Perrie Juran

I have not read this entire thread so if this has been asked I apologize. This acquisition is subject to regulatory approval. One part of the approval process is gathering public comment. If you oppose this what would you say to the regularity authority? I don't think "It threatens my Second Life presence" would fly very well. And if LL did not see that this would scare the bejesus out of its users, that is its Customers, it boggles my mind. They need to explain how this will affect the Lindex. Any negative affect on the Lindex could destroy the SL economy. The overall stability of the Lindex has been key in SL's survival. Will LL suddenly have to but $L from Thune to fulfill my weekly premium bonus??????

Firestorm has a help page on log in failures. Hopefully this helps https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_login_issues

Merchants have begged for years for the list of words that in a description would cause an item to get an adult rating and LL has refused to release leaving Merchants with the task of trial and error to find the offending word. Back in the day of standard sizes they could not use XXX to describe a size. XXX in a listing would get a Burka an adult rating.

Also add them to the exclusion list in your Anti-Virus.

I know years ago there was one creator who got chastised in these Forums when they said that they used 1024's for everything. His defense was "Everyone else does it." A sad thing.

Years ago LL made a run at age verification and despite great wailing and gnashing of teeth people used it. It was however short lived, mainly because the way they chose to do it sucked rotten bananas.

I listened to the Lab Gab and unless I missed it I did not hear them saying 2K would be mandatory. Can you point to a timestamp for this?

You do not give LL extra income. You are not buying $L from LL. While LL administers the Lindex, buying and selling $L are user to user transactions. E.g., Merchant wanting to cash out sells their $L on the Lindex. You, wanting $L to spend In World then buy them for cash. But you do get a better rate with Limit Buy, that there is no question.

Linden Lab's instructions are pretty weak, they don't include any of the executables which need whitelisted separately as explained in Firestorms instructions. https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/how-to-improve-viewer-performance-r601/#Section__1_3

I really do miss Torley Linden. Years ago he wrote in another thread in the Forums: "In my head, I've long heard varied voices that inform my life choices. They span a rich spectrum of genders, races, etc. It was only natural that I express them as avatars — earlier, I used the term "Torley Council", or there's that joke from some Residents, that when they see me, they go "It's a Torley!" Hahahaha. I have a very strong female voice that emerges here. She encourages me to be more sensible and explanatory (I used to be terse and not all that social), and it feels 1000% natural to me. Not having that would feel strongly repressive, and so with SL as an outlet — or whatever you want to call it — I've been able to unify my personality and feel a lot healthier in both lives as a result. It is a difficult thing that, while life in general appeals to a diversity of people, many people's interests are in conflict. This is also true in Second Life, and I continue to be a proponent of responsible disclosure in relationships that matter to you. On top of that, there's insecurity that people keep hidden, not to mention jealousy and other "demons" that drag someone down from acknowledging and living the life THEY really want... in the process they become control freaks trying to prevent OTHERS from feeling fulfilled, as Darrius initially mentioned. The psychology of it intrigues me deeply. I just hope more people can come inworld and use Second Life as a tool of confronting hangups and dealing with their baggage, so they have healthier relationships with others. Not growing means not really living."

From: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory Linden Lab does not give approval to any Third Party Viewers. The viewers in the directory self-certify that they are in compliance with the Lab's policies on Third Party Viewers. Should a TPV be found not in compliance, depending on the nature of the violation, LL will take appropriate measures up to and including removing that Viewer from the Third Party Directory. We all use these Viewers at our own risk.

Just for reference I posted that link to Investopedia because I saw some things here that were more guesses than based on fact. I used to have links to the FinCen rulings on Linden Dollars but sadly lost them all when a hard drive deep six'd on me and I never recovered them among many other links. From my observations it is a very small percentage of SLer's who have any understanding of how the Lindex works.

"Because Linden dollars has a determinable value in the real market, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen), a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury, recognized Linden Money as a convertible centralized virtual currency in 2013. This means that there are tax implications for any transaction involving Linden Dollars. " https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/linden-dollar.asp

He was more than that. He was a convicted criminal. https://modemworld.me/2011/08/02/redzone-closure-of-a-sort/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/363/1028/531950/

Any one who thinks that a VPN does this has been lulled into a false sense of security. As a matter of fact bad actors have been known to use VPN's to mask their origin. https://www.consumerreports.org/vpn-services/vpn-testing-poor-privacy-security-hyperbolic-claims-a1103787639/