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I think your best bet is to pick one thing that you can get a good guide for and start from there. If you really want to learn its probably better to start with a Debian or arch setup than proxmox, but that’s really going to depend on what you really care about learning.

I know it will be an unpopular opinion but you can use perplexity or Claude to help you find useful sources online if you’re striking out on your searching. Most of the time I find they do better with more obscure issues, but those should be rare if you’re following a guise

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Using an AI is a great way to get learning materials tailored specifically to you.

But after you’ve learned from it, before you move on to another topic, you HAVE to verify your understanding against more trustworthy sources that you previously couldn’t understand. Ideally with an online course that actually gives you a test.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

but you can use perplexity or Claude

For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it’s limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don’t necessarily have a firm grip on. I’ve also found that if you ask a question, finish up with ‘explain it for a noob’ or ‘EILI5’. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn’t assume you know what to do in between steps.

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- Seefoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I find LLMs make a lot more.mistakes when they try to distill a guide down to steps. Its not a bad summary, but they to get confused sometimes when there are forks in the guide. That said they are really good at finding guides, especially older ones that SEs tend to not place as high
  
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