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I use it a lot for Linux administration, troubleshooting, and scripting as well as some programming. I've only recently started using GPT4 and the API so I've o
by akiselev 4y ago
I use it a lot for Linux administration, troubleshooting, and scripting as well as some programming. I've only recently started using GPT4 and the API so I've only been using the chat interface so far. Examples of some stuff I've asked it just today:
- Asked which config files handled sleep mode when lid is closed and kept fixing it and asking for more possible locations until it fixed my issue (going into sleep during boot before user login if laptop is closed even with externals)
- Asked for a list of KDE config files I should track in git
- Copy pasted a list of ~/.config files and directories and asked ChatGpt for descriptions. Used those for commit messages to build up the initial dotfiles repo for KDE plasma and a whole bunch of other stuff that would have taken hours
- Asked it how to write a bunch of journalctl queries
- Queried it about some log lines I've been seeing in journalctl and had it guide me through troubleshooting using some terminal commands it came up with. Turned out to be a problem with nvidia-drm.modeset in kernel configs
- Asked it to guide me through a dozen awesomeWM customizations ranging from new code from text descriptions to edit suggestions to fix bugs in behavior I've described. Stuff like custom if/else trees handling setup specific scenarios (logic for clamshell open and closed with one or more externals connected by ID) are a breeze.
- Asked it for tips on how to use awesomeWM best and which keybindings to customize
- Code up the message passing from a firefox extension to a native Rust CLI (like the 1password extension) that uses remoc to pass through messages from all tabs to a single daemon over platform specific interprocess communication
AKA Google is fucked.
- inciampati 4y agoIt's amazing for system administration tasks like this. A few weeks ago I used it to install about 25 SSDs in the course of an hour. I was able to build up a one liner that let me figure out which discs were recently added and had not been formatted or mounted anywhere. It helped me do this really, really fast.
- 000ooo000 4y ago>Google is fucked The last year or two have proved to me that they deserve it. Their search engine is utter dogshit now. Ultra commercialised, full of ads, so hard to find a result that is actually what I searched for. Guess that's what Google level greed will do.
- snorkel 4y agoAgree. Try looking up travel passport renewal on Google: The first entire page of search results are ads and SEO scammers that charge high fees to fill in a passport application form all disguised as government affiliated services. The actual government passport web site isn’t even close to being top result. Excite, Yahoo, and Alta Vista are welcoming Google to search giants retirement home. We dread when the SEO game ruins ChatGPT
- oriettaxx 4y agothe same for travel visas: it's full of scam websites, and official ones are often very well done, easy, fast. I have been a google reviewer maaaaany years ago, and it looks like they just don't invest anymore in this.
- pmoriarty 4y agoGoogle has turned into AltaVista