40/M/Linux Sysadmin EDC (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by beirdobaggins@lemmy.world to c/edc@sopuli.xyz

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phone: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

pen: Pilot G-2 .07

earbuds: Tozo T6

USB drives: Samsung USB-C 64GB and 256GB

knife: Gerber EAB Exchange a blade

wallet: Chums Surfshort Wallet

The 64GB drive is setup with Ventoy and has a ton of bootable ISO files on it.

The 256GB drive is encrypted and has a copy all of my files. (not including files that could be easily reproduced, like movies and music)

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[-] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Seems silly to carry a protective phone case but no phone.

[-] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a lot of people leave their phone out of the EDC because they use it to take the picture.

The case is a good stand-in.

[-] yyyesss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

that Gerber is my absolute favorite knife. never have to sharpen, always razor sharp. replacement blades are cheap and easily accessible.

[-] Poringo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Ventoy sounds very interesting, will give it a try.

How do you manage to have the personal data usb synced? How often do you sync it?

I like the idea of having my files always handy on a USB.

[-] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The drive is LUKS encrypted. It is an option when formatting the drive using Gnome Disks in Linux.

Whenever you plug it in, it asks for the password.

On the drive I have a bash script that syncs my home directory to a folder on the drive using rsync.

I don't create new files personal files very often and they are backed up in other ways too (to a NAS and also encrypted and uploaded to cloud storage) so I tend to only run the sync script about every other week or so.

I have a separate script and folder to backup my work laptop as well. for the work laptop I back my home directory and the /etc directory, because I have some customized configurations in etc. I run this every week.

Because the drives are USB C I can plug them into my phone for transferring files. The encrypted drive can be mounted using an app called ZUGate.

[-] sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

encrypted and uploaded to cloud storage

would you mind sharing your bash script for this, had dreamed of exploiting the 1G of free storage you get on every other corner.

[-] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I have a script that does an unencrypted backup to my true truenas machine.

Truenas has built in functionality to upload encrypted or unencrypted backups to various cloud providers. It is using rclone on the back end but it also handles the connection to your cloud storage really nicely too.

[-] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

God I loved my tozo t6s had to get rid of mine after the buds didnt hold a charge for more than an hour and then their other products the felt filters always came off in my ear which scared me away from using them. Sorry for the ramble great carry

[-] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have been using this pair since 2020, I lost them for a couple of months and picked up a pair of Tozo t8s. I didn't like them as much and the case was too big.

When I found them again, I gave the t8s to my son.

BTW, They still sell the t6s on Amazon.

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