[Do you use Advanced Lighting in SL? a little poll!]

On a 2020 macbook pro on FS and when  ALM and no shadows, 72m draw , no other avatars ARC  over 20000--- my   FPS  drops like a rock; with PBR will I grind to a halt?

I don't want static pixs , I live here . Why buy stuff or rent if you can't move.

 

[Marketplace spring cleaning - an alternate approach]

2 hours ago, Flea Yatsenko said:

Basically, if they've logged in OR sold something in the last year, their store is untouched.

I read it that if they sold anything in last year -storefront remains BUT any item not sold within last year poofs.  That is "touching" in my book.

I'd suggest if the store has sales -so it stays --expand the item deletion to say, two or three years so people will have a cycle to get seasonal stuff or complete a collection.

[Marketplace spring cleaning - an alternate approach]

Between this and slamming the fee  to buy Lindens into real world money exchange range I wonder why  killing commerce is a good way forward.

P.S. having a Linden click the THANKS button on an official Lab post seems  kinda weird, but that's me , maybe add a "hey don't blame me I argued against this   during meetings" button so we know who to bail out of jail next Fantasy Faire , and who to leave in ......

[Marketplace spring cleaning - an alternate approach]

Linden is pushing the Victorian theme in Bellisseria  and this new rule will remove many items from a classic  period shop of that era  that starts with a N ......where the owner last logged in  in October 2020 [unknown why] ........ sad .....

edited to add "Basically, if they've logged in OR sold something in the last year, their store is untouched." No - items will be removed -- and many items are in collections - so you may want to finish or expand a room later but the matching sideboard or whatever is gone by then  .....

[New furniture for Victorians?]

Noctis shops  in Babbage estate has lots of Victorian era items, owner Yelena Istmal  not in much but items arewell made , some funny.

[The island of Govenor Linden]

Yes I was told 2 people paid $50,000L  each for 6 month tenancy.  Wonderful setting.

[Official Tilia Q&A Forum Thread (Related Questions Only)]

At some point will inactive account balances escheat to the state? Which one?

[Official Tilia Q&A Forum Thread (Related Questions Only)]

9 hours ago, Linden Lab said:

Does this inactivity fee apply to the Lindens I have stored in my account?
No. This fee would only apply to those accounts with USD balances which have not accessed their Tilia account in any way (for example, to check balance) or had any credit processing transactions over a period of 12 months or more.


Just not getting it---if I go to https://id.secondlife.com and look at my dashboard where the USD I uploaded from my credit card into SL to buy Lindens, pay premium, tier  ---does that count as "checking my Tilia account"?

What confuses me is the same/different thing - you have to make a Tilia account but if you aren't going to use it for cashing out it seems abnormal to tell us to monitor "it."   And as Gertrude Stein said "there's no there there" unless her dashboard WAS  her Tilia account TOO.

Is Tilia like Brisbane (suburb of SF, rather a myth in local lore )? You know its there, but you'd be damned if you can ever find it.

If people aren't cashing out why not send them an email every 6 months(to be safe) - "click to see your Tilia account balance." 

Again, unless, just the dashboard is Tilia TOO.

You say paying the annual premium counts to avoid inactivity BUT some of us won't be paying their premium in some case for almost 2 years, depending on renewal date, if we prepaid to avoid the pop from 72 to 99. So we'd go inactive, right?

Finally, where did the name Tilia come from, I'll be at the Brisbane Beach and Boardwalk  awaiting a reply.

 

 

[Tilia takes over]

https://www.coindesk.com/fincen-says-some-dapps-are-subject-to-u-s-money-transmitter-rules

If you REALLY want to know the laws,   click the links and google the terms in above article. Not saying Linden is a dapp but this article had good terms and links.

 

[Tilia takes over]

https://www.theinfatuation.com/minneapolis/reviews/tilia

sing to the Beatles song Rocky Racoon:

Now somewhere in the Linden Hills of Lake Calhoun
There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon
And one day his cash balance  ran off with another guy
Hit young Rocky in the eye
Rocky didn't like that
He said, "I'm gonna get that boy"
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Money transmitters’s bible
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival it seems, had broken his dreams
By stealing the cash  of his fancy
Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy  (because she never verified her identity!)

 

 

 

[Tilia takes over]

I hope7seas makes a 'Tilia the Tilapia'  -then they can try to cash out the new income and tell us how it went......

They'd better make some trailers no owner , no security for squatters ---TiliaTown

[Tilia takes over]

2 hours ago, Linden Lab said:

This fee would only apply to those accounts with USD balances which have not accessed their Tilia account in any way (for example, to check balance) 

 

2 hours ago, drusilladarkwillow said:

You shouldn't be charge a fee as you aren't holding a balance on the Tilia.

Drusilla-   I think USD is USD -- no separate pot of cash so an inactivity fee applies.

BUT I never cash out so won't open Tilia to look at balance      OR   does opening my account on the dashboard where the balance shows enough? 

3 hours ago, Linden Lab said:

or had any credit processing transactions over a period of 12 months or more.

Does this mean no activity= a fee BUT at some point will the USD balance escheat to the state? Which state --California?

 

Linden- I get the money rules you MUST  follow but we need a  board game workflow chart to figure out how check balance - my deposited from outside USD  appears in 2 places right- dashboard and the Tilia -- or is Tilia nested inside the dashboard?

[Tilia takes over]

So to keep "playing" SL I need to accept Tilia  terms and  the account they set up for me and I will be charged an inactivity fee--when I've never cashed out but usually have cash from deposits to my account from credit cards.

Of course my account will be inactive I didn't ask for it. How much will THIS feature cost me on top of higher premium?

Is Grumpity filling her thermos, will she be answering comments 24/7 and then Friday we'll get the final scoop?

WHY wasn't this covered during SLB16?

NOW I know why the next Linden home motif is trailers.

[It really is the number of idle scripts that drags down a sim]

Something weird is going on, was in an event location, 6 avatars total in region, platform at 2500m, 90+ pc scripts running, 10 spare script time, got 30 FPS, my ARC 12k, had 32 m draw, 20,000 and 1 for others complexity.

BUT it was a rubberbanding lag pit. Would freeze , rubber band etc.

My router had been refreshed day before.

So best region numbers I've seen in over a year, terrible performance.Did they recalibrate the region numbers?

[Attn Private Rental Estate Owners-off line Group Notices may be stopping]

Stopping Group Notices from going to email Oz says not sure where on priority list.  TPV group 5/31

at 10:50 on the Youtube clock.

They will be working on improving group behavior  "soon", which is wonderful, but not getting off line group  notices is still not getting offline notices.

 

 

 

[Is there still a reason for not being able to purchase homesteads with no full estate?]

Last time they let people buy stand alone homesteads some people overloaded them HORRIBLY  and since homesteads are berthed -what 16 -to a server a lot of owners complained their new dream home/store was a mud pit.

Many dreams died and great creators/builders left because of this when they had to close up because the tier was raised. It was heartbreaking.

The new homestead owners were 99% existing tier paying residents so it impacted private estate owners-losing large parcel renters.

Standalone homesteads berthed at , say 8 to a server, for a higher tier, would be great, but would still impact private estates.

 

[Deploy Plans for the week that never came]

I just want to know if the regions(and which) will roll, so that if not we can roll them to help with the script issues. Keeping things as crisp as possible for the private estate residents.

hums

"It could happen soon
 I heard them say
 It could happen soon"

[Deploy Plans for the week that never came]

May we get  notice of the plans weekly again? Thank you.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BN0B0Rks8

 

It could happen soon
I heard them say
It could happen soon
But just like yesterday
The ships have come and gone
And we were not along
Oh
Tomorrow never came
I've been here dark till dawn
And still end up the same

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

4 minutes ago, Fyrebird Courier said:

it says setup fee is $349, then monthly is 249.

 

yup 249 +100 = 349.   Point to Ms Linden.

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

I don't understand the "unused groups" idea people are floating  " kill them off , save the bandwidth."

How ever could Linden determine an "unused group"-- are items rezzed under its tag, do people wear that tag, is it used to let friends rez in a Linden home?

We need a sleek new "group" - more like a communication tool - where COMMTOOL allows chat, sends notices that ALWAYS arrive etc.

 

[Attn Private Rental Estate Owners-off line Group Notices may be stopping]

Side footnotes :

https://medium.com/@peacelovetrig/on-the-sexist-etimology-of-hysteria-and-what-academia-did-about-it-ef98815ddb6c

"The American Psychiatric Association did not officially kill ‘hysteria’ as a clinical term until 1980, "

and at time stamp 0:40 seconds ,   from 1995

SOUNDBITE:

Cochran: "We are certainly aren't  going to  yell at your Honor  and become hysterical."

Clark: "...That kind of personal attack is very improper and inappropriate the court knows it was  simply advocacy and I'm not yelling at anyone for Mr. Cochran to make that kind of sexist remark "hysterical " I take great umbrage at it and I think the court should not countenance  that kind of behavior."

Ito: "I don't"

Cochran: "She finished?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE5FBjz_qMM  

Words change meaning or become acknowledged for what they are as time goes on. Just don't change the group notices.

 

[Attn Private Rental Estate Owners-off line Group Notices may be stopping]

On 5/21/2019 at 9:30 AM, Alyona Su said:

I'm really curious how the hell "may" turned into "planned". It's a proposed change. When did "proposal" turn into "planning"? Enough with the hysterics and scare-tactics. At this point that's all this is.

I find your language  rude and  sexist-- "hysterics" is a highly charged word.

Why don't you listen to the TPV meetings. Listen to the words. This issue has been brought up twice. Two TPVs. That's how corporations put users on "notice" of pending changes.

At the time stamp

Oz Linden
“I think ,I think the plan is to try turning them (group notices ) off- that is not forwarding group notices to email, globally at this point because it is the only thing we can do quickly. “

Parse that.

 

[Attn Private Rental Estate Owners-off line Group Notices may be stopping]

9 minutes ago, animats said:

You should be able to subscribe or unsubscribe from forwarding to email on an "all", "group", or "sending resident" basis. Start out at "unsubscribed". 

Where are these choices? They don't exist-- and won't-- so this is not a solution.

The Lab said they will not be adding additional forwarding choices.They want to flip the lever to off line group notices OFF.

So this situation that bothers me will exist.

[Attn Private Rental Estate Owners-off line Group Notices may be stopping]

Last two Third Party Viewer meetings, lead by Oz Linden, have raised the possibility the Lab "may" be stopping GROUP NOTICES GOING TO EMAIL WHEN your residents are off line. The Lab is concerned about their reputation as a spammer when people toss these messages into junk(which the  resident  may do to keep them in a 30 day catch basin vs an immediate delete). Private IMs off line will still deliver if the email address is verified.

I feel private estates , probably more than store groups, will have their communities negatively impacted by the planned non-delivery of off-line group notices.

When the group member logs in- the notice is there (even though ,for some groups I NEVER get my notices in world or off) but if your estate has events , town meetings, releases new land  offerings etc.  a resident would have to get  in world on that account to get the notice. If they don't log in, it is radio silence.

And if, as is common, your residents include an alt(or two) who rarely logs then  the active tenant may not get the notice since it would no longer go to the group member alts email that the active resident can easily monitor .

Oz did say they will be upgrading event listings to help buffer this proposed change  but , my opinion, private estates may not want to post events for the whole grid to see. Winks. 

Source at    listen at  time   stamp  19: 47

If you feel your Private rental estate would be hampered  by no more off line group notices to  your resident group or  the community would be damaged please let Linden know however you Land Baron types let Linden know your wishes.

I'm just a resident of private estates, not an estate owner, but I use group notices off lines ALL THE TIME to get into community events etc. keep current when event times change etc.  Communities are the heart of Second Life, I don't want barriers to us staying in touch, especially when we pay money to rent to be part of a community.

[Gnash teeth, bleed tier HELP]

Thanks for reply, friend had her tier set for 2 full mainland regions, sold both , hadn't downgraded this tier window and Linden made her pay for a month where she owned nothing. They told her , we don't know if you donated it part of the time etc etc .