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Phil Deakins

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  1. The OpenSim grids that Arielle mentioned are a bunch of independant reverse-engineered SL clones. I'd guess that the total number of sims doesn't equal SL's number or, if it does, they may be about equal. But that's just a guess. Where OpenSim loses is that comparatively few people use the grids. On the plus side, it's good for getting away for things like scripting and such in peace, most stuff is free, and free land is available in many places (I have a free 3k in one of the grids, and I had a free 10k in another but there was never anyone else around). I can imagine it would be very good for a group of people to get together. So it does have its good points, but my answer to the OP's question is that SL far outshines any other similar system. ETA: Another plus for the OpenSim grids is that you can create your own grid on your own computer and connect it to the OpenSim grids. Your own grid would be just like SL.
  2. @Henri Beauchamp I've been considering getting a Raspberry Pi5. If you have any success, post here and let us know please. Maybe we could do what we did before with Radegast, and try to get it running on the Pi.
  3. That wouldn't work. Here, we have gardens and yards. Gardens have plant-life (grass, flowers, trees, etc.), yards are stone or concrete.
  4. There have been some incredibly beautiful female avatars around but I've never had a crush on any of them. Oddly though, more recent female faces don't seem to be as beautiful (in my eyes) as some of the earlier ones. That's a purely superficial point of view, which avatars are, of course. I have no doubt that there are beautiful personalities behind a great many avatars.
  5. Don't reject every alternative method R E P L Y
  6. People rarely offer ongoing friendship C H U M S
  7. Luminosity is getting higher today WHITE
  8. Retro prim furniture I mentioned this idea a couple of times and one or two people thought it was a good idea. But it won't fly. It could get a few sales; i.e. it could make the occasional little nudge along the runway, but it would never take off and fly. - not as an inworld store, anyway, and not even in the marketplace. In both locations, it may get an occasional bump along the runway, but that all - imo. I have an inventory full of the prim furniture I used to sell and, if I thought it would actually work as even a slightly profitable business, I'd do it. But it won't.
  9. I suppose there's no chance of you making it run on an ARM processor?
  10. Speedlight mostly, although it's a client and not really a viewer. When I need to go to places, and when creating, I vary between the official one, Alchemy, and Genesis. I would use Genesis mostly, for sheer speed, but not for scripting (because it doesn't expand menus downwards to fit the text and buttons, and my scripts often need that). For OpenSim, I use Firestorm.
  11. I did. It was during last year. I use a Raspberry Pi as my main computer, but I have to use a tower machine for logging into SL with a normal viewer. With Henry's help, I did manage to get a thin client (Radegast) running on the Raspberry Pi but it stopped working the next day, and I couldn't get it back again. The problem with the RPi is that it uses an ARM processor but a 'normal' viewer doesn't exist for that processor. Apparently there was a way to achieve it but Microsoft scuppered it by no longer supporting something that's needed. Henry knows all about it, but I wasn't used to it at all so my memory hasn't retained what it's all about. Speedlight runs in a browser so I can use the RPi fully for it.
  12. If it helps a bit more, I also use the Alchemy viewer. The SL, Alchemy, and Genesis viewers are my viewers of choice these days, depending on what I want to log in for, but I've used others over the years too. Correction: I should have said 18 years in SL, not 17 years.
  13. No. It takes them time to incorporate the changes. That's all. I do realise that that's one of your stock offerings, so I won't get into it
  14. I do, yes. And I also use normal viewers when I want to do more in SL than Speedlight can manage. Right now, for instance, I am logged in with the SL viewer and I have an alt logged in with the Genesis viewer. So I'm not disqualified at all . Also, after 17 years in SL, I think I can qualify anyway In fact, I use various 'normal' viewers, depending on what I want to do.
  15. So to sum up the recent posts in this thread, TPVs are always significantly behind the times, the LL viewer does everything that most users want or need, and most of the so-called extras that TPVs have are nothing more than breaking out things that the LL viewers always have, making some things that most people neither use nor need easier to find whilst complicating usability.
  16. You must have been very unlucky. Every year I put up a small decorated Christmas tree that an SL friend sent me from New York (to here in the UK). Even here in the forum, I gave my phone number to a friend without any repercussions at all. It was for a specific purpose which soon became unnecessary, so she didn't use the number at all.
  17. You could bring another discussionbot in, a brother maybe, and discuss it between yourselves
  18. I was commenting on the post that suggested they wouldn't be found associated with stores. I meant that many store owners would use them as they always did, because that was the very purpose for most bots. Whether or not they are actual bots or legal avatars logged in with thin clients wasn't the point. I do know that stores still use traffic avatars, actual bots or otherwise.
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