I don’t recall Ubuntu being a lightweight distro or ever aiming to be. It was always Debian with more stuff.

That’s what I’m complaining about

Shouldn’t they have investigated that before it was allowed to operate?

You can do that with the find command. Also xargs is a good one to know for stuff like this, but when commands have the capacity to work on a list already like find, you don’t need xargs. You can use find -exec rename -n with a regex perhaps. I’m not a linux system currently and can’t test a snippet, but I’ll check back later if the question is still open.

Management bros discover ventilation. Amazing. Here’s your $160,000 consulting fee

It’s not possible for them to acknowledge it because that would be too much like Trump criticizing Russia, and he isn’t allowed to do that.