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What portable utilities do you carry with you. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I personally always have one USB stick with me that has a live usb boot of Fedoraon it, but I just saw the new video from Linus tech tips and thought about extending it a bit.
He mostly talked about windows tools, but I think I will add

https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html for maybe an additional Linux light version
https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server if I have to share files from a broken Computer or so.

What are you using or do you have recommendations?

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[–] MomSpaghetti 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

An adapter that turns my laptop into a KVM. Also a foldable wireless keyboard. I used to carry a travel router that would VPN me home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What adapter does the KVM?

[–] Arrayrepairman 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not OP, but I carry one from Star Tech. They are pricey, but if you need them, the are great.ine also has mass media support, so I can use a iso on my pc and boot the other computer to it, great for setting up servers when ilo/idrac decides to give you issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you link the one you use?

[–] MomSpaghetti 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/notecons01

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yikes that's steep! Hard to warrant that over carrying a capture card and a keyboard. Thank you for the link though

[–] MomSpaghetti 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What capture card do you carry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just use a cheap $15 one I got from Staples. a bit of delay but it gets the job done when you just need in quick. They make way better ones for relatively cheap

[–] MomSpaghetti 2 points 11 months ago

Yea I use one from Startech.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/notecons01

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Woah now, what's this KVM adapter now?? That sounds incredible

[–] MomSpaghetti 2 points 11 months ago

https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/notecons01

My job takes me to a lot of random environments I've never been to before. This thing is a life saver.