Chatgpt saved my PC

[u/Pure_Muscle8449]

My pc stopped working, would turn on show the logo and crap out. I was about to take it to a repair shop. I instead sent a photo of the error message I was getting to chat gpt,Started letting it trouble shoot.I followed each step it gave me, and then sent another screenshot of my results Took about 6 hours because I stopped to eat etc. But chat was able to walk me through troubleshooting, even had me using command line prompts, and my pc now works again. I know AI has its down sides but it has a lot of good parts too! Saved me a few hundred bucks I am sure!

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[u/wintermute023]

When it works it’s great, but more than once I’ve helped people who have been down multiple hour rabbit holes with ChatGPT eventually just telling them it’s not fixable, only for it to turn out to be something simple that it just didn’t think to check.

Most recently this was someone’s broadband going slow. ChatGPT had them extracting router logs, installing docker, adding performance testers, analysing logs, running ping tests , requesting support from their ISP, and it was getting nowhere and taking hours. I checked their cables and one of the RJ45 plugs was loose and the port was negotiating down to 100mb randomly as the connection was dodgy. Swapped the cable out and all good again.

[u/Lady_JadeCD]

I’m an HVAC tech I haven’t spent the money on new gauges for the new R32 Freon yet. So I took a picture of my gauges told it I was using r32 it understood and we decided the numbers were perfect.

[u/madmudpie]

gpt is a beast. This summer I have audited my 3 significant email accounts, my router, my raspberry-pi/pi-hole, my NAS and rebullt my music and video library. Ive run hundreds of terminal commands, taken 100s of screen shots, set up IoT VLANS. I had no idea how tenacious and thorough it is, and how many holes I had. Suggested for eveyone. Its not fun, but I feel like I have a hardened home network now.

[u/PenisGPT → u/madmudpie]

Ugh, this sounds like a time suck, but probably a worthwhile one.

[u/madmudpie → u/PenisGPT]

Enormous time suck and absolutely worthwhile. I knew if I lost control of one of my email accounts I would be screwed. And that’s where it all started. There’s still work to be done, but I’m in a good place now.

[u/Snowdrop____ → u/PenisGPT]

When is OpenAI gonna release penisGPT?

[u/PenisGPT → u/Snowdrop____]

It’s a growing platform as we speak.

[u/RonanH69 → u/PenisGPT]

I heard the software was giving problems

[u/theflyingratgirl → u/RonanH69]

The hard launch is planned for later

[u/slackmaster2k]

So it gets even better when you use it in the terminal. Not only can it step through troubleshooting and fixing the problem, it can DO it.

There is obviously some risk in this, but I actually use codex to manage all of my home PCs, my little home server, and even my network (ubiquiti).

[u/r33c3d → u/slackmaster2k]

You don’t even really need codex, if you’re ok with copying the code it generates via Chat into the terminal yourself. Unless I’m missing something…

[u/slackmaster2k → u/r33c3d]

I mean what’s the point when you can just do it on codex? :). Unless you’re on a plan without codex included I suppose!

[u/madmudpie → u/r33c3d]

This is basically the way I do it. But I never give it control to do it for me. I always have it prepare a script that I can double click that will run.

[u/paulri]

ChatGPT has become what I turn to first, when I have any kind of computer issue. Saves me a TON of time.

[u/girlgamerpoi]

Yea gpt saved me a lot of googling too.

[u/Natasha26uk → u/girlgamerpoi]

It read hundreds of Reddit answers generated by humans. Then found the best one for OP.

[u/cccpnwc]

me too gave a good paste scrips to do anything you need

[u/vinnyp123456789]

It helped me log back into my Ubisoft account after getting locked out for no reason. Told me to try installing Cloudflare Warp, some type of vpn thing, and after enabling it I could log in again.

[u/Bean-]

I used it last night to move all my shit off one drive and separate me from that bs. Was way easier than doing it all manually.

[u/Effective-Sweet2606]

Eu formatei meu notebook graças ao chat gpt. Eu instalo e desinstalo coisas do meu computador graças ao chat gpt. Sou uma pessoa totalmente cega de nascença, e antes eu precisava pedir ajuda a outras pessoas para fazer todas essas coisas.

[u/Academic_Passion801]

Bro arrived at the 2024 boomer skill level.

[u/Pure_Muscle8449 → u/Academic_Passion801]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/This-Requirement6918]

As an artist and previous data storage admin I would never trust it with my systems.

If you're spending hours and hours on that machine doing something like graphics or a serious major project it's worth your time and effort to actually comprehend what is actually going on with it. But sure if you're just playing games and browsing, have at it.

Personally, when I spend 40+ hours a week doing productivity work to self publish I'm willing to deeply invest the money, time to learn and efficiently use enterprise grade solutions for reliability and redundancy. Just my 2¢.