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  • Paul Southworthpws@social.coop
    Oct 10, 2026, 12:47 PM

    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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    A flash drive zipper wallet with a variety of media and adapters arrayed next it. All described in the text of this post.
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  • Paul Southworthpws@social.coop
    Oct 10, 2026, 1:05 PM

    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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    Assortment of cables all described in the text of this post
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