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

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago
    • Cough drops
    • Ear plugs (a few here and there)
    • Microfibre cloth
    • a lucky charm
    • pocket-size tissue pack
    • an emergency $50 bill
    • an emergency snack
    • an emergency Linux install USB drive

    These are stuff then generally stay in the bag between trips. Stuff like a water bottle I add before almost any long trip out.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldOPM
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      8 months ago

      An emergency Linux install USB drive?? In what scenario would you imagine you would need that?

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        8 months ago

        Probably one that can live boot and run right off of USB. There’s a computer, you might be able to use it without knowing how to log on by booting from that stick. Now you might send/receive messages in a dire circumstance.

          • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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            8 months ago

            Also, having a live USB is really handy for doing PC maintenance when the installed OS gets borked somehow.

            Check out Ventoy, it’s a utility that lets you boot up any disk image from usb storage. For me, it condensed a keyring full of single-purpose flash drives down to just one.

          • voracitude@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Oh man, if you like Live Boot USBs, just wait til you see this thing: https://www.newegg.com/zalman-ve400/p/N82E16817379030

            There’s probably an updated version available somewhere. Slap a drive in and load any ISO, and it can mount it as a virtual disc drive, or you can switch it to be detected as a regular external drive if you prefer, or both at the same time. I use it for booting my copy of Hiren’s Boot CD I’ve been lugging around for eighteen years, live-boot Linux and Windows PE/recovery environments, it’s brilliant.