This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4175 for Friday 2 August 2024.
Today's show is entitled, What's In My Bag Part 2.
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The summaries operator talks about his book Bag for 2023-2024.
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Welcome to the episode of Hacker Public Radio with your host Operator.
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio with your host
Operator.
Today I have dumped out my new book bag.
I have returned a target's book bag like four times now and it doesn't have as many
poskets which is good but anyways I am going to be talking about my cell phone and how
I had to get it set back up and the struggles along the way and kind of reach out to
ask for how to reduce that pain next time around.
I had a Samsung S10E small little phone.
I loved it and it just started getting sluggish and I was due for a reset on Android and
I figured well if I do a reset I might get another year out of it and then I will
get a new phone because I think it was like 2017 when it came up so phones don't last
long like these too so I will ask if they have another phone line around the office
I will get a new one and I didn't really think about it at all at the time I should have
probably stuck with my old one because I am an old fart and I am set in my ways.
So I have all these analog and nice analog fancy earbuds I am probably up to 1, 2, 3, 4,
or 5, so it is probably 3 at least a fancier one, 60, 70, 80, 90 dollar range those
are as fancy as I will get and then I have various ones that I have collected over time
they are not very nice so I think my favorite ones are these west domes I don't know
what brand they are W10s or something W10s W20s I think they are dual driver so before
I get more into that I could do a whole other show and I know what this name is yeah
W20s I would like them the most but I had to really shove those in my ear so they need
to custom ear plug for those you can take and it is like right on custom ear buds where
you mix two plastic together and you rub them together I cut the batch in half so you get
two headphone batches basically you get to chance to mess up I pretty much like those
they are nice see basically you mix them come count together you let it set see me
we are not editing this by the way
if you hear some crunchy sounds it is my chair now I have tried to fix it before this is a nice
I am all over the place this is a nice horn miller arrow chair I bought a new bottom
aftermarket bottom for it because the bottom part ripped out but if you do not have a chair
and you are in IT or still at please invest in a nice excuse me a nice chair when I
start talking is when I start yawning I got plenty of sleep last night let me try to get some
water gear so I don't yawning you put you to sleep anyways exciting stuff I am going to be talking
about my cell phone setup my book back setup and whatever notes tickles my fancy so I have
my bag here and as I am going through my bag of duplicate stuff I am going to talk about my
cell phone issues or cell phone setup so go to the bag here I have a USB duckie I guess I will go
through the bag real quick I am organizing my bag it got kind of an out of whack because too many
cables and switching from analog to USB-C to analog audio everything is all mixed up now
but this is a USB bass bunny from while it is originally from some other folks but
the popularized by hackvive basically it is a USB networking device with a storage attached to it
you can plug into a locked windows station and it will dump the password hash up that windows box
and you can go crack it later so it is pretty terrifying piece of tech you can do all kinds of stuff
it is basically a responder set up a man in the middle of the tech from just plugging in a USB
device so it shows up as a wire device and a lot of laptops or devices will switch over to a wired
network when they see one and that is why this one is such a powerful there is no actual internet
on it it is just a local device I guess you could somehow set up multiple interfaces but anyways
it is a local wired device when you plug it in I think and it switches over to that for for internet
and in that way you have all the traffic goes through the device and you can do man in the
middle of the text with it SNBB1 and don't bow hashes and stuff so that is a cool piece of tech
that goes in the front pouch so we are going to grab it here with a conference and got some of these
some of these little pretty printed hacker things from salt works which is a company that
sponsored the event pretty cool guys dual kinds of fun stuff here is a USB
or a HDMI display port to HDMI f adapter so if you have you want to plug in something HDMI
or display port only have a display port then you can use that dongle to switch it
I don't want to put this on the port a USB-C charger it's kind of a USB
dongle you use them for switches so a USB-C to USB-C power and to USB ports looks like
one's a USB USB whatever and then it splits at HDMI so this is my portable I use it for my laptop
to do HDMI out and I also use it for the switch so when I'm traveling I can plug it into a thing
this is not anchor brand it's a rica so yeah that goes in the kind of USB device is
storage but place I keep it simple Dell wired mouse because I do not like wireless mice
so I put that in the bottom of one of my sections strangely enough I keep a toothbrush and a
deodorant at least so let's put our deodorant on it's on a 10 o'clock in the morning after
things giving so bear with me um so I've got deodorant I usually put that in the front pouch
but they're not really enough room for it now so it's going in kind of in the bottom
what also I have here I have a myriad of these Jabra or no Pelican Pelican no the guys that make USB
hits at Plantronics and they're numbered I've labeled out a number printer because I had two of them
and the coworker stepped on one and I kept losing them so I had like I had two or three of them
at some point and then I got two more so I have five and it's not just a total mess so these are
Plantronics USB things they've they're showing there where it's some want to say these are six
years old now they need new batteries and I probably won't get new batteries for them because they are
the plastic is deteriorating for the earpiece so that's no fun um here is a old style only key regular
only key um Password Idol it's a little bit different than your um what do you call these guys
your UB keys is real popular um you can store up to 12 passwords on this guy um this is all
the traditional only key the new duo is great because you don't have to because this only key sticks
out so if you have a laptop and you you're walking by something or you clip it it will go crunch
and you'll have a bad day which I have not done before but when the duo came out it's a small
form factor and it barely sticks out of the side um it's only a problem if you have very tiny
fingers but it has soft keys on it just like the only key to it is over I'm lying down like
green so only key duo is great that's very expensive um the problem with any kind of key based
authentication is guess what you had to buy to and I went to an event where the Google gave away
a thing and I don't know if it actually had to in there but it might have been sort of a scam because
if someone gives you a USB download you're guaranteed a USB security download you use it you're
guaranteed buy another one because that's what you can't have one USB download so here's number one
of my plan promise so see if we can find all of them I got five and one so we're missing two three
and four here is a retractable this octopus cable for USB-C USB to USB-C USB micro and Apple which
I don't need Apple but I needed micro and USB-C the problem with this is when I bought it I just
thought and I'm pretty sure I made sure that it was a data cable but it is not a data cable so this
cable might not actually go in my book back so instead of this I built possible numbers owners
of course prescription those go in my little pot and pots and the front tweezers
toothbrush and in toothpaste I actually have two toothbrushes one of these effects it's supposed to go
in my cart so I'll put that one in my pocket that will go out bound the microphone I'm using is a
Samsung something out of there Samsung go like it's pretty slick it's got a omnidirectional thing
and whatever so that will go back and let the bag at some point again I had the W Weston
Weston W20's here but I don't worry those as much because you gotta shove them way down in
your ears okay they have a good sound but you just have to show them now I have another one of
these retractable things because I bought three I refused to buy any cables but I finally broke
down about these because I like the retractable and I guess I'll have to keep one of them in my
book bag because they're too convenient for charging I don't always need data but I always need charging
these are another headphone brand don't even know the logo looks like a looks like an LG or it's
actually two headphones of the ear buds up and down I only know the brand of these but you are good
I made the custom ear buds with those so you let it set you put a paper towel or a towel on your
mouth while it's setting and you shove it in your ears just look for custom ear buds and then when
it's done you kind of get an exacto knife or a straight razor or whatever and cut off the end of
the earbud and then until you expose the actual speakers so these are custom ear buds I like
that a lot I still like my original ones that I made probably five years ago now and you start to turn
around here is a USB-C cable which is a USB-C data cable which I need so that's going to go into
the USB slot my speakers or my headphones are too big so they go in a little compartment a bigger
compartment I always bring umbrella which I think I did what's in my backpack when I was doing
this is a clone Winproof K-O-L-U-N-B Winproof umbrella so I put that at the bottom
the very bottom of my leg barely fits in this guy actually it's like trying to have a
rucksack I big I don't know how many thousands of big old beefy 20s 226000
million battery back those in this dumps were all the USB stuff goes you need to you have to have
a battery I keep a comb in my backpack just in case that goes in the front because it's small enough
I usually keep toiletries and very small electronics in the front pouch stuff like two picks
I have a Windows 10 UEFI boot USB stick I try to keep stuff to do tech support in my book bag at
all times I still have this vision tech 120 gig pocket SSD I really should update this this has been
run on two or three years old now so if I need to pop some boxes do some Linux stuff do some
hacking I use the Pintesting Framework instead of Cali or whatever not the biggest fan of that stuff so
I have another USB micro or mini I don't know which one the bigger the bigger fat it's
so this goes to a USB hub it looks like so I actually don't even need this anywhere that
goes in my USB box I would outside that I get some more toothpaste two tubes of toothpaste
I do the same thing on the OS one I buy it's little things like toiletries or whatever
you need so I will buy like five tubes of toothpaste and like five tubes of
neosporne things like that because I can never find anything actually here's a third here's a third
tube my wife is actually asking where all the toothpaste is I think it's all in my look bag
yeah I have three tubes of toothpaste in my book bag so that's a little bit
zealous so I'll keep the two small ones that are almost empty and give her back one of these
guys because she's has that six cents unlike me of ADD and I can't tell you that I've got three
two to two paste in my book bag what I had to buy was a USB C splitter for power and
auxiliary no auxiliary audio for the car so you just plug in it's actually better I should have
used it all the time but when I've lost my auxiliary port my auxiliary port for my phone I was
quite depressed but then I realized if you get a splitter then you only have to plug in USB C and
no other analog so it's actually nicer and I pooped on it forever because I'm old set my ways
but I don't like having to have a dongle sticking out of my phone if you ever get a dongle or any kind
of attachment for any kind of portable device or anything you're going to put in your pocket
I'll always get a 90 degree angle so this is this brand for a USB C to a stereo
a jack on your jack is a 45 or 4.5 or whatever they call it to 28 it's a KO Kupu K-O-O-P-O-O-P-A-O possibly
so it's a it's a USB C and then it's 90 degree angle and then it goes to a
regular headphone jack the problem is that some of my nicer well when I say nicer I mean this is
my 10 year old Sony XB these are my favorite XB to dual driver Sony's they are also 90 degree so
when it looks a bit like a puzzle when I plug in my phone because it comes out and then goes 90
degrees and then goes up and then goes 90 degrees so it's kind of weird and this one I fixed before
it's quite a mess you can get 90 degree angle repair kits for your stereo for your headphones but
I would do that excuse me I will not be repairing any more headphones I will always buy
um XLR based modular headphones so even when you do have issues with the wires
all you have to do is disconnect it and buy more XLR cables I don't know why I haven't done that in
the past 10 years um so my I think the west the western ones or whatever the W20s
are the modular XLR ones I will from now on and forever buy those because they are modular
and you can swap out the cables once they go bad the drivers rarely ever go bad
what goes bad is the cable right and this took me this 90 degree angle with the kit I
to buy it I had to buy a kit I got three different two different kinds of 90 degree angle
repair kits from Molly Bot all you express one of them was just a dumpster fire this other
one is big and bulky it's very square um and of course you know since you you're not a tiny
robot you have to buy big parts um and big parts don't necessarily look right and it's like a
90 degree angle and it's like hard to bend it sticks out way and I had to like multiple layers of shrink
ring as this it was an hour job just to repair these guys so I will never ever buy none you know
XLR whatever they call them based module or connections so you can just swap the wires out
I will never buy these again oh excuse me so this goes the way it goes fast
but yeah the USB-C 90 degree angle that goes in my front pouch because it's small my work badge
always goes it back in my book bag if it's not on my neck it goes in my book bag
that's my rule I have a this I take with a switch this is a four port um
power outlet outlets to go for um it's a compact little fold up it right the cord wraps around
it's the very short cord it wraps around itself I've had this guy for a thousand years
I've used it a lot so people will complain the way I was only one usually one's port here
I'm using it cool I'm not pull out this and boom yeah you know three extra ports
or at least one extra port actually has a reset button which is kind of odd
I don't know if that goes in the bottom it actually goes with my switch so that supposed to go
to my switch because I use that more portably than on the road stuff and then a nice still
adapter for work for travel so that goes in one of the pouches
I'm hand sanitizer goes on a side pouch
spare key I keep my spare key in my book bag so that way if I ever lose my keys from and I'm
traveling I can at least have a backup plan that if I have my book bag I can get my car again
newsborne pain relief I don't think this is the address stay away from the cream
based one I don't like it so this time your mind knows we'll get real dry and sometimes I
have newsborne up in here oh look we found number three no number three plan
toxic sets it has a headset from a different piece I have an entire bag
I mean this is a sandwich size bag almost full of ear buds and different kinds of ear buds
and connectors and whatever but I always end up using usually going custom if you're not
gonna go custom with the mix the silicon mix or whatever I would go with a phone like it's
you know the ear plugs you put in your your your and you twist them you shove in your ear and
they expand the expanding your phone the phone based ones I would go with those and you want
to get a small sit because they're pretty tight but depending on your headphone manufacturer
they're aftermarket aftermarket things for them but I keep all these connectors because
you never know when you lose one or someone like comes off and they're you know you collect enough
of them you'll have enough to support and you kind of divide so that's what this is on here it's like
a little right angle in your ear a little waffle the bit that sticks out like I don't know what they call
attention-based thing so that's number three in plane tronics I try to keep them charged at all times
I have a charge master nine thousand which is a twenty port USB charger a thirteen port USB charger
some crazy like that and it's in a drawer along with every single other type of charger that I have
that is a color coded so I have electric cable colored electric tape on different types of
connections so if it's a because they're all black like all the adapters are black right so you're
trying to you know you're in a dark drawer trying to find a USB micro plug you'll never find it
so I started taping the USB micro stuff so I at least know most of them are easy to find but the
USB micro that I can never find them so I'm like I'm a headset here's a little ego risk is p32
it's an ESP 32 on your wrist it looks like they double stuck the sticker on here oh this is
like a sticker you can put on something on anyway this was my attempt I bought a old Samsung Galaxy S5
whatever watch and then I bought this to try to work on my own assistant AI of myself
or some kind of way so I don't have to scream in my pocket to talk to Google or to make a note
and this thing the battery life on this is awful it's a it's a we call it
proof of concept kind of tech board I mean it looks cute it looks like an Apple watch but the
battery life is so awful with it if you had the wireless on it's not really gonna but ever so that's
going to be in the giveaway pile I can barely get it up to here are some backup um backup
crappy headphones so just in case I'm on a call or something or I need to join I'm going to get
rid of these and put them in a trash can probably these are sold they don't fit in my ears or anything
so we've got a choice I've been carrying them around having them as a backup at work but it's
not even worth it I keep plastic bags um if you're not for like me you had to hear
thrifty like me you'll keep plastic bags in your book bag or Tupperware in your car
so when you travel or you go to an event or go to a parents house or whatever and you get food
it's not although it's not attractive you can put in your leftovers in a plastic bag
a lot of people use Tupperware or whatever else and you know it's it's socially acceptable but honestly
if you get some like even gown size on these are freezer bags not that's a big
count size bag but they're freezer bags just strong and you can just put your leftovers in there it
doesn't matter me like form over function or function over form right um the pretty much wraps it
up with the book bag I wanted to talk about my setup here with the phone um oh good okay so we're still
good we're 23 minutes in a while if you're still here on we're into a lot of Android
gonna see if I can record in the background test test test test test test and see if it's actually working
okay so it's the first time using whatever this is I think it's actually a Samsung voice recorder
which I don't know why but I have Samsung phones oh my as well stick with something that I know
is not a thousand percent malware um so we'll go through the process um usually it ends up being
I've figured out that you have to get your two factor authentication copied over first so we use duo
and Microsoft authenticator and I use Google Authenticator so I use Google Authenticator for for
personal Microsoft for work and duo for work so that was the first priority was taking the life
phone the old phone and copying over the identities to the new phone which is kind of scary
because duo let's you back up your stuff to Google a personal Google account which that's not really
great and then Google Authenticator let's you back up Google Authenticator to itself which is also
a terrible idea so once I did do that I disabled it I disabled it and duo so you can't back up
restore backup from cloud or whatever to cloud backup whatever um that's just that sounds like a
horrible idea I'm so anyways um the first thing I did was the authenticator stuff
I realized that they moved off of a multi-user tenant like a different user mode
the work profile and user profile they moved away from that and now it's just one profile because
the way they had it set up the email was awful um we didn't have outlook but we were Microsoft shop so
it was kind of a dumpster fire so now it's everything's on one platform but they locked down third-party
applications so now you can't run a third-party APK it's I am fine with that except for
dns66 is a adbacher I use for third-party adbocking ads so now I get banners with you know you know
a scandily-clad women on some of the applications I use um so that's kind of discerning
things I have on here uh bandcamp uh let's see cali google calendar now there's a difference between
the calendar that comes with Samsung and the google calendar so you want to be aware of you know
calendars the same calendar calendar calendar no you want actual google calendar make sure you're
just enabling all the other Samsung contacts and Samsung calendar and Samsung clock and Samsung
this anything that has a google name um you want to make sure you're using the right one
on no-co controller copilot GPS is offline maps so if you're ever in the middle of nowhere you'll
have a cell phone signal you can use copilot to get offline maps I use beeper now and try to use beeper
for multi-checkline protocol it's still in the works they're eventually probably going to charge
quick right out it's free you sign up we'll wait about a month um i use it for discord and
slack and linked in uh it's more for direct messages right now um it's kind of wonky for a chat so
if you somebody at signs you you will get peamed it'll show like an ad sign and you know that someone
talking to you if you get a DM you'll definitely know because it will show up as a new thing
well to somebody who responds to the thread like say you ask a question and somebody responds to the
thread then um you won't see that so what i've been doing is i've been typing in my question
and then just hoping that the hoping that i don't miss their response um disc usage is great one word
let you see the space what's using all the space on your entire device not just one specific part of it
Google Docs Google Drive do a excel comes with the Microsoft screen i guess um 365
family link i use for the kid he's getting old enough to where he's starting to bypass stuff
Firefox nightly i did do a video on youtube for that if you search free load one on one
and uh Firefox ad blocking you'll get two videos one of them will tell you how to use
Firefox with any plugin and just and it just basically you turn on developer mode and you assign a
a plugin ID or like a plugin repo repository ID with whatever you want to use so i use my own
repository with different three or four different plugins and it it's kind of complicated that's
by the video for it now g y gly clocks like x g l y c o x is a graphic equalizer for android
so if it's too loud to quiet not enough space too much base i mean get a little bit more out of
uh whatever g no get our x of course if you don't not prescriptions uh or uh yeah prescriptions
you can get use get our x they get a good coupon deal and my pace is all we'll uh honor good
or x they'll hold them due though the ink bird app which is for my stupid barbecue wireless
piece of garbage juice SSH actually has a cloud based backup um if you pay their $2 for that
you can uh backup all your profiles in the cloud and you also can have the option to back up the
identities which includes passwords so if you don't want to backup your passwords for your SSH
stuff um you can choose to do that but it will least back up to profiles so i don't have to set up
you know my website my home profile my plex home profile my local profile it just backs all
up uh the cougar app for my medications uh google lens for text is text uh text uh OCR
I use it for OCR stuff um last pass of course um they've all been breached so don't hate
um google meet meant mobile um for you know looking at billing and stuff like that
misnotifications reminder that it's misnotifications i think called reminder
misnotifications reminder yeah um i use that for repeated notifications for work stuff
so if i have a work calendar event or a meeting or an email and or teams it will
dag be every what is every two minutes um multi v and c's the best v and c client i've seen
for android uh nova which is a desktop uh launcher for android it allows you to compress your desktop
and have a bunch of uh accessibility and easy features um b and nzb 360 that's a whole uh thing
with ndb's and setting up plex that the whole episode in itself um you can google all that uh
let's see outlook or work uh plex i use plex and plex amp is a music version of plex basically
um you can offline a bunch of music uh real link app only just for convenience um i hate their app
and they make you use it um i have an API on my website on my get hug that will pull uh full
HD from the real link cameras if you do not use their application their web up their full
app or their desktop app you can not easily access the full uh HD content you have to like
use their stupid apps and that's a feature not a bug um snap seed for photo stuff
stocard for um storing barcodes which you could actually do just browse using barcodes or uh
create a document that has your you know stupid uh barcodes on it uh talk about all because i
hate myself uh teams um telly health for personal health they use i think telly health uses um
better help uses telly health so a better help.com is pretty cost effective uh ways to get
uh mental help or uh to get uh talk to somebody um and everybody needs to talk to somebody i'm
sure you are that we all have problems we're all different uh even though we're all the same
uh so talk to somebody it trust me it'll help especially if you're in our relationship um
and you're trying to make sure everybody's happy uh tell i put telly's on everything um i have
about you know 15 dollar water bottle with a 22 dollar tile on it because i lose my cup all the time
wallet phone uh phone if you put the button on a tile it can get your phone so that works
good that way if you can't find your phone you can use it to find your phone um i've got one
on my wallet my phone my keys uh my water thing i think i have one uh for my child if he is
around or uh goes about so i can just hit that and it'll start beeping and i can have him come
he's 10 years old now he's getting a little slow before but it works great because i just hit
the button he's like yeah because if i yell for him he won't answer or he'll ignore me or
whatever it is but i've hit the tile button he stops everything he's doing and starts running towards
me and it's like dad um so that's kind of interesting um let's see what else tile not too much
year time to leave um google used to have a support for this but it would tell you when you're
supposed to leave for something so you give it like a 15 minute um google maps used to have
this feature but they probably got too many people jumping up and down because they're missing
um but it tells you based on like the traffic patterns and stuff when you're supposed to leave for
things that's pretty cool it's saved me i would say it saves me maybe once a month once every other
month from missing a meeting or being a little bit late for something that i would normally
black or uh a torque TO UTORQ UE that's ODB cheap ODB sensor i have for my car
that i use for just you know clearing codes and getting basic codes and trying to
figure stuff out myself google translate i got twitch for uh break-sec security that break-sec
BR-A-K-E-sec security spot guess those into um Uber app um always keep that up to date because
if you're credit cards expires or something and you're trying to get a Uber and you have to
like put on a credit card and spend 20 minutes trying to get the app activated um that's what
took me so long with the phone stuff is that i want to sing it took me all day all day i spent
on my phone trying to get it set up and even then there's a little bits and pieces of stuff i
just set up but i'd log in you know so it's last pass and then set up you know everything
everything that once authentication which is every app now um the problem is it my google voice
is the app name is voice which starts with the V which is at the end of all of the app so by the
time i got to google voice i had missed the text and a call from my wife because i was supposed to
do dinner and take the kit to a uh scouts more scouts yeah well we'll start scouts thing so
on that trip to the kind of annoying and my whole life is run by google voice and google
hounders and work stuff uh i have yelp only just to look for restaurants that are near me um
you know you get burned a few times um land zoom for work stuff too that's pretty much it
we'd normally have dns66 and i would also normally have like uh some kind of after market
youtube app to download youtube videos but i can't do that um so i need to find a way to download
youtube videos without a third party abk um i guess you could use to uh youtube vl with a terminal
emulator which that doesn't sound like a bad idea actually not think about it um you can also
probably launch fabk's within the terminal emulator third party there might be some
chenanigans you can do around that if you do like a terminal emulator and then we'll launch an
abk inside of that terminal emulator um maybe that's the way to escape out i doubt that would work
but i wouldn't be surprised at what because if you block their party abk's you're not blocking
arbitrary code execution right um fundamentally if you're not using application whitelisting then
you're you're you're you're allowed to launch whatever you want to launch so if one program is
allowed to execute another program then you you're taught new win um so there might be a way to do
it with a terminal emulator to launch third party uh in terms of the application so i will look into
that and do a show if i figured out otherwise you have to downgrade your phone um brood it and then
upgrade uh you have to use a third party wrong or something which that is not going to go well with
with work people anyways um got through six minutes on what you guys go um i know i've been all over
the place for this but i figured i'd record something while i'm going through my book bag and uh
figurine stuff out uh don't have any upcoming projects here uh but uh yeah jambree if you're
into android emulation testing pin testing stuff um check out my jambree if you want to contribute
or help out um or be on hosts or co-host or whatever um i knew looking for people
looking for android development ninjas uh android uh fantastic ninjas uh to help me um my next steps
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