Subj : Re: Can't get into headless pi, password not 'raspberry'
To   : Bob Latham
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Mon Jan 27 2025 05:56:48

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:02 +0000 (GMT), Bob Latham wrote:

> Before anyone makes the obvious claim, in my eyes a pi doesn't
> qualify as a PC.

It’s a personal computer. Remember, the original PCs were “personal”
because individuals could buy them and set them up for themselves. The
Raspberry Pi is, if anything, a further continuation of that trend.

More than that, it keeps alive some of the original spirit that has gone
from the Microsoft/Apple market: early PCs were hackable to some extent by
users (remember when you got BIOS listings in the Technical Manuals?), but
current proprietary machines effectively have a big sign across them
saying “No User-Serviceable Parts Inside” (and this applies to both
hardware and software).

Conversely, the Linux-running Raspberry Pi invites you to open it up and
mess around, both in terms of hardware and software. And this is
deliberate, by design.

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