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Some companies' 2023 'powerhouse' devices are still on 13.. Just sayin'.

If you have a sufficiently 'open' device, yes you could try to install the latest OS. But most people's devices are kind of 'on rails' from the manufacturer. Companies like Motorola, Samsung, etc will have their own special 'flavor' of the OS (think Linux Distros). Android 14 might be released in January, but Samsung will then be chugging through it doing testing on all of their devices, looking for issues, making tweaks, etc. They'll add their own proprietary apps and changes, and then test to see what works and doesn't on what machines. They might disable a few things that slow a machine down, or cause issues.. try to provide machine specific fixes, etc.. depending on how recently the device was released. Then when all that's done, they'll ship out *their version* of the OS update to those phones. Certain service providers (think Verizon, Virgin Mobile, whatever) might have special 'roll their own' versions of the OS that are specific to certain devices covered by their plan. Since they have extra apps to bundle with those things, they'll usually do their own pass on such things, A process which can add months to the update process.. if your phone even GETS the update. And when the maker or provider doesn't offer an update for your phone.. you're faced with liviung with the current version you have, or trying to do a jailbreak/rom replacement dance to hopefully let your phone update, at the risk of bricking the device or losing service. It's not just like 'updating windows'.

If you've installed it previously, you can fish around in User Icon > Manage Apps & Device > Manage > Not Installed and find it there. That will allow you to access the app's listing, and leave a review.

Leave a review. Google Play Store: 2.6/5 Apple App Store: 3.1/5 I'm not suggesting you leave a dishonest review, but Linden Lab's owner has made it clear that he cares deeply about the 'success' or 'failure' of the apps, in terms of their star ratings, If a decision by the lab negatively impacts your ability to utilize the app, you should make sure any star rating you give accurately reflects your current experience with the app. •• ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ •• Edited to add this extra info: If you've installed it previously, you can fish around in the Google Play app: User Icon > Manage Apps & Device > Manage > Not Installed You should be able to then find "Second Life" there. That will allow you to access the app's listing, and leave a review.

I think the argument is that 'sex and sexuality' is an intrinsic part of the SL economy, and whether you realize it or not, a large portion of the active userbase is here 'for it'. This has a knock-on effect that isn't terribly intuitive, but it goes something like this: If you snapped your fingers and deleted sex from SL.. some people would quit. You might not... but some of your friends would. Those of your friends that didn't quit, some of THEIR friends would. Suddenly "no one's online anymore".. and the non-sex people start getting bored and lonely in SL. This in turn starts eating into the money being made by 'rental agencies'.. as more and more people who rented land for a personal getaway for 'the sexy times' stop showing up to pay the rent. More available parcels, without some magical influx of buyers turns into landlords dumping land, or having more costs to cover. This in turn starts eating away at the 'bulk discount' that rental businesses can offer, meaning rents go up. At the same time, many of those fun non-sexual clubs you love to visit start noticing that a lot less people are showing up.. no one's interested in dancing on the poles anymore for tips. The clubs aren't making tips, their rents are going up... So now the clubs start shutting down. Many of those non-sexual stores you love to shop at start wondering why their stripper-iffic clothes aren't selling as well as they used to.. You can see where this goes. It's not to say "everyone in SL is here for sex" obviously that's not true. But you know some people who'd find SL pretty dry without it.. and they'd start wondering why they're spending $99 or $199 on an annual membership just to stand around. And then LL starts noticing that a lot fewer people are paying for Premium +/- Plus.. a lot less people are owning land, buying private islands..

One weird quirk seems to be, if someone changes their name to something.. let's say "Joe Resident" changes their name to "Jeffrey Smith".. then after a week he says "I hate this, everyone calls me Joe, I'm going back to that" and then pays the fee to change back to Joe Resident.. the name "Jeffrey Smith" is still permanently unavailable to anyone else. I know this because a friend registered a name I REEEEAAAALLLY liked, then released it like a day later. But it's gone, gone, gone. We're still friends tho. •• ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ •• That said, we DESPERATELY need some new last names.

I feel like it'd look more like this:

If a post gets 3 or more upvotes from your friends/followers, it will appear in the 'Trending" section.. but I believe Trending is also based on the recency of the post. So if it takes 5 minutes for a post to get those upvotes it'll appear at the top, but if it takes 4 days, it might be added to Trending, but several pages back. In a more refined system, the ranking would probably also be based on the recency of the most recent ♥s, and how many it had received.. but as others have mentioned, development kind of stopped (as with most things from LL, once released, services and features are rarely revisited. At Linden Lab, new features "Drop".. and are then.. "Dropped".

That's the entire point of this thread. "LL endorsing closed systems when they could instead be putting in the leg work to utilize open systems, or even create one that ties into existing (free) technologies" You can't even 'give non-member friends links to see your primfeed posts', because if they don't have a primfeed account already, they can't even see the post.

Given the historical problems with SL users getting banned from facebook for pseudonyms, it would seem to be a non-starter to make use of any Meta property. Not to mention the whole "technically a competitor' thing.

Even this one.. https://my.secondlife.com/istelathis/snapshots/64ac85fbbe12e85c7ab45e9c?version=original

https://my.secondlife.com/istelathis/snapshots/66c2e3efc32c972dd6d3a51e?version=original If you click the word 'snapshot' it's right there.

Well, presumably like https://my.secondlife.com/Gabriele.Graves you'd have a similar option to opt in/out.

I think the intention was that, when ELon started pulling his shenanigans at Twitter, there was a big push for something 'else'. Mastodon appeared to fill that role. No one is saying that Mastodon is the end-all-be-all of social media as an alternative, but as far as I know it's 'open source' and 'free' to start one, as it is to say 'start your own IRC server' or 'start your own usenet group'. The idea of Linden Lab taking a ready made, open source solution like that, and creating something akin to 'connect.secondlife.com', where you could be weflossdaily@connect.secondlife.com, where the things you post to your 'profile feed' could have a bit of interconnected reach, with apps that already exist for phones and desktops. Suddenly you could share a pic via the viewer, choose your 'reach' and 'rating' setting, and based on that, your pic could be visible to friends, followers, to all SL users, maybe SL users with a given rating setting, or the greater 'all' of mastodon users who happened to discover your feed.

Classic search (in firestorm) isn't updated anymore, and a lot of 'gone' regions are still listed in search. So those 'zero traffic' locations that you can't get to, in many cases are just ghost entries in the database. As for the cornfield, I believe you need to agree to join the experience before you can TP there (similar to The Void). It's really odd that there's no dialog that explains that, and allows you to agree to join it, then try TPing again.

Sorry about that, I've been offline for most of the past week.. been packing to move. I'll see about getting those numbers back up in a week or so. In all seriousness, does this include the regions for SL21B?

Oh, I definitely don't. But this is something that Brad mentioned a COUPLE of times in his public addresses around the release of mobile "don't mess this up".. he'd keep saying, "if mobile succeeds, lots of other projects in the future hinge on that.. if mobile fails, those things won't happen". Mobile slipping below 3.0 definitely has to feel like a 'negative' in Linden's offices.. and the blowback from PBR was completely unexpected by the Lab, in spite of what Firestorm had been telling them for a year. LL assumed FS's team was wrong about how PBR would be received.. Suddenly, LL cancels a promoted community round-table during the big SL21B event.. says they'll announce real soon when it'll be rescheduled.. and then.. social media goes dark, and all the things that others have mentioned. I don't like feeling threatened by the Lab's response to Mobile reviews.. moreso because my devices can't install it, so I can't even LEAVE a review myself to try to tip those scales. I do have a strong opinion that LL should have 'released" the mobile apps only after the 'any membership level can use it' hurdle was passed, as I think they shot themselves in the foot in terms of app discovery by non-SL users, and people who'd wanted to use SL for years but didn't own a desktop/laptop. But armchair quarterbacking that after the fact doesn't help. And truth be told, LL didn't ask me what they should do. (nor should they, I'm just an art geek, not an app developer or marketing major). My worry is that the "Bad Things" we were threatened with, may be inevitable if the mobile app doesn't 'succeed'.. and with no power to help it succeed, I feel like I have no agency in the 'good' or 'bad' results that will come my, and our way.

Brad Oberwager May 20, 2024 Source: Autogenerated Transcript on this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCKmPzb_2Y As of today: Apple App Store: 3.2 out of 5 Google Play Store: 2.9 out of 5 Are we at the "Bad things" that will happen? Personally I don't have a device that can run the thing, so I can't even leave a review.

To be fair tho.. given the 'somethings' they've done recently, I'm not sure I want more 'something' from LL.

There's a feedback about this issue.. as other have said though, it's been around since ~2012. https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/1-prim-should-be-1-li-even-when-it-has-a-pbr It's definitely not predictable behaviour to have a 1Li twisted torus convert to 892Li because you added a bump map.

In previous 'graphics upgrades' to SL, we'd get one big 'rough' release.. where folks would complain about performance, then iterative releases after that, to 'fine tune' the way the stock graphics settings were set, once LL had some data on 'who was crashing' and 'what kind of hardware they had', vs 'what settings they were using.' This release has been different.. because for better or worse, FS held off releasing it to the general userbase. My understanding was that they were trying to hold back in an effort to force LL to address the issues everyone is complaining about now (water, hardware issues, fps, etc).. but LL's own viewer has such poor adoption at this point that THEY (LL) just weren't seeing the problem. Maybe because anyone with a problem just logged out and installed pre-PBR Firestorm. FS seems to have been forced into a 'release it now, LL is out of patience' scenario. Now LL is reacting (it seems), but FS is getting a huge amount of backlash, when ironically the reason you're all having trouble today is because you'd have been having worse trouble if they'd released it months ago. My advice would be to fiddle with the settings. Disabling mirrors and Screen-Space reflections can do a lot. Turning "Reflection Detail" to Static, or Static and Dynamic can help some as well. Yes, your video card is being utilized more, yes it's generating heat.. and that 1050 you bought in 2016 is struggling with SL now. (my 1060 is too). Now is a good time to start shopping for a hardware upgrade. 3060 and 4060 cards are at a pretty palatable price point right now, and will get you back up to snuff pretty well. I'm sure there will be some regular updates to the SL viewer, possibly fiddling with the 'recommended settings for various video hardware'. FS will surely get some as well, especially if people use the viewer, and submit those crash reports. And if you find a bug, report it! either through https://feedback.secondlife.com or through Firestorm's Jira https://jira.firestormviewer.or And for the record, in my skybox I can often pull 70FPS in the PBR Firestorm. Here are my settings on a 1060.

So when I got 'serious' about 'accepting the new normal'... I had been building a structure using a prefab building kit. So I just set aside the work I'd done, and started over 50m below. I was building a spaceship, and I was planning to use an environment surround box anyways, so I chose a fairly neutral 'night time' EEP that didn't look too weird (A-9PM specifically). I built my rooms and corridors, and set them up with one reflection probe each, because 'seams' in reflection probes can be a little weird, and they can create lighting 'zones' where fullbright/emissive surfaces may 'reflect' onto other surfaces. (Emission isn't finished yet, I'm told). The probes work basically by setting up a '360° camera' at the center of where you set up the probe, and then projecting the image they capture onto a box or sphere based on which type of probe you select. That invisible 'reflection box' is what then gets reflected by the objects that are shiny. But because of that, if there's anything that's fullbright in the room, it will also be captured by that '360° screenshot', which will add the brightness of it, to the reflections. It's not 'true light', but it has much the same effect inworld. There's definitely an order of operations here. "World (EEP/Windlight)" "Building (fullbright/baked shadows)" "Room (reflection probe)" "Area (lighting)"

1. Stand outside on your land, and choose a 'windlight' (eep) that suits your environment. Have a few shiny objects and things that will cast shadows, to get an idea of how those items will look in your chosen EEP. 2. Lock in the EEP you've decided on. 3. Go inside now, and create your reflection probes. Ideally one per room. These should extend into the walls, but should avoid extending into additional rooms. Similarly you should try to avoid overlapping the reflection probes, if possible. (remember, you'll need to enable "Select Reflection Probes" under Object > Build (or in the Builder floater in Firestorm) 4. If your house if fullbright, turn it off. If it has baked-in shadows and lights from windows that look weird now.. you might want to consider a new building. 5. Rez a prim sphere, tint it black, with a solid-white "Specular" texture. Set the specular settings to 0 Specular, 255 Environment. You now have a chrome sphere, so you can get a sense of what's being reflected by the probe. You'll notice that fullbright surfaces will actually add 'light' to the reflection probe. 6. Start considering the lighting of your space. If it has dark areas, add some lamps. You may need to adjust the light settings on your lamps, manually. This will take some fiddling, and there's no easy way to do it. NOTE: "Ambient Fill" lighting on 'advanced projector' lights doesn't work the way it used to, and in my experience is best set to zero.

The main problem is twofold: 1. Most mesh bodies for female-bodied individuals are sold without mod permissions. 2. Most mesh bodies sold with potentially-sexually active, adult females in mind, have actual genitals modeled into the crotch (unlike with most male mesh bodies, which anticipate a separate attachment). So while you can paint panties onto the skin or BOM (painties?).. you'll end up with a cameltoe of the worst kind. Almost every female mesh body comes with this genitalia modeled into the crotch, with the only exceptions I know being Tweenster (which is made for kids) and Senra. The only mod bodies I know of are Kemono and Reborn. Both of which feature prominent labial folds and (optional) mesh nipples. While Kemono (and some other bodies) offer the ability to 'hide' that geometry, it's not at all the same as 'not having it'. LL's been very clear about this point.. it can't be 'optional' for a kid's avatar.. and you can't have 'accentuated naughty bits'.. and if that's not accentuated, I don't know what is. It's unclear whether an end-user modding their body to remove the offending geometry is an acceptable compromise.. and it has been suggested that the methods employed by LL to 'investigate' the avatar's state at the time of a reported infraction may be limited to what they can call up from the asset server that you were recorded as wearing at the time, which may well be limited to your skin files (hence the original statement about the undies being 'painted on' to the skin rather than BOM'd on.) Much the same as child avatars live with some question as to whether hand-editing a furniture item/vehicle to remove adult content is or isn't considered acceptable.. or if the furniture/vehicle is forever tainted by the contents it shipped with from the maker.

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