Agreed. Yes, it’s important to know what’s going on in the “big” world - but I wish all of us more interested in Lemmy, the small web, and so on spent more time and energy on creating, maintaining, and enjoying what we can build/use and less lamenting, bashing, or wishing for what we want to leave behind.

I had no idea how much I enjoyed LibreVox (which - at least for the things I am interested in - goes to archive.org for downloads) and OpenLibrary until I couldn’t access them. This morning, still no go on either.

See if the command line utility “detox” removes it. I use it in a bash file that tidies everything up for me before I do my daily backup.

Go to the directory you want to clean up and type:

detox *

If you don’t want to clean up everything, you can limit it. For example, if I only want to clean up PDF files, I’d do:

detox *.pdf

Detox replaces all the ugly characters with underscores. I personally hate underscores for most everything and use dashes instead. So after detox runs I also run:

rename ‘y/_/-/’ *

Then, because I want every file named only with lowercase letters, I also run:

rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *

(edit to remove duplicate info)