For my library tech help appointments, I assembled a wallet of media, adapters, and other things I bring to work with most devices that are brought in for support. If you do this type of work, what's in your kit?

1. Zipper wallet designed for flash drives
2. USB WiFi adapter that requires no added drivers on Windows/macOS/Linux
3. Flash drive with Linux Mint
4. Flash drive I pre-load with whichever macOS release is needed
5. Flash drive with Windows 11
6. Flash drive with Windows 10
7. Good quality flash drive with nothing on it
8. Two trashy flash drives I'm willing to loan out
9. SIM cards, SIM card adapters for ancient phones
10. USB SD card adapter
11. USB micro-SD card adapter
12. USB-C to Lightning adapter
13. USB A to USB C adapter
14. USB C to USB A adapter
15. USB C to MagSafe 1 adapter
16. USB C to MagSafe 2 adapter
17. USB Bluetooth adapter
18. SIM card pin tools
19. Pile of SD cards
20. 1TB SSD
21. Screen cleaning supplies
22. Paint pen

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#TechSupport #Libraries

#FallColors #SilentSunday

The rest of my library tech help kit is a bag of mostly cables. Sometimes I also bring an iFixIt toolkit but only when I know there will be a little hardware work, which is rare - usually just installing or removing storage or DIMMs in a laptop since the appointments are too short for anything else.

1. USB C to mini USB cable
2. USB 3 Micro-B cable
3. Apple USB C digital AV adapter
4. USB Ethernet adapter
5. Mouse that supports both Bluetooth and a USB 2.4GHz dongle
6. Ethernet cable
7. USB A to USB C cable
8. USB C to USB C cable
9. Rubber tip stylus pen
10. Not pictured: Micro USB cable
11. Not pictured: Multi-port laptop power charger for USB C & A devices

External display with HDMI cable is provided by the library

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#TechSupport #Libraries

We are finished. Washed and dried. #Startrek #astronaut #babyquilt

You can get all the news you need from 404 media, The Sick Times, The Intercept, one or two others I can't think of this morning, and a ragtag collection of independent journalists who will take your money if you want to give it to them.

I read The Guardian to understand which narratives the ruling class is going with and how liberals feel about it.

That's it. That's my chosen media diet.

Inktober Day 8 = "Stinky". Did you know baby skunks can spray when they are only 8 days old? #inktober #inktober2026 #penandink

Relentless AI scrapers pushed DNA Lounge's web hosting bill from $800 to $3,500/month.

That is a $32,000/year cost shift caused entirely by companies training models on their content without permission. AI companies are externalizing their massive training costs onto independent web operators, effectively taxing the independent web to build their proprietary models. 📉

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/06.html

See that? (No, behind me.) That's something you don't see every day! That's...drum roll...the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world. (You may have to read that a couple of times; it's that kind of thing.) Treasure Island, Mindemoya Lake, Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron, Ontario.

Chicken stock and soup made, sweet potatoes roasted, salsa made (all unrelated).

Very tired now.

Knold would like to protest an utter unfairness. His humans have again invited scary humans in to work in the house, and even confined him to parts of the house where he would normally be anyway at that time of day. Unreasonable!

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold

Them: I need to buy a new inside door. It's drafty and cold where I sit to watch TV!

Me: Do you have a draft stop? Before you spend a lot of money you could also hang a heavy curtain over the door and move your chair away from the cold wall to see if that helps.

Them:

I'm going to go stare into space now.

#magic

Ripley catching some afternoon sunlight. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley #Caturday

cozy rain here

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mac-users-nuking-every-trace-of-apple-ai

#FuckAI

Got freshly-baked apple crisp packaged up and frozen.

Since I had the oven on I also made some green tomato mincemeat tarts and a small batch of chocolate chip cookies.

So. Much. Sugar. I may need to move.

@NanoRaptor

The duvet said “prt”.

Happy #caturday!

#fedicats #catsOfMastodon

Another #Caturday, another photo of my handsome Tennessee. Who is in need of nail trim, which he'll get in a couple weeks at his next routine vet visit.

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #today