From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-11 16:11, Paul wrote:   
   > On Wed, 2/11/2026 8:58 AM, micky wrote:   
   >> OT  I'm going out of town for 3 months, and I'm 1) making an image of my   
   >> SDD  before I go, and 2) separately backing up all my data except maybe   
   >> the stuff in the User folder, on two diffeent drives.   
   >>   
   >> Should I take drive 2, my 2.5 inch spinner data backup drive, with me?   
   >> I'm afraid I'll lose it, because of the airline or somewhere else, and   
   >> I'll have nothing.   In the past it never even occurred to me to take   
   >> it.   
   >>   
   >   
   > 007, you should sew an SD card into your jacket :-)   
   >   
   > They are available up to around the 1TB level.   
   >   
   > My laptop has a connector hole for one, but then   
   > the hardware there only runs at 10MB/sec.   
   >   
   > There will be a lot of activity at borders and airports,   
   > so lots of opportunities to "lose this and that".   
   >   
   > There are various rules about bringing personal   
   > items across borders. Generally speaking, traveling   
   > naked is the absolutely safest option when it comes   
   > to bureaucracy. Nobody can ask you "do you have   
   > anything to declare?" when they can see you don't   
   > have anything to declare.   
      
   I remember a SciFi novel, I don't remember the name, where she was an   
   interstellar courier; she had a little pouch on her belly, surgically   
   made, to carry the stuff. So even naked she was carrying it.   
      
   ChatGpt says it is Friday (1982) by Robert A. Heinlein.   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
           Carlos E.R.   
      
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