Erwin Solo
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It's probably cloud migration. They repeatedly say that they move things to the cloud and no one notices.
Are you filling a JIRA? I am not. That means no one is noticing.
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22 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:
You don't HAVE to have money in your $USD Balance to pay for your Premium membership. All you need is a valid payment method on file. When your Premium membership is due for renewal, LL will first look in your $USD Balance. If the balance there is not enough to cover the charge, they'll bill the remainder to your payment method.
However, if you WANT to cover the entire bill through your $USD Balance, you can. There are two ways to do that.
1. Simply sell some $L on the LindEx. The proceeds go to your SUSD Balance. Oh, you don't have enough $L to do that? OK, no problem...
2. Set up a Best Rate (Limit Buy) for enough $L to cover your Premium dues. Let's say you want a yearly plan at $99.00 USD. Make it $110.00 worth of $L, just to be safe. But, and here is the important trick...set the exchange rate that you are offering at a figure so high that the order won't be filled. Say, for example, $L 500 per $1 USD. Place the order. The $110.00 will be taken from your PayPal or credit card immediately. Once you are sure that this transaction has gone through, then go back to My Account > LindEx > Manage, open My $L Order History, and find your open limit buy order. Now, cancel the order. The money will instantly go to your $USD Balance.
Problem solved!
Once you have a US $ balance, you have to agree to the Tilia terms and conditions.
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4 minutes ago, cheesecurd said:
This is ironic, but forums. Board style social interaction with accounts and stats and all that. It promotes something referred to in the context of Reddit as “karma whoring”.
You know that stereotype forum user? Anime profile picture, 20k+ posts, some arbitrary amount of “likes”, has some stupid title under their name and a tag like “platinum contributor”.
I hate those people.
Because what those people do is gain merit and validation based off virtual number counters. If person A asks a question and persons B and C respond, who’s answer is going to be more valid?
Person B who has 20k posts and replies with a low detail wrong answer, or person C who has 10 posts but posts an accurate and explainative answer?
Person B, always. People value those internet points.
This is why anonymous forums and boards are so popular, everyone is on even grounds. You have no virtual points to value and it does not reflect your statements validities or usefulness. If you say something wrong, there is no other aspect that would potentially convince people you are right.
The current metrics are counterproductive, in my opinion, in that they reward what I view as frivolous posting.
In my opinion, one of the greatest contributors to these forums was @Void Singer who hasn't been on in nearly two years. They had most of their activity before the implementation of the current metrics system. Maybe I should spend a day some time and go back and "like" several of their well-deserving posts that predate the current "like" system. They taught me so much about scripting; I just read back then as I wasn't then at a scripting skill-level where I had much to offer by posting. The same goes for @Dora Gustafson ; they are still around, and have made incredible contributions over time, but you wouldn't know it by looking at their "like" statistics, because they were so active for so long before the current "like" system kicked in.
My current interest is in creation. I came over here to the People forum to get my post count up. I figured if ya can't beat 'em join 'em,. Now I find it addictive, and reasonably fun as long as one can refrain from engaging in the debates about real-life social issues (there are other boards for that, if one is into it). I could work half a day on a quality LSL Library contribution--just doing publication clean-up on scripting work that I'd already done--and get nothing. Over here, you can play one of the word games and get likes out the wazoo. The Avatar Picture sub-forum seems to be even more of a 'likefest.'
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What’s a last name you would choose for yourself? We’ll soon hold a contest seeking your contributions to the pool of last name options. From all of the suggestions, we’ll pick five, and those five lucky Residents will be able to change their names completely free of charge!
So, there will be at least five last names to chose from. The sentence doesn't say that it will be only five, but does commit to at least five.
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Nowadays we get are subject to getting a new (virtual/real) processor-assignment every time we restart our SIMs. Restarting your SIM might get you a new (virtual/real) processor-assignment, but not necessarily. The behavior is much like most home internet services in that restarting your router might get you a new IP address, but not necessarily.
So, sometimes you get unlucky when you restart your SIM, and sometimes you get lucky when you restart it again.
As LL moves services to the cloud, I expect variability to decrease. The cloud service provider is very good at giving exactly the level-of-service for which one pays--which could be mediocre or outstanding, depending on the decisions of the entity paying the cloud service provider.
Perhaps that's what we're seeing. I notice it too.
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5 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:43 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Pipedream: Premium Plus will allow you to connect your Alts, and share no-transfer items between them.
I fixed that for you. You're welcome. ~chortles~
Yeah, it would create a permissions-system that would be too easy to game.
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22 minutes ago, Profaitchikenz Haiku said:
I hate to add yet another thread about Tilia, but I've just spent a long time searching the knowledge base and googling, to no avail.
I never process credit so I have assumed I didn't need to go through the Tilia who-am-I process.
My premium renewal falls due in about a week. I want to add enough US$ to the account so it is there ready and waiting. Only, I can't find any details to put into my Paypal account to send such money.
Previously I have waited until the "there is a problem with your account" warning and from there, gone to the US$ account, got the requisite payee details, gone to Paypal, entered them, and all has proceeded smoothly.
Do I have to wait yet again until I'm past due and get the warning message to then be able to set up Paypal to make the transfer?
The billing help page I studied does not mention any other payee except SecondLife, do I need to somehow add the new name or will the SecondLife Payee still operate?
What have other premium members who like me never process credit and just pay for services done?
There is no longer any way for you to add a US$ balance from out-world financial instruments. That change predates Tilia. There's also no way to prepay your renewal, generally speaking, though earlier in the year prepaying was enabled as a special promotion.
The only way to get a US$ balance is to sell L$ on the exchange. Once you have a US$ balance, you'll have to agree to the Tila terms and conditions.
The system is designed for people who leave payment info on file. If you don't want to leave payment info on file for more than a few seconds a year while you renew, that's not a Tila issue.
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I think its great that LL is monetizing things other than just land. Its pretty easy for someone interested in roleplay to chew up a lot of resources in the game while technically "homeless," but richly well-dressed. There needs to be, and of late there is, a way to get them to contribute to the cost of running the world.
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On 11/21/2019 at 2:36 AM, Mollymews said:
wonders what they gunna do with all the plebs like me who only joined recently so to give a L$50 wedding present to the person getting married for no reason other than to say thanks, an appreciation for the happiness that other people sometimes found there
i only ever went to that Franks once before. When it first opened they had an open day - allow access anyone. Was quite a interesting build back then, I quite liked the galleries. No idea what it looks today tho
pleb in the sense that I only have one formal gown these days
Oh, I would imagine the L$50 discounts were designed to entice frequenters of the other Frank's clubs to become Elite. Larger group size is attractive to potential buyers.
I know the elite group was already huge, but suspect like most old groups like that that only 25% of the membership had logged-in within 2019. The discount drove active players to the group.
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10 hours ago, Gregorian Chant said:
There was a monthly fee of 1K? Pffft, I could outfit an army of alts in full mesh for that kind of money. 😂
The L$500 I paid in the dark ages gave you group membership, and that was permanent. No more fees. The new owner? Who knows?
Back then Franks was running a half-dozen SIMs and only charging a one-off fee for on of those: Franks Elite.
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On 10/9/2019 at 7:31 AM, Skell Dagger said:
I am not a CSR for a "skin supplier". I'm a CSR for a mesh head creator. And - since BOM was released - I and my four fellow CSRs have spent *hours and hours* explaining *over and over* in our support group what BOM is, how it works, how to use it on their specific mesh body (remember: we're mesh head support, not mesh body), etc, ad nauseam. I have written a long beginners' guide tutorial post on my blog about using BOM (Firestorm linked to that post on their changelog page for the BOM viewer download), and I'm currently working on an even more simplified "Dummies Guide"- style post about it because so many people are failing to grasp even the absolute basics.
I was inworld for about three hours last night, and for almost the entirety of that time I and my fellow CSRs were answering only BOM questions. I got nothing else done that I'd intended to do.
So yeah, tough luck on me, and I guess I shouldn't express even the smallest amount of frustration about how much additional work this has caused me?
Well, in my SL, I find that people absolutely refuse to read anything unless its personally typed into their IMs. They won't read NCs or Web Pages, or watch videos.
So, for me the ideal guide is a NC, because I can copy/paste from my NCs to IMs.
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You're getting good advice, but if you want to learn more broadly than just making this script work, you might visit Jopsy Pendragon's Particle Laboratory. Follow the huge purple arrow and take the hot air balloon from landing point http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Teal/182/75/22
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Rolig and Kyrah's answers are better than mine, but if the need is limited to you and your friends, a quick fix might be to use Firestorm's stop-at-region crossing feature. Type these keywords in your favorite internet search engine: Movement region crossing Firestorm Predict Original behavior Stop Experimental option
If you're scripting your own, you use the "changed" event (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Changed) to detect a region crossing, but you still have to figure out what your script to do once you've detected the region crossing.
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On 11/17/2019 at 11:48 PM, PhilGalaxi said:
In the control script for the bike itself, I replaced the line
LLGetOwnr
with llDetectedKey(0)
but still I am only one who can drive unless I actually transfer the bike to someone via share/IMSearch your script for additional calls to llGetOwner(). If I were a betting man, I'd bet you have more llGetOwner() calls hiding in your script somewhere.
Wulfie and KT's answers are more pedagogically sound than mine. I'm just offering a betting man's chance at a quick fix. -
TLDR: Many of the current generation RP'ers nowadays don't project their selves onto their RP avatars. If they disappear, it doesn't mean they are dead. They sometimes pop up again in two to four years.
In Role Play (RP) communities, there are getting to be fewer and fewer people who maintain an avatar that you can get to know. Most RP'er run a half dozen or more alts. The typical pattern is to dust off an RP avatar that hasn't roleplayed in a while. They choose an avatar that used to play on a SIM that's long-since closed when they start playing in any particular RP SIM.
They continue to use that avatar for just one RP SIM. They log on with a different avatar to be human on earth--to go out dancing or clubbing, for example. They maintain still other avatars distinctly for each RP SIM in which they participate. If they get tired of the RP on that SIM, they simply never log that avatar in again (other than momentarily to transfer L$ stipend or place inventory).
It's not that uncommon for someone to IM me and say, 'hey, I'm XYZ you knew from PDQ, which they then confirm by sending an IM from XYZ saying the same thing.
I remember RP'ing with someone who told me, 'I've got plenty of friends on my non-RP avatar, but you can't have friends in RP.'
I have about 1500 avatars on my friends-list, with about 10% of that logged in at any time. About 15% of those 1500, I know well enough to consider them to be "real people." The rest seem to be just RP alts used in the way described above.
I've got a newish group with about 750 avatars in it, and most have logged in at least once in the past few months. I'm a moderator on a couple of groups with couple-of-thousand avatars, and about a third have not logged in within the last year. Some haven't logged in for years (like 3-to-5 years).
Point being: Many of the current generation RP'ers nowadays don't project their selves onto their RP avatars. If they disappear, it doesn't mean they are dead. They sometimes pop up again in 2 to four years on a new SIM in a new role.
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On 11/20/2019 at 2:11 AM, Drayke Newall said:
No not in the inventory but in the library (Linden Lab Library folder) section of the inventory of which any current or older avatars are available no matter whether you have used them or not. It also includes the default male and ruth avatars to use.
If one keyword-searches one's inventory, one get search-hits in the library, but yeah technically the Library folder is a parallel folder at the same level and the Inventory folder.
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6 hours ago, Drayke Newall said:
Not sure if it is around anymore, but I recall that there was a script once that could be placed in an object that would give you the UUID of the texture in the object when clicked. If this script is still available wouldn't this generally give the same false notion to users?
In ancient times, one could do so. "On 5/15/2005 (give or take a day) llGetTexture was changed to check the host object's permissions and if inadequate return NULL_KEY."
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Price is now L$1000. It was L$500 way back in the dark ages when I joined. Group notice says that Franks Elite is now transferred to the Avatar that previously owned the SIM in 2009. I don't feel comfortable posting it all here, but if you are a member, check the notices in the group before they age out. Group URI is:
secondlife:///app/group/9b29d415-b79a-5c2e-e5ef-ca375de6aff6/about
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On 10/6/2019 at 9:55 PM, CoffeeDujour said:
To really labor the point ... ripping textures via the standard tools available inside SL is akin to bunny hopping over the gate on a unicycle and ignoring that the gate, while present, isn't even locked.
I second that. Ripping textures is wrong, just like copy/pasting IMs, and both have the comparable level of technology protection in the viewers.
Is someone going to become concerned that we can copy text out of no-copy/no-mod notecards?
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46 minutes ago, Drayke Newall said:
I thought they were as well (alongside the default body options) as they are still accessible in the library (well at least they are in mine nicely labeled mesh, though maybe I'm a special case and have a bugged library), but got shot down in another thread from Theresa saying they weren't (which is why she arrogantly responded to my post like she did). I even made an alt last year with the lab created mesh body (the riding horse one). I just can't be bothered arguing with her though so just never responded to her.
They are in your inventory because you used them once. For people who have not used them, they are still accessible via the main-menu "Avatar" and therein select "Choose an Avatar". Whichever you choose, will be placed in your inventory. There is also a toolbar button that you can add to do this from the toolbar.
Linden Viewer: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_3_menus
Firestorm: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/avatar
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On 11/18/2019 at 1:26 PM, Orwar said:
But I do find it very strange, with that 'equality' in mind, how misandry is socially acceptable and often encouraged, whilst the mere accusation of misogyny may cost you your job, your livelihood, and in extent, your home and life. How can there be equality or even democracy, when people are cut down for voicing an opinion?
Strange, yes. Equality it is not, but rather the opposite.
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2 hours ago, Glovercali said:
it's sooo hard finding things! Any suggestions [stores and/creators] would be awesome.
I recommend you look up @daiz Papp
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If you had payment info on file, sometimes they'll take a scanned photo of a government ID. I once cancelled an account that had over 1000 friends on the list, and was unable to answer their friends questions, but I got it back by answering questions about my payment info on file.
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2 hours ago, moongal721 said:
As for my budget I am setting my max limit to $3,000. I am saving now and it wont be until next year when I can get a new laptop. For now I am doing research.
Thank you all for your input! I will be thoroughly researching everything
I recommend pasting these words into your favorite internet search engine as part of your research.
How to Buy the Right Gaming Laptop A Guide for 2019 tomshardware
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What are some of your pet peeves?
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Posted · Edited by Erwin Solo
Notice the heading of this forum:
"General Discussion Forum
Second Life discussions welcome here! Please follow the community guidelines"
I notice from time to time that some of the most voluminous topics herein have nothing to do with Second Life. I rather regret the time I have wasted in such topics.
Maybe we should have a non-SL forum to which we can move discussions that have nothing to do with SL.