I'm back on my BS 🤪M to [email protected]English • 4 months agoAnyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?message-square95fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1164arrow-down1message-squareAnyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?I'm back on my BS 🤪M to [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-24 months ago Spare phone charger (USB battery pack before it turned into a pillow) Micro-USB and USB-C data cables Ethernet cable 32G USB drive: 8G partition with bootable Linux Mint (can you guess what I do for a living?) The rest is FAT32 storage A cheap wireless mouse Bluetooth earphones (currently Skullcandy Jib True) Flashlight Sunglasses 300ml bottle, even if empty Several plastic bags Bunch of rubber bands Fork Teaspoon Toothpicks A tacky collapsible cup Tweezers (one with a sharp tip, one flat) Ibuprofen Photocopy of my medical insurance card Sometimes an iFixit Essentials kit (not sponsored) This excludes the content of my wallet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•4 months agoI drink most of it immediately, no need for storage
minus-squareI'm back on my BS 🤪OPMlinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 months ago 32G USB drive: 8G partition with bootable Linux Mint (can you guess what I do for a living?) The rest is FAT32 storage That you specified the partitioning is my favorite part 😆
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-24 months agoI could write a similar list about the flash drives I use at work or at home. 32G stick mentioned above 32G “Imaging” USB stick 400M partition with a customized bootable Clonezilla: One boot entry that loads the OS to RAM, brings up an ethernet interface with DHCP, and mounts a Samba share to /home/partimag One that loads the OS and brings up a bash CLI (Clonezilla is basically Debian with extras) One that loads the OS and mounts: A second FAT32 partition that contains: A Debian 11 image A Linux Mint image A customized Ubuntu 22.04 VirtualBox OVA image 2G “iHaxit” USB stick with a read-only switch MAS tron Utilities that Windows often marks as malware and tries to delete 128G “Rescue” Bootable Windows recovery disk Plenty of space to save important documents before the subject computer is nuked 32G “DO NOT USE” stick that I nuke and reformat for whatever purpose I need (not to be used for storage) …plus a lot of optical disks with various Windows installers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoCheck out Ventoy, it’s a utility for booting any disk image fron USB storage and might help reduce the number of drives you need to carry. Also, it supports data persistence if you want a portable live OS. =D
This excludes the content of my wallet.
Why is your piss bottle so small?
I drink most of it immediately, no need for storage
That you specified the partitioning is my favorite part 😆
I could write a similar list about the flash drives I use at work or at home.
32G stick mentioned above
32G “Imaging” USB stick
2G “iHaxit” USB stick with a read-only switch
128G “Rescue”
32G “DO NOT USE” stick that I nuke and reformat for whatever purpose I need (not to be used for storage)
…plus a lot of optical disks with various Windows installers.
Check out Ventoy, it’s a utility for booting any disk image fron USB storage and might help reduce the number of drives you need to carry. Also, it supports data persistence if you want a portable live OS. =D