I’d use the find command piped to mv and play with some empty test folders first. I’m not familiar with Nemo, though I’ve used it for a short while. I’ve never tried the bulk renaming features if they exist.

Depending in how much variation you have in the preceding underscores, REGEX may be useful, but if its just a lot of single underscores you can easily trim them with a single version of the script.

Edit: corrected second command typo. I think there’s a rename command I haven’t used in ages that may have args to help here too, but I’m away from the PC

If you dare, you can automated it with some simple scripting. If I had more than 20 or 30, I’d probably go that route.

Yeah, that sounds like a better long-term solution for you. Once you change your workflow, you shouldn’t have to do it again anyway!

Not a fix, but a workaround I use when symbols and punctuation are treated this way: I use lowercase letters to precede folder names to get the sort I want.

aFolder1
bFolder2

Not elegant, but it works in your case. You could also try other file managers, like Thunar to see if they manage sorting differently

Worst timeline? Could be…

Man, Google really does suck now. It feels nearly impossible to get something like a how-to deep in the Debian FAQs to come up, as it mostly surfaces this auto-generated SEO crap

By design. The longer you’re Googling, the more ads they can sell.

…Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

Why is green bad and red good? Seems like the color choices are as odd as the opinions in the list.

Added the ability to select an action when starting playback (for example, you can choose to continue playback from an interrupted position), providing more control over the playback experience.

We have been able to do this in previous versions at least back to v17…

Improved AV1 support is welcome, and the ffmpeg change as well.

Unlike other clients, it concentrates on albums.

Trying to wrap my head around this. In the context of music on Linux, I listen to albums exclusively. Am I an outlier?

The same reason people buy the cereal their grocer places at eye-level, and buy their cars from the stealer: marketing

Not temporary.

Looks temporary to me:

No interest in engaging with you further. Good luck, comrade.

Looks to me like you got (temp) banned for posting apparent incel comments in a hateful way. Not to mention your advice was exactly what the OP said they were avoiding from their own friends.

Perhaps reading the room is a good start before you click reply. Doubling down when called out for hateful comments will rarely go well, and defaulting to name calling and reducing well-received advice to a “lib salad” (whatever that means) won’t either. Perhaps stop behaving like the internet is some place where manners and respect are optional, and you’ll feel more welcome wherever you go.

I’m not trying to call you out or rehash that relationship advice here, only pointing out that you can disagree with people politely if you truly do desire respectful discourse. I hope you reflect on the ban and the comments replied to you. The world needs fewer, not more hateful incels or “alpha males.”

I’ll do some research on this front to see what I find. Thanks

I may go down that road, but the main push was to remove the almost ten year old platter based magnetic drive. Maybe I’ll look into placing the ESP on a flash drive until I have a better solution. Bummer. This secret upgrade to breathe new life into my partner’s laptop isn’t going well at all.

Thanks for that insight. The hard thing is that getting things from Amazon or other web stores in Central America where I live is not easy. I ordered this drive in November and received it two weeks ago. I was sure it would work, as my G3 laptop came from the factory with a M.2 Kingston drive, so I assumed NVME was a no-brainer.

The real kicker is that this was planned as a gift to my partner who has the same laptop, but with a Toshiba HDD. Boot time >2 min, vs 17s on my SSD, and even faster (theoretically) on this M.2. Sigh… poor prep on my part.

Thanks again for the kind help. I had no idea.

Thanks for the reply.

This is the drive I picked up. It’s a bog standard tiny M.2 drive that will fit in my laptop.

I have my controller set to AHCI mode. The drive is seen, as I can install MX Linux or Mint to it, but it won’t boot. Same with Clonezilla or dd, which can see the drive just fine to copy data to it. The option to boot from PCIe/M.2 is enabled. Toggling it changes nothing in any case.

When I press F9 for boot options after removing the 2.5" SSD, I can see the boot option named as “MX23” or “Mint” (depending on which I’ve just installed or cloned), but selecting it does nothing, unfortunately.

I think tlp-ui can do this, but only on specific devices. IIRC, you set the charging thresholds in such a way that the battery will not charge. For example, configure to prevent charging until below 40% and as long as the battery is above that threshold, no charging should take place.

However, this likely means that as soon as your device goes to sleep or powers off, the battery begins charging again.

Have you tried this?

Which distro? Do you have tlp installed? If so, you an use tlpui to configure lots of power related settings.

I prefer the deb that works. I get a signal.update almost every other day. I don’t remember to update my flatpaks anywhere near that often. I also appreciate that it doesn’t force me to include dependencies that are already met.