• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    You say that yet we all know Google has gone to shit the last 2 years. Not to mention all the good forums are either shuttering or putting up motes so they can’t be scraped, which means they can’t be found. Discord has been a disaster for tech solution searching online.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPM
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      4 hours ago

      Sure, but google an error message + one or two tiny details still will 70% of the time return something useful.

      Its gotten worse, but not that bad yet.

        • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 hours ago

          At that point, as silly as it sounds, run it through a locally hosted LLM

          they got trained on the documentation for a lot of these softwares, they’re shockingly good at error code lookup and providing correct solutions because they basically print out the help page that’s now hidden by search engines

          I still sanity check every answer I ever get, but it helps narrow shit down when Google or others aren’t fucking behaving themselves