A gem of a Gem

I’ve been using Gemini Pro for almost a year now. I pay google £14 a month and get a single seat on Business Workspace, 2Tb of storage and gemini pro. Plus some other stuff probably that I don’t use. So Gemini has become the default ai chat bot on both phone and desktop. I dread to think how many hours of conversations I’ve had. That’s probably a topic for another post. But, for now, I want to highlight a very useful Gem I created. Gems are a way to have custom chat with knowledge preloaded about a particular topic. The knowledge can be set as a combination of text instructions, uploaded files, imported code bases and notebookLM contents. I have a rather complicated personal computing and cloud setup. Well, lots of moving parts anyway. There’s a 3 monitor ubuntu workstation with an nvidia card, an aging dell laptop running mint, a cloud VPS, siteground php hosting, cloudflare and a few other things.Then there are backup strategies, a bare git repo holding dotprofile configs and a…