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Could not this Spangle situation be addressed by the parcel owner?

Great tip! The map you use is the World Map. Make sure you do a single left-click (at least in Firestorm). Double-click will teleport you. Everyone has their preferences, but if I were doing this, I would TP to the region first to see where I would want to live if all were available, then I would use the World Map to check availibility.

As Azure says, bonniebots may help but realize they are not updated in real time so there is no guarantee that a house that appears available on the map is still available. You can monitor https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/444422-beautiful-abandons/ to see what people are saying is available. You can find a region you like and monitor it. If you see a house with no furniture or other things rezzed, step in the parcel and check to see if it is Linden owned.

Voila! The Boat Bars of Dashaway and Kermits Green (underwater).

This is a nice analysis, thank you. Getting to the bottom of why this is the case would be interesting. Given that Second Life doesn't "amount to a hill of beans in this crazy [virtual] world", it may be that the incoming pipeline of noobs wanting to make the leap to land ownership is small. And the number of long-time residents fed up with mainland annoyances is large. So the scales are tipped.

You would be unwise to use any opinion expressed in this forum as a green light for such an action. The question of "rights" is a legal issue. You should seek appropriate legal council.

I tried Norton Secure VPN just now and it worked OK with Second Life. Any VPN could have a security breach so the best you can do is read up on the services available and make an informed decision.

If a resident is only interested in the land aspects of membership, 3 Premium memberships (all contributing to a single land group) is a better value (yearly net stipend) than one P+ membership, as the former has 3072 sqm of included tier rather than the 2048 sqm of P+. As I see it, P+ is only "worth it" if you value the non-land perks, such as unlimited texture uploads or picking your Linden Home. I have always thought that the whole point of Bellisseria was to increase the number of paying residents by making it super easy to acquire an inworld home (and to protect the new home owner from annoying neighbors). Because people have preferences, it is important to have variety with respect to home options. It may be that the 2048 sqm parcel with a new (ranch?) theme is simply another example of variety, similar to the expensive bottle of wine on a wine list that serves as an anchor to make the other wines more attractive. Enhancements in Bellisserria that increase the value* of existing themes may NEVER happen, as these would not contribute to the goal of converting Basic residents to paying residents. Perhaps this is the real reason we will never see options like a houseboat on a 2048 parcel. Linden Lab will always say, if you want that, make it yourself on mainland. * The Traditionals did get open floorplans and the Houseboats did get additional options, but personally, I have not used these enhancements and assign them minimal value. You may love these additions, which is great.

I have not noticed a problem opening profiles inworld. Is that where you are having a problem? If the issue persists, contact support and provide details.

Yes LL could have come up with a way to give P+ residents more LI months ago but they didn’t. It is frustrating. Unfortunately they are committed to a single P+ theme on 2048 sqm parcels as the only option.

You CAN put up a skybox, either on the mainland parcel you purchase or even over a Linden Home if you get one of those someday. A parcel owner can build upto approximately 4000 meters.

Sorry about not mentioning that the approved way of getting support for land issues is by filing a support ticket. But still wanna give a shout out to Wendi because she does a great job of handling land issues.

Apologies if I got this wrong due to only spending a total of 15 minutes in Sansar, but I always understood that the big problem they were trying to crack was scalability.... allowing an arbitrarily large number of avatars to be at an event. The solution was to clone the event many times so that a subset of the event goers were in each clone. Consequently, there was no world map and no going from point A to point B inworld. Accordingly, no need for traveling in vehicles as the way you moved around was teleporting. So water is decorative. Can't believe I stayed there even 15 minutes.

Few bits of game of homes advice. 1. to get a stilt that is guaranteed to have rezzable water, pick stilt on pier or stilt on water. You have to be very lucky to get a stilt on land that has water. 2. The 5 picks work like this… each pick has a 24 hour timer. So when you use a pick, it is 24 hours before you can use it again. Each pick is independent of the others. If you use all your picks between 11 pm and midnight, you do not get them all restored at midnight when the day changes. Rather, each pick is restored 24 hours after it was used. 3. bonniebots linden homes maps are not updated in real time so you may see a house showing available when it is not 4. for popular homes, pay attention to when new regions are released as that is your best chance of landing a choice Home. It is worthwhile practicing selecting/abandoning homes so that you don’t waste time when new regions are released

Copy that. This particular lake is not quite that big, however, there are other bodies of water in "The Pickle" that have the same issue.

I would replace that lake with fake Linden water. My favorite is Edo Freshwater from Konoha. You can see some in my koi pond here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Airashii Mogura/161/15/34 The lake appears to be decorative so this could work. I used this water to fill a double wide parcel at SL19B and it looked great.

I rewatched the Lab Gab and wrote down exactly what was said about mobile... Grumpity Mojo Patch I wonder how this will play out over the coming years. Here are some guesses... 1. The mobile viewer attempts to capture all the tethered viewer functionality, recast in a mobile UI. The comments of Grumpity, Mojo, and Patch suggest this as an initial offering. 2. The mobile viewer is a subset of tethered viewer functionality. The main purpose is to facilitate "onboarding" and the expectation is that there will be migration to the tethered viewer for things like serious building. 3. The mobile viewer is a subset but inworld experiences are adapted so as to optimize the mobile viewer experience. For example, vehicles are upgraded to work well with a mobile UI. New inworld games are developed. 4. The mobile viewer enables functionality and Linden Lab policies that do not currently exist... new ways of monetizing Second Life and new commercial opportunities... the metaverse. I hope that Brad Oberwager is asked about the mobile viewer at SL20B. He has the power, yanno.

Here's the thing. All we got today, I think, is a demo of a viewer running on a mobile device and rendering some scenes from Second Life, perhaps using existing server protocols. Nobody said anything about "what they claim they want a mobile viewer to be capable of ". I suspect that they DO NOT have an objective of recreating the current viewer on a mobile device. Rather, I hope they are going after something completely different that does not present a high barrier of entry due to complexity. Something that is not a continuation of the sandbox game. What would this new thing be?

The first part of this Lab Gab is a promo video for Linden Lab's effort, begun in October 2022, to develop an iOs and Android Unity-based viewer. Mojo says there is much more work to do but it appears to be an excellent start. Usually, we wander around in the weeds but the question for this particular topic is "the big picture". Pretend that you own Linden Lab and want to make money... what would you like to see happen? The "sandbox-game-that-runs-on-gaming-computers" may (or may not) have positive cash flow and may (or may not) have stalled resident growth. Is there a game changer? Consider this speculation (keyword is speculation). Is Linden Lab developing a capability that gives either the Lab or a new owner the option of novel business opportunities. By novel, I mean not the current SL situation., which is a free or subscription-based sandbox game with practically zero connection to real world commerce and a suppression of advertising. Imagine SL now split into the tethered-world and the mobile-world. The tethered-world is for creators. The mobile-world is for real world consumers, anyone with a mobile device (that meets h/w requirements). The barrier to entry for mobile world is very small with an obvious UI. You download the app, sign up, and off you go with your NUX avatar. You don't need a linden home or inventory or buildy things like that. All you get is attachments for your NUX. And your primary activity is BUYING stuff that gets delivered to you in the real world (powered by Tilia). Is Linden Lab back in the metaverse sweepstakes?

Stawberry (my fave) asked Grumpity why she changed from her "stick figure". Grumpity said a bunch of words that came down to "didn't like the way attachments attached to the stick figure" and "thought it would be cool to be a human" and "but I am slowly adding back the stick figure attachments". Update: Went back and rewatched, noticed the first response Grumpity gave was "time to grow up and mature". Earlier during introductions, she mentioned that she "had no power but is responsible for a bunch of things". She also said it is "crazy and ridiculous" that she has been with Linden Lab for 13 years. Speculation: When Grumpity says "has no power", I suggest that means that in a privately owned business such as LL, the owner ultimately has ALL the power. Within her sphere, she has power. Note that the Lab Gab title places her name first and in the photo, she is flanked by Mojo and Patch.

try contacting @Wendi Linden

The solution would be to redo the lake in the middle of the region and lower the water level to the standard 20m. I did notice that draw distance does effect the anomaly, which occurs because regions beyond the draw distance are filled in with water, using the water elevation of the region you are in. So if you TP to the lake in Hammond Park with dd of 128, you see the anomaly. If you then reset your dd to 1024, the anomaly persists but moves away from you.

In the days before blitzscaling, "financial growth or death" was a law of business. Linden Lab is a mystery in that it appears to have NOT grown for over a decade. As they are private, we have little info on what is really going on... Waterfield Group (the owners) perhaps see Linden Lab as a (temporary) cash cow while they build a business with Tilia. This suggests that everyone at Linden Lab is on budget. Reducing expenses and improving productivity are priorities. If Governance takes action on an AR or support fixes a problem, be grateful. Sid has described Lab Gab as "nothing more than an advertorial". Spot on. However, Lab Gab DOES PROVIDE useful information. Patch, Grumpity, and Mojo collectively form the operational head of Linden Lab... what in a normal (public) company would be the CEO. Lab Gab shows us what they desire to have us know. We will hear their voices and observe their interactions, so that might inform on their emotions and perhaps, priorities.

my two cents... 1. For most of us, we should only do things in SL that bring us joy. You should be doing photography because you enjoy it. 2. There are only two people you need to please, yourself and your client, should you have one. 3. An image should stand on its own merits. How it was made or how long it took to make it is mostly irrelevant. 4. Edit, edit, and edit. NEVER exhibit anything that is not your best work. 5. Try not to care about arbitrary social media metrics. Never enter photo competitions. 6. Find current and historic photographers that resonate with you and study their work. For example, I found William Eggleston to be very influencing.

I asked "Why did Grumpity change her avatar"? (hey, this is a legit question, enquiring minds want to know... I changed my avatar, head actually, last year simply to have access to more makeup, so there)