3rd Rock Grid : The Great Central Lake : August 2023 update

 By Avatar JayR Cela

    I have been working on this project in 3rd Rock, the OpenSim grid, for about 8 years or longer, all that time I have been trying to recreate a conglomeration of some of the many wondrous places I was able to visit and explore across the USA in my youth.  I have to admit that I enjoy the beauty of nature, especially lakes and rivers, creeks and so on. I also enjoy boating, especially power boats and other high performance watercraft. 

    The problem is I can not afford any sort of life other than the one I have, fixed income, low rent subsidised apartment, and it is not to bad, I have nothing to complain about. So I wanted to create my fantasy world. I have been gradually working on this project, and I doubt if it will ever end.

    I want to honor a deceased friend and one of the founders of 3rd Rock Grid, and the Great Central Lake 

Zinnia Frenzy : may she RIP

    Without her similar vision to mine, this project would have never become the project is becoming.  Also thanks to Dolfke Barbosa, Thoria Millgrove, Kira Tiponi, and way to many other people to list here, also special thanks to Emerson Ronas, and Light Sprite. So I say thank you everyone for contributing your ideas and making available so many free building assets.

      I am just waiting to show off -  share some pictures of the recently completed North East shore lines, with special thanks to all of the other friends I have met over the years, and now, I invite you for a look at the pictures and a visit.

    There are many full perm assets available.

JayR Cela :_)

grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

grid.3rdrockgrid.com:8002:Great Central Lake

 

Open Sim : Firestorm Viewer : Linux : Voice : and the Flatpak installation BLOCKED ! Updated mid September 2023

 By Avatar JayR Cela

Article Update : mid September 2023 the link is working properly again too install the latest available viewer.

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     I don't get riled up very often about much of anything, however sometimes I do get a bit pissed off at narrow minded idiotic reactions to people just trying to use some OPEN SOURCE software in order to actually be able to use the Voice function while using the FireStorm virtual world viewer software while in a Linux desktop environment

    A bit of a background, several years ago the company that supplies the Vivox voice services made a decision to no longer support the Linux platform. This resulted in the loss of the Voice feature in OpenSim and SecondLife for all Linux users.

    This problem was able to be solved by using the Wine  https://www.winehq.org/ Windows programs  compatibility layer to run native Windows based programs while using your Linux desktop, and for the most part it works well. 

    There are a number of questionable issues that are of concern, this Flatpak, that is no longer working will download several window manager packages that are no longer supported and labeled so, at this point things get kinda weird, and it depends on which fork of the FireStorm project you download and use.

    It seems to me that the Flathub Firestorm download is currently not only Broken it is : FORBIDDEN

─ $ ▶ flatpak update

Looking for updates…

        ID                                  Branch Op Remote  Download

 1. [✗] org.firestormviewer.FirestormViewer stable u  flathub 1.0 kB / 168.3 MB

Error: While downloading https://downloads.firestormviewer.org/linux/Phoenix-FirestormOS-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xz: Server returned status 403: Forbidden

Updates complete.

error: There were one or more errors

jayr @ action1  ~

└─ $ ▶ 

   What pisses me off is, I can not use Voice while using a Linux based computer, without the ridiculous workaround of installing WINE in order to have it function properly.

I guess that the Firestorm team is following Redhat when they will no longer allow access to the source code.

   This is just DUMB....

Jessica Lyon / please help us.

Article Update : mid September 2023 the link is working properly again too install the latest available viewer.

Open Sim supposed friends who scam you,or were they just in over their head bragging?

 By Avatar JayR Cela    

    I really needed to relax before I finally decided to post this. Yes my home grid, the one I consider home after being a resident for 12 years was ripped off by two people, one of them who was a long time trusted resident. I guess we should have known better that when you meet a know it all wind bag, you need to watch out before paying them any type of real currency to do a job they were not qualified to undertake in the first place, so shame on us. I will not be publishing the names of the persons involved or my home grids name. 

JayR :_(

    

Open Sim : Hypergrid : Scam Artists and Con Men : What do you do?

By Avatar AjayR Cela

     This is a subject I really thought I would never have to bring up here in Open Sim. I am talking about people that perpetuate a persona of them actually believing they are the Master Guru in OS and He or She possess's such vast amounts of knowledge in the Open Sim Universe, no one can compare.

      Or is this person a con artist ?

    The best part is when they sell you their non-existence services, and once they make numerous excuses, for why things are not working you are left holding the bag.

    These are scams.

I am about to expose a major one.