The use case here is looking through logs for software that aren't familiar, especially stuff that gets touched too infrequently to internalize like, say, drive

The use case here is looking through logs for software that aren't familiar, especially stuff that gets touched too infrequently to internalize like, say, driver logs on a Linux workstation. If it's faster for you to read the logs yourself, you should continue to do that. If it's bespoke personal or commercial software, chances are GPT isn't going to be trained on its meaning anyway. Most people aren't going to be familiar with arbitrary ACPI errors. Most people would have to Google or ask GPT to even understand the acronym.