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Episode: 2842
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Title: HPR2842: What's in my Bag an update to hpr2065
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2842/hpr2842.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 17:49:45
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This is an HBR episode 2,842 entitled What's in my bag and update to HBR 2,655.
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It is hosted by Tony Hume KHA Tony H1212 and is about 4 minutes long and carrying a clean
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flag.
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The summary is, this is a short update show on what I carried in my geek bag.
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Hello, I could probably lay the Olam, this is Tony Hume, again coming from Blackpool
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in the UK.
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During my last episode, which was my 50th of the HBR, I realised that my bag has changed
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considerably since recording my episode HBR 2065 about it back in July 2016.
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So this is an update on what I currently carry in my geek bag when I turn about.
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I have several laptops which are used for different things at different times, so many may or
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may not be in the bag, bags depending on what I'm doing.
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This is a list.
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I've got Lenovo X230i, the Toshiba Z30, a couple of Dell E622Os, a Dell E725O, a Dell E740,
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and a Dell E650.
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Recently, as you can see, I've moved over to Dell laptops, and the Dell E740 is a great
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compromise on portability and usability with its 14-inch 1080p screen, but if I want to
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light and long battery life, the Toshiba Z30s have a fantastic little PC with all day battery
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life and a great 13.3-inch screen, but all the others have their place in the bag for
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demonstrating Linux distros at events or at my look.
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So the next thing that makes it into the bag is my Zoom H2 recorder, which goes with
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me for recording interviews at events I attend with the intention of producing HPR shows.
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I also have some tools.
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The first is a set of screwdriver and small driver bits made by Draperia.
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This is a handy for laptop tear downs as it has all the necessary bit heads needed to work
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on electronics.
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I also carry a small set of pliers and a wire cutter in the bag.
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Also in the bag is a £10,000mAh battery pack for charging my mobile phone if needed while
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I've turned about.
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In conjunction with this, I carry several micro USB charging cables and a USB-C cable for
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the increasingly number of USB-C devices around these days, along with this in the bag is
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a couple of 128GB SSDs aspares for quick swap outs if I don't want to wipe a drive, but
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wish to test the new OS, or for those times the only solution to helping someone rescue
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an older laptop is to stick an SSD in it.
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I also generally carry around my own portable 1TB USB 3 hard drive as I store large numbers
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of current Linux ISO files on this for burning to flash drives to create boot disks.
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It goes without saying that I also have a few spare flash drives in the bag for just this
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year.
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I also carry a few SD cards for creating Raspberry Pi images if and when needed.
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Other items include a USB Wi-Fi card as a backup of a Wi-Fi malfunction or I'm working on
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a machine without its own Wi-Fi card.
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So that's about it for what I'm currently carrying in my bag before I go, a bit of
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sad news.
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Many of you have heard me talk of my latest bargains from the computer auction I've
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frequented since 2007, or sadly, no more.
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Northern realizations after 20 years of trading have closed their doors for the last time,
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so I need to find another source of cheap PC equipment.
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As they say, all good things come to an end.
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Well that's it for this episode, this is Tony Hughes signing off for Hacker Public Radio,
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please be down the road.
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