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it would be like a giant Freebsd suppository i mean repository sorry i cant resist any opportunity for toilet humour being British its an integral part of our culture

imagine if you could take the database from this forum and use it as a source in NotebookLM then you could query the forum in addition to the handbook and man pages with a prompt that would be really useful

it might actually be a more efficient way to browse the handbook than scrolling through a long page

You can click items in the Mind map and it will then open the section in the sources in the middle pain for example if i click "User and Basic Account Management" it then opens that section in the handbook in the middle pane

Freebsd Mind map after you have uploaded the sources you will see a button above the prompt called Mind map click the Mind map button and it will create a new button in the right column click the button saying "Freebsd Handbook click to open the Mind map" and this is what you will see

tell me how i can use the du command to show the filesize of a folder You can use the `du` command along with specific options to display the filesize of a folder. To show the total size of a folder in a human-readable format, you can use the following command: ```sh du -sh <folder_path> ```...

doesnt look like thats possible with a standard google account you only have options to share the Notebook with people in your contacts and not create a public Notebook

im just looking at if i can make my Notebook Public or share it what would be cool is to have community Freebsd Notebook people could query could be useful to new users and save the mods on the forum dealing with noob queries

the advantage is that NotebookLM only queries the sources ( pdf files ) you give it like the manpages and handbook rather than trying to search the web and coming up with nonsense you can save webpages as pdf and upload those as well to use as sources yes it should be able to offer examples...

Eureka I uploaded the pdfs of the manpages and the Freebsd Handbook pdf to Google NotebookLM I then gave it a prompt asking "tell me about the fortune command" and it worked it queried the manpage and gave me a response with links to the source Converting man pages to pdfs for Google...

are you referring to the manpages and if its possible to convert them to another format instead of pdfs i converted the man pages to html so you could convert the html to epub files instead using pandoc if you wanted to read them on a phone using pdfs with google notebooklm is the easiest...

i converted all the 4150 html files into a pdf files which took a while then i combined them into one pdf qpdf --empty --pages pdf_manpages/*.pdf -- freebsd_manpages.pdf that created a 577mb pdf which is too large to upload to google notebooklm which has an upload filesize limit of 200mb so...

that created 4150 html pages as opposed to the previous command which create 1450 page next step convert the 4150 html pages to pdf files the issue is going to be combining them as it will exceed the file size upload limit not sure if the best solution would be to combine a range of files eg...

going to try this code again using /usr/share/man and not /usr/src/share/man #!/bin/sh # Create the html_manpages directory and Convert man pages to HTML using mandoc: mkdir -p html_manpages count=0 inodes="" # String to store seen inodes find /usr/share/man -type f -name "*.gz" | grep...

just tried querying for the du command with only the manpages.pdf as a source not found in source so there must be an issue with how i converted the man pages to html and then pdfs i created the manpages from /usr/src/share/man instead of the man pages installed on the system my thinking...

still uploading

uploaded the man pages combined into a single pdf removed the pdf and will try a new version google notebooklm wont allow you to use pdfs from your google drive as a source only google docs and google slides so you have to upload the file in google notebooklm just uploading the pdf to...

combined all the pdfs of the man pages into one pdf qpdf --empty --pages pdf_manpages/*.pdf -- freebsd_manpages.pdf the combined pdf has a file size of 197mb google notebooklm has a filesize limit on files of 200 mb so just under that uploading to google drive and will make it public

i will upload the combined pdf to google drive and make it public that way other users can download the pdf and use it with google notebooklm rather than having to create the pdf themselves

texlive-full finally downloaded converting all the html pages converted from the man pages to pdfs mkdir -p pdf_manpages for html_file in html_manpages/*.html; do pdf_file="pdf_manpages/$(basename "$html_file" .html).pdf" pandoc -f html "$html_file" -o "$pdf_file" done when it has created...