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[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The guys on LTT mentioned this during their Linux challenge, but I’ve found it to be true -

Scouring forums for answers to obscure errors used to take hours. Now I just throw it at Gemini, troubleshoot in real time and find the fix.

I’ve even started asking it to give me a PDF of the steps we took and filing them away for future me.

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like to ask it for a beautiful html page instead of a pdf. PDFs are a pain later on.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Tonight I spent the time spinning up a silverbullet instance and converting the PDFs to .md files. You’re right, PDFs aren’t searchable and will be a pain as the database grows.

Thanks for sharing :)