Docs: recommend Raspberry Pi Imager instead of Etcher.
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Etcher is privacy-invasive; replace it in INSTALL.md, the USB upgrade
tool messages, and the live-boot ephemeral warning.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ ERROR: the new ISO is larger than the headroom on this USB.
To upgrade, you'll need to:
1. Back up /media/wrolpi/ to another drive.
2. Re-flash the new ISO from scratch with dd or Etcher.
2. Re-flash the new ISO from scratch with dd or Raspberry Pi Imager.
3. Restore /media/wrolpi/ from the backup.
Future versions flashed from a release ≥ 0.22 reserve 8 GiB of
@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ WROLPi USB without losing your files:
1. Back up everything on the drive to another disk.
2. Flash the whole drive with the ISO (this erases it):
sudo dd if=<iso> of=<device> bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
(or use Etcher / Rufus / Raspberry Pi Imager)
(or use Raspberry Pi Imager / Rufus)
3. Boot the drive once. WROLPi creates its persistence partition and
sets itself up on first boot.
4. Copy your backed-up data into /media/wrolpi/ on the running system,