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What's on your "Everyday Carry" USB stick? (lemmy.mtate.me.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just picked up a 128GB USB A/C stick that can go on my keyring. What are some things I should put on it to have access to at all times?

I already have self hosted services accessible over my VPN, so this would be for when I can't access that.

I'm thinking at least Ventoy and some common ISOs, then I'm not sure what else.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'll carry it until the plastic cracks and it falls off your keyring.

So don't put anything too private on there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'll encrypt anything vaguely private. Honestly its a useful way of me not losing it around the house too, I must have 3 or 4 USB sticks in the house but when I need to install an ISO I can never find any

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh, then stick ventoy on it, and just shrink the partition and give yourself some permanent storage space too. Alternatively, just do the same for a live Linux iso of your choice.