Perrie Juran

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/

I think it would do good for people to read this overview of security in SL from Linden Lab. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Technical_overview_of_Second_Life_security

LOD of 6??????????????? I think you need to learn what LOD is and how it works. And quite frankly, anything that requires a LOD setting over 3 in order to render correctly is nothing but pure garbage that needs sent to the Gehenna and the creator banned to the corn field until they learn how to properly create mesh objects.

While revaluing the Linden Dollar might improve peoples realization of the value of goods and services I fear the horse may be too far out of the barn. How would you apply it to the Market Place? And the monumental task of Merchants having to reprice everything in their stores, redoing hundreds and thousands of images. And I would question tying the value of the $L to bitcoin. They are just too volatile. And on a bit of a side note, the way Phillip Rosedale set up the Lindex has been a boon for all of us because $L function as a currency and not a commodity. I do agree people have to get a better appreciation of the value of the goods and services in SL.

For riding I find the Waterhorse to be much smoother.

I had a goal to keep my inventory under 20,000 items. Then it changed to 30,000. Then 40,000 followed by 50,000 followed now by "I give up." The one saving factor is I have managed to keep my inventory well organized.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask this question in the Scripting sub forum. https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/304-lsl-scripting/

Tripp, no. Would be nice but has never been possible.