{"id":64085,"date":"2026-06-01T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64085"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:41:21","slug":"backpack-rodrigo-ghedin-fib16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/backpack-rodrigo-ghedin-fib16\/","title":{"rendered":"My backpack at FIB16, in Bel\u00e9m (PA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/fib.cgi.br\/pt\/fib16\">Brazilian Internet Forum (FIB16)<\/a>, in Bel\u00e9m,&nbsp;Par\u00e1, I carried a backpack to the convention center with basic items to spend the day there, do the work I was hired to do, and when I had some free time (which was rare), take a look at this <strong>Manual do Usu\u00e1rio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The descriptions follow the order from left to right, top to bottom.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Case Logic Huxton Backpack:<\/strong> I like it because it&#8217;s discreet and has plenty of compartments. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s waterproof, but I discovered the fabric has some water-repellent technology on the outbound flight, when someone spilled a cup of water on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacBook Air (M1):<\/strong> It&#8217;s four years old and, despite Apple already being on the fifth generation of its own chip, it still delivers more than I need. I think this design looks prettier than the new MacBook&nbsp;Air models. I believe I&#8217;ll keep using it for several more years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64042\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mochila-rodrigo-ghedin-fib16-notebook.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a MacBook Air (M1) with a Manual do Usu\u00e1rio logo sticker over the Apple logo.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64042\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enough Apple advertising. Photo: Rodrigo Ghedin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sweater:<\/strong> Cities in northeastern Brazil \u2014 and now I know, in the north as well \u2014 are hot, which leads locals to go overboard with air conditioning in indoor spaces. FIB16, like FIB15 in Salvador,&nbsp;Bahia in 2025, was freezing the entire time. I&#8217;d keep a sweater in my backpack to put on when I arrived at the convention center. (If I&#8217;d worn it when leaving the hotel, I probably would have melted on the way.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thermal mug:<\/strong> I got this one from the NIC.br team. It has the logo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.br\/podcasts\/nos-da-internet\/\">podcast <cite>N\u00f3s da Internet<\/cite><\/a>&nbsp;(pt_BR) and kept water temperature well \u2014 though I preferred room temperature over ice-cold.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog stickers:<\/strong> Some from the \u201cfirst generation,\u201d made in 2016, and others I made about two years ago. I stopped sending them to new paying subscribers, so whenever I go somewhere where I&#8217;ll meet lots of people, I bring them along to hand out. (Note that I put one on top of the Apple logo on my notebook before boarding this trip.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sony RX100 V camera:<\/strong> It looks like those old Cybershot models, but it&#8217;s relatively recent and delivers beautiful photos with its one-inch sensor. I stopped taking photos for leisure years ago and thought Bel\u00e9m would be a good place to revisit that old hobby.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kindle (11<sup>th<\/sup> generation):<\/strong> I used the Kindle at two moments: on the outbound and return flights and during podcast recordings to follow the script. Since it was in front of the cameras, I asked the production team to put some stickers on it to hide the Amazon branding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samsung power bank:<\/strong> These days, power banks must travel outside your backpack and can&#8217;t be used during flights. I got this one from Samsung at an event in 2017. The capacity is small (~5,000&nbsp;mAh) and I ended up not using it. I don&#8217;t usually carry one, but I thought it was wise to have it on hand being so far from home because <a href=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/the-best-iphone\/\">my iPhone&nbsp;SE<\/a> has never had good battery life and, after four years, it&#8217;s only gotten worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64041\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mochila-rodrigo-ghedin-outro-angulo.jpg\" alt=\"Backpack items seen from another perspective.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64041\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Rodrigo Ghedin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Case with Xiaomi electric toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss:<\/strong> You have to have this to freshen up your mouth after meals, especially lunch. (I ate all three days at the event itself, which had catered a buffet.) I was skeptical about electric toothbrushes but ended up really liking it. Maybe I&#8217;ll write about it in the future.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microfiber cloth:<\/strong> It works for cleaning screens and eyeglass lenses. I got new glasses a few days before the trip, tried to save money on the lenses, and ended up regretting it: they get dirty more easily and are harder to clean.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cables:<\/strong> I had others, like my notebook cable, which I left at the hotel. (Thank goodness for MacBook battery life!) For the event, I only brought a USB-A to Lightning cable for my iPhone and a USB-A to USB-C cable with a USB-A to USB-C adapter to transfer interview scripts to my Kindle using Calibre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mint candies:<\/strong> To freshen your breath.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hand sanitizer:<\/strong> Always useful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protein bar:<\/strong> I&#8217;m not one for eating these bars, but I thought they&#8217;d be useful. And they were: the recording schedule almost never lined up with the coffee that NIC.br offered to FIB participants, and even when it did, there would be a crowd around the tables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear in the photo, but wherever I go, I bring my \u201cfirst-aid kit\u201d: medications for common ailments.<\/p>\n<p>The camera also didn&#8217;t make it into the shot because I used it to take the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Brazilian Internet Forum (FIB16), in Bel\u00e9m,&nbsp;Par\u00e1, I carried a backpack to the convention center with basic items to spend the day there, do the work I was hired to do, and when I had some free time (which was rare), take a look at this Manual do Usu\u00e1rio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64040"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1552,588,2259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64087,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64085\/revisions\/64087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}