What you suggest sounds a lot like the “Briefcase” that was in Windows 9x. I don’t know of something similar, especially not something integrated into Linux.

The easiest way might be to setup SyncThing to share all of your different folders and then subscribe to those you need on your laptop. Just be aware that if you delete a file on your laptop it will also be deleted on your desktop on the next sync. Unsubscribe from the folder first before freeing up the disk space.

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What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware? Also, they could be made so that there’s a simple API (like a serial device exposed via USB) and apps for Win/macOS/Linux to update the label. But I guess the demand was never there.

Same here. Like “Cold! Look elsewhere…” 🤣

It’s a shame these never took off. I’d love for my various USB drives to have displays that show their labels and maybe even contents.

What’s the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

Rather use dd_rescue as it’ll retry if it encounters any reading issue.

This! And I’d probably add par2 parity files - just in case some bitrot happens.

And it has repair tools that actually work and can make the filesystem usable again.

Back in the days we had these things. But I doubt this would work with USB-C adapters and a Steam Deck.

Most modern Intel chipsets support “Dual Role Device” (DRD) where they can act as host or client as needed.

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