Yeah, a lot of people leave their phone out of the EDC because they use it to take the picture.

The case is a good stand-in.

In my previous role I was in IT for a small organization. We issued cell phones to all employees.

I had one of those paperclip containers with the magnetic rim on my desk full of sim card removal tools.

The drive is LUKS encrypted. It is an option when formatting the drive using Gnome Disks in Linux.

Whenever you plug it in, it asks for the password.

On the drive I have a bash script that syncs my home directory to a folder on the drive using rsync.

I don't create new files personal files very often and they are backed up in other ways too (to a NAS and also encrypted and uploaded to cloud storage) so I tend to only run the sync script about every other week or so.

I have a separate script and folder to backup my work laptop as well. for the work laptop I back my home directory and the /etc directory, because I have some customized configurations in etc. I run this every week.

Because the drives are USB C I can plug them into my phone for transferring files. The encrypted drive can be mounted using an app called ZUGate.

I have been using this pair since 2020, I lost them for a couple of months and picked up a pair of Tozo t8s. I didn't like them as much and the case was too big.

When I found them again, I gave the t8s to my son.

BTW, They still sell the t6s on Amazon.