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Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by mrweasel on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:01AM (#10492093)
Could we please NOT shorten Raspberry Pi to RasPi? It breaks searches and looks childish. You wouldn't short Hacker News to HacNe, so don't shorten Raspberry Pi
Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by spdustin on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:58AM (#10492534)
It's the de facto shorthand for Raspberry Pi. Language evolves; it's a beautiful thing to behold evolution in ones own lifespan! I have found something my mother used to say to be very helpful here, if you're feeling particularly curmudgeonly about such things: "you can be right, or you can be happy."

She went on to say that being "right" isn't true as often as one thinks, and in any case, forcing your "rightness" on others can sometimes exclude you from groups, opportunities, and experiences, which takes away happiness. Being happy doesn't mean abandoning your principals, either. It means knowing when it's worth picking a battle versus letting something go because you may, in fact, be wrong according to those in the know, and in any case, when principals aren't involved, it's often easier to simply let it go.

This is all a polite way of suggesting what another might say in three semi-rude words, and that I'll only repeat here to potentially prevent someone else from being abrasive, not because I mean too say them directly myself: "get over it."

Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by TeMPOraL on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:04AM (#10492108)
Long too late for that. Everyone uses it in speech already, "Raspberry" is too unwieldy a word. Hell, you've even got (the most popular) operating system called "Raspbian".
Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by morganvachon on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:35PM (#10493941)
I prefer RPi or Pi myself, but why the fuss? Google at least is smart enough to match RasPi to Raspberry Pi, at least within my search bubble.

As for it looking childish...I suppose that's a matter of opinion, but I have to wonder if you also consider people who call Apple Macintosh computers "Macs" to be childish as well? My point being, even the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation use the common shorthand sometimes. If they are okay with it, I'm okay with it.

Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by radiorental on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:08AM (#10492128)
guilty, I was trimming the title to fit under the limit and went too far.

That said, we interchangeably use rpi, raspi and raspberry pi at work. A web search for raspi confirms it's quite a common pattern for the board.

I even have a 'raspi' motor hat on one of my robots, the "raspirobotboard v2" https://github.com/simonmonk/raspirobotboard2

Re:Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux by runjake on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:09PM (#10493748)
Good luck with that effort, even the official raspberrypi.org uses that shorthand (Google "raspi" site:raspberrypi.org).