Anyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?

Elkenders , 3 months ago

Haha, aaaabsolutely. I have:

• My portable game console (Retroid Pocket 3+).
• My cable pouch (need a charger for a 20 year old iPod? I got you fam. HDMI? No worries. USB micro B? All good. For some reason I hate being caught out without the right cable).
• My 60w UGREEN Gan USB A/USB C charger.
• At the moment, the book I'm reading (Relativity Visualized).
• My journal. I don't write in it every day but sporadically.
• My medication.
• Battery bank.
• Laptop (ThinkPad T480).
• Deodorant.
• Hair wax.
• Toothbrush.
• A pen.
• My home and work keys with tag trackers on each and a multi tool on my home keys.
• External SSD.
• Umbrella.
• Ear plugs.
• Contigo go cup.
• A lighter.

Headphones, phone and wallet stay in my pocket.

knightly , 3 months ago

Lets see..

My work bag has:

• Laptop/charger
• Faraday pouch w/ work phone and badge
• Water bottle (covered in stickers)
• Toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, moustache wax, deoderant, and ADHD meds in case I forget them before leaving for work
• Chapstick
• Handwarmers
• Charging cables
• Pen and notepad
• Backup protein bar
• Mini first aid kit
• Fidget toy (begleri)

My personal bag gets repacked regularly depending on the outing, but typically has items from the above list plus:

• Multitool/iFixit toolkit
• Meshtastic radio node
• BTECH radio handset
• Solar battery bank
• Steam Deck, type-C hub, HDMI and Ethernet cables
• Flash drive w/ Ventoy, Linux disk images, and PC repair utilities.
• Portable hard drive w/ media
• Bluetooth keyboard

raynethackery , 3 months ago

Are the meds in rx bottles? Don't want the police to think you just have speed on you.

rtxn , 3 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.

BackOnMyBS OP Mod , 3 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 😆

rtxn , 3 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.

knightly , 3 months ago

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

loudWaterEnjoyer , 3 months ago

Why is your piss bottle so small?

rtxn , 3 months ago

I drink most of it immediately, no need for storage

loudWaterEnjoyer , 3 months ago

Man of culture meme