Let’s see how much we have in common with our backpack inventories.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•8 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.

    • BOMBSOPMEnglish
      5•8 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 😆

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 months ago

        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

        • 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.