It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm a reasonably new Linux at a place of trying to learn how to improve/optimise my system, and honestly, Google's Gemini has become my user manual.

If I can't figure something out then I could trawl through a bunch of forums where the issue doesn't really match mine, or the fix has changed since OP had the same problem, or I could just go straight to an LLM. I understand that they have a tendency to make shit up on the fly (this is a great example), but when it comes to troubleshooting setup issues they're really helpful. And yes, I kmow that's because they've already ingested the support forums. But it is genuinely so much quicker to sort things out, while learning as you go.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's made a world of difference to me in my IT support services business. It's not always right, but it's always helpful even when it isn't. It's far better at looking at a page of log information and picking out the one bit that explains why the thing I need to work isn't working. I've been emboldened to do a lot of projects that I was previously uncomfortable with. The key is I know enough about nearly anything that I can tell when im being led down a garden path.

    The quality of the prompt is everything.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's far better at looking at a page of log information and picking out the one bit that explains why the thing I need to work isn't working

    Yes. I can post a terminal output into it and it'll tell me exactly what's not working and why. And that's incredibly valuable.

    Ironically, I used Gemini to help me build a little app that takes a copied YouTube link and uses yt-dlp to download it to my Jellyfin server in a format that'll play nicely on my Apple TV. I can't imagine how I'd approach achieving that if I had to start from scratch.

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