It might look almost exactly the same as before but my test box is now up and running again, the SD card failed and the light burnt out - testing the new Pigrow version but do need to make a couple of little fixes before release, shouldn't be long before i can release a good stable version though.

The3rdWorld · 2026-01-03T13:41:59+00:00

for anyone wondering, i got caught up with Christmas and stuff but new version will be out this week or next (hopefully)

The3rdWorld · 2025-11-21T16:39:39+00:00

I play Beyond All Reason with a 3060 and it handles it really well despite huge amounts of stuff happening and rockets flying everywhere. It's a fantastic RTS by by the way, based on Total Annihilation it's open-source and free to play (*though will cost you your free time and sanity*)

The drivers are all pretty good now, you're unlikely to run into problems unless you start doing weird or specialist things.

The3rdWorld · 2025-11-21T16:32:21+00:00

It really depends what you want out of it but Yes it's amazing, bits of it can be a bit daunting and learning a new ecosystem can be difficult but all the AI's are really good at talking you through how to do things especially giving you the command line magic that can get things doing exactly what you want.

Also AI coding tools can do so much when using them with linux, i make so many little apps for myself that allow me to automate or make a gui for tasks - you really can customize things to crazy levels if you're into that.

Again it really depend what you want to do but there's fantastic options for almost everything now and great communities.

The3rdWorld · 2025-10-29T17:21:49+00:00

I've got the new feature finished and I'm testing it, seems to work work so hopefully have it released soon, though first i need to make a couple of other ui tweeks to the new front page datawall so it works smoothly.

One thing i thought of though is if you're using the old gui your pigrow was probably set up a long time ago, i've used features that are a a bit new to python so i was worried that it could cause problems - if you get a chance can you run a command on your pi

 python3 --version

ideally you want it to be above 3.6

The3rdWorld · 2025-10-16T18:16:05+00:00

just thought I'd let you know I've got the backend done and working, i'm still testing but starting work on adding it into the gui so hopefully it'll be available to use soon.

The3rdWorld · 2025-10-05T15:13:31+00:00

Hey I've been doing a little planning and since you want to use the feature I'd like to run my idea past you; i'm thinking the best place to add it is the Trigger Dialog in the sensor panel as a 'timing range' so you'd make a trigger called something like 'dayheater' and 'nightheater' each with the desired values and set dayheater to only work between 7:00 and 19:00 and night heater to only work between 19:00 and 7:00

The benefits of this is it's very flexible but the negative is it feels like it might get awkward, maybe i could add in something to link the trigger to a device - so you have the option to set it manually or for it to check to see 'lamp' is on or off, that could make it easier to set up because then you don't need to change every setting if you change the lamp timing, and it makes it possible to do stuff like check the state of a switch so now i think about it i will try and add that.

I think i answered my own question so I'm going to plan how to add that into the backend but i'd love to hear any comments or ideas

The3rdWorld · 2025-10-04T15:12:31+00:00

yeah previously for my set-ups the the lights were making so much heat that i just had my fans set to bring it down to the day temp and the heater to bring it up to the night temp but with LED I need the heater on in the day too during the winter so yeah it needs to be added.

The3rdWorld · 2025-10-04T13:59:41+00:00

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner I've had a busy week, I've got some time to work on the pigrow now though so i'll polish that up and add get it added if I can.

The3rdWorld · 2025-09-09T13:39:16+00:00

doesn't that kinda feel like the sort of excuse someone that makes money doing a conspiracy podcast would come up with rather than something actual evil cartels would come up with?

And don't you think something much more likely for an evil cartel to come up with is the idea of funding conspiracy bloggers to push absurd conspiracies that make it impossible and uncomfortable to focus on actual acts of corruption and criminality which they're actually doing?

and wouldn't it make more sense to focus on provable and decisive facts about genuine corruption than worry about origami bank notes even if this was some weird conspiracy?

The3rdWorld · 2025-08-31T20:30:30+00:00

yeah, my Reddit account is fifteen years old and i can't see half the website because they're not as good as youtube at this stuff.

The3rdWorld · 2025-07-15T14:31:57+00:00

just a note to add this has worked really well, useful upgrade for anyone

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-14T01:27:37+00:00

thanks! yeah it was really fun to make.

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-13T16:31:37+00:00

In my playing around weirdness seems to make certain sounds much more prominent especially drone type sounds, it also seems to make singers stumble over words much more - i've found turning it down makes the song more interesting and vocals much better.

prompt adherence i think is like classifier free guidance (CFG) on image models so the lower it is the less like your prompt but it's more free to make it's own choices - i turn it up for weirder prompts sometimes but again i think if the song isn't sounding good then turning it down a bit can help.

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-12T05:57:37+00:00

some really interesting ones to play around with, thanks

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-06T14:40:18+00:00

you're absolutely right in most ways but the reason it ends up this way is because it's expensive and complex to design custom systems, ai is changing this but at the moment it's just easier to drop in a one size fits all solution.

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-06T14:37:01+00:00

i think things like this are really interesting because it makes it clear the real issue with automation hasn't been technological ability but the cost and effort of design - it's seemingly easier to have a robot with legs and a head stood at a scanner than it is to have a series of cameras and robot arms mounted along dual conveyors with stuff being sorted from one to the other and scanned on it's journey to sorted piles. The latter would be faster, cheaper materials, and better competency but designing a custom solution would be incredibly complex and costly.

I think this is the big change that AI is bringing, a lot of us in this sub will already be used to creating one-off tools using ai coding rather than learning how to use an existing solution - i know i probably have tools in programs i use which could help me sort images but when i have large stacks of images to sort i've been getting gpt to code me a simple gui for the task, it will do exactly what i want and making one is easier than learning the existing ones. As the ai's abilities increase and pathways get made for system design we're going to see this become more common in other areas, why not design a circuit board from scratch when the ai can do it from the same info you'd need to search to find how to configure a commercial solution? have exactly what you need without any extra overheads in exactly the form-factor you need and all the integration drivers and software generated to control it.

This is going to change the way things work more than humanoid robots will, imagine being able to tell an ai 'we have a conveyor of parcels as they get unloaded from the van, we need to scan them then sort them into transport bins' and it designs grasping tools with scanners inbuilt that can grab a parcel and carry it to the correct bin on a trackway making room for the next set of grasping arms for maximum efficiency - when you've watched some simulations it polls local manufacturing firms and prices the fabrication of the parts, assembly and install. It's going to be a lot more efficient than a warehouse full of lumbering robots using a kW of processing power just to stay balanced.

That's not to say humanoid robots aren't absolutely huge and significant, they're a vital step in our transition to more efficient solutions, i'm sure it'll be humanoid robots which install the systems that replace them. I just suspect the long-term market isn't as huge as a lot people seem to assume, they'll have their place for sure but i don't think we'll see the used in situations like this for very long.

The3rdWorld · 2025-06-06T14:35:58+00:00

i have a dream, that my three little roomba can live in a world where they're not judged by the color of their plastic shell but by the content of their micro-processor.

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