New Raspberry Pi Set up

First, connect to the pi using the USB to UART cable, following the instructions at Adafruit, and enabling the connection in /boot/config.txt

Then set up wifi following the instructions at raspberrypi.org.

Then change the default password using:

sudo passwd pi

Then enable SSH, and update the hostname using:

sudo raspi-config
# Select Interfacing Options and enable SSH
# Select Network Options and change hostname 

Finally, update the software with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade