Just yesterday I've been flashing Raspberry OS to a micro SD card. Not succeeding with Balena Etcher, I opted to use the RPi imager tool, which did work (which might be an issue not in any way related). After that I added the `ssh` file to the boot partition and tried connecting to it via SSH. Providing username pi and password raspberry, connecting fails with invalid password, no matter how many times I tried. Searching all over the internet for whether the password was different nowadays, but coming up with zip, frustrated, I went to bed.

Reading this today it hits me that this change might just be the cause.

If that turns out to be the case, there should really be some indication in the RPi imager tool.