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Decided to reimage my raspberry pi. Since that really means just putting a new image on an sd card it wasn't hard. But I did have make some tweaks in terms of username, keyboard layout, and time zone. I put a description of this below.

Networking

I went through this in my other setup post here.

Change Username

I wanted to change the default username and password from pi and raspberry to my own. Here's the code

sudo passwd   # make a root password

# log out and log in as root

usermod -l newName oldName
usermod -m -d /home/newName newName
passwd newName

Change Keyboard and Time

Next was changing the default time, UTC, to EST where I live. And to change the keyboard to US not a UK layout. This is done by typing sudo raspi-config and going to the international options and just going through the menu.

Config

Finally I needed to config zsh, my normally installed programs and other dotfiles. For this I used my config repo which I talk about here.

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