What have I been doing in OpenSimulator

i'll make my own universe with blackjack and hookers 2025, Jan 11 -- Last updated 2025, Aug 26

Between 2025, Apr 18 and now the most significant thing I've done is switch home grid to OSgrid, as I normally spend most of my time there anyways. I sometimes am lucky and catch text conversations between people in Lbsa Plaza while I'm idling there like the freak I am.

OSGrid are one of the old timers, apparently, having been around since 2007 and initially being a test grid for OpenSimulator server software. They have a system where users can host regions within the OSgrid grid using a specially configured OS server which they provide. I don't think I would get this going soon as i share 'net access with several other housemates and the person who owns the router is wary of my...antics.

For all I know OpenSimulator itself is a server software that basically replicates Second Life via open-source tech, and seems to indeed add "blackjack and hookers" on top of that, most notably the hypergrid system which allows many smaller grids to be linked into one virtual Very Big Grid^TM.

I've never used Meta Horizons, etc. but in comparison I feel strongly that some kind of open standard would win out over anything gabizilionaires come up with, even if not the aging OpenSimulator. I am not sure how, but looking at the Web I think this would be due to, among other things of course, no central "dictator" authority stopping anyone from just making things that work with the system for gratis. man i sound stupid. Homogenization? Resistant against. Moderation? Out the window.....

I use Cool VL Viewer as my main OS viewer.

Problems setting up the server software

It seems that the OpenSimulator server software is architecture-agnostic, which is a godsend for me and my weird-ass ARM64 PC. However, .net or whatever has problems finding sqlite3, the database that the software uses. (For what? I don't know that now.) Again, I had to manualy find the right library and link it to the right spot.

To do this in Debian GNU/Linux or similar would be something along the lines of "find the shared library via dpkg -L libsqlite3-0 | grep so and link it into [opensim parent folder]/bin".

It also seems that you'd need to run dos2unix on [opensim parent folder]/bin/opensim.sh, the actual file you'll need to run to start the server, for it to even be read correctly by Bash. Something about different types of newline between Windows and *nix systems.

Conclusion: I now have a running local OS server to do crap in. Again, I can't open it up to the general internet now, which is disapointing.

If I connect Bluetooth headphones and there's no sound...

For CVLV users or possibly anyone using a Snowglobe-derivative viewer, select Advanced -> Media -> Restart audio engine. Possibly the only useful piece of info I gleaned when compiling these idiot notes.

Worlds.com stuff:

I randomly went onto the Worlds.com subreddit one day and found that there are people recreating the Worlds.com coordinating servers, meaning what I thought was a six feet dead game is actually being slowly exhumed and reanimated. The project is called libreworlds and if you have a copy of the WorldsPlayer client it seems like you can change a few config lines (they would tell you which on their site) to regain at least some (with progressive improvements promised) of the social aspect of Worlds. It seems to be a fairly new project and not exactly production level yet, but as the real Worlds seems to have...joined the darkness.....this seems to be the safest bet if you're a user of Worlds.

I have contemplated porting the default worlds into an OpenSim grid for preservation for some time. However, as the required tool's instructions are very obtuse (Where is NET/worlds/scape????), among other things such as incompatibilities with my ARM64 SBC and the launch of the libreworlds server, this is at this point a very low piority.

Most if not all versions of the WorldsPlayer software above 1900 seem to come with the default worlds.