I feel like it’s not something you see very often here compared to other items like knives and fidget items.

I have a JEYI 2230 NVMe case with a 1TB drive I keep on my keychain for backups of things that would be annoying to lose like my AntennaPod stats

  • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    backups of things that would be annoying to lose like my AntennaPod stats

    😅

    i recently lost those after a factory reset. i understand what you mean and now i have the “automatic database export” (to sd) enabled… but i wouldn’t call that annoying. In my usbKey i rather have backups of official documents which, when lost, is really annoying and tiring to get back: birth certificates, all kinds of permits, licences, degrees &c

    all is, of course, encrypted with veracrypt so the key also have installers for different systems

  • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ve got one of those metal Samsung keychain USB sticks I loaded up with an assortment of tools from Portable Apps.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I carry my late son’s school thumb drive (it is metal and has a hole for a keychain), and it has a copy of the last video I ever took of him (6 days before his death), his last school picture, and his last voicemail to me.

    • ackbar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Sorry for your loss. I hope you have multiple backup copies of those files somewhere. The flash storage on those drives are the cheapest of the cheap and it isn’t unheard of for them to go belly up suddenly.

  • ackbar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have a tiny Kingston microduo 3c drive on my keychain with some tech toolkit stuff. It is small and robust. Think I have had it knocking around for the last 4 years.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    When I did much more general tech support for whoever asked, I carried a Live USB drive to boot from. I don’t offer that out anymore though, so no longer carry it. The closest to something digital would be my yubikey, and thats only EDC because its in my wallet

    • 5ubieee@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Same here! Still carry mine around and it’s partitioned so it’s also useful when someone wants to share a large file but doesn’t have the time to upload it or have the cloud storage to host it

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Small metal memorystick of 256GB, with a usb-a and usb-c connector.

    Can be plugged in nearly everywhere, even use it in my phone.