop on the kind of hand jewellery that the mobile client wants, I'd rather buy a PC that can run a full-fat PBR viewer at ultra and still have change left over.

For free, unlikely. You can pick any moderate or adult sandbox, rez a skysphere and do whatever up there, but you'll always be able to be cammed on by anybody else in the region. Check the region rules, because the rating doesn't matter if the region owner doesn't want people flaunting their wobbly bits. If you have premium, you can request a linden home in a moderate region and just set parcel controls so people outside the parcel can't see you. For an actually private area with no chance of anybody except the people you invite being able to see anything, your only realistic option is a private region, and they are very much not free.

Nope, just here handing out free reality checks. You want to hobble yourself, I'm not going to stop you. But screaming about standards that should have been adopted 10 years ago isn't going to do anything good. Trying to tell people that you'll need to drop $1500 on a computer that can run SL is not going to do anybody any good either.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WestCoast Valley/128/128/2 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DramaField/128/128/2 Both black-owned, both predominantly occupied by people of various not-mayonnaise-white colour but without banning anybody based on race. Both can range from being fairly chill to being loud screaming matches, depending on what the drama of the day is doing and whether the usual suspects have descended on the place to munch popcorn and sip tea. Oh and if you see kcam, give em a hi5. Silliest raccoon on the grid.

You appear to have this rather oddball fascination with Unreal Engine, like it's the only game engine in existance. Regardless, it's not me leaving. It's basically everyone that's already left for much richer pastures. I'll probably still be around throwing particles and musicboxes at people. Now though, the musicboxes might have gltf overrides for a little extra magic. Maybe at some point the old creators might come back, if they haven't been permanently put off by some of the more stupid things the Lab has done over the years. For as long as SL remains this special little boy with very special needs though, like hell they will.

I can kind of understand why you might want to run a viewer in a virtual machine, but it's a virtual machine. This is probably even less common than people trying to run ultra detail levels on a netbook, and you have to accept at least some drop in FPS even if you're passing a dedicated GPU through and enabling all the CPU switches to speed things up a bit. Again, try not running ultra.