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  • 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






  • 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.


  • And many, many mobile apps out there, except this one is the bad one, because: China.

    My point is that meaningful privacy legislation would stop all apps from doing this with our data, but we have legislators who only pretend to care if a bogeyman has access to the data, and forget the part where any adversary could simply buy the data on the open data market.

    I’m personally less interested in China having access to my daily movements than I am my own government, which includes states that are trying to criminalize going to certain medical providers.

    I’d prefer if nobody had access, but I can see through the charade. These legislators are invested in technology that competes with China, and that collect and sell our data, so they prefer to keep things the way they are and pick winners and losers.







  • I owned four Fitbit devices, and they all broke in some way. The clip broke at the middle joint. Everything else always was at the wristband to body joint, and they refused to make standard wristbands. I’ve had a Vivoactive 3 since 2018-ish, and it still works for me, plus I can have custom activities, and watch faces, and data screens. I like that my partner’s Garmin and mine use the same charging cable, too.

    Disclaimer: I don’t use the smart watch features, like texts or calls or notifications of any kind on my tracker, and the battery lasts about five days still, unless I use GPS.





  • 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.