I assume since the freelancers are affected by the hack they were informed by the Times.

IMHO part of the issue seems to be the question without any context. I believe people would be more helpful if they had explained what they wanted to do and how GIMP wasn’t the right tool for that specific task. It’s what would make me ignore the question (not scold people, no need).

You can already use a tool in the rpi imager to set the default login for your image.

It was probably translated from the original French automatically.