diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/assorted.nix b/hosts/common/programs/assorted.nix
index 2daabb30..e86d0b08 100644
--- a/hosts/common/programs/assorted.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/assorted.nix
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ in
     #   - debugging?
     consoleUtils = declPackageSet [
       "alsaUtils"  # for aplay, speaker-test
-      "binutils"  # for strings; though this brings 80MB of unrelated baggage too
+      "binutils-unwrapped"  # for strings; though this brings 80MB of unrelated baggage too
       # "cdrtools"
       "clinfo"
       "dmidecode"