not if you’re goin’ that frequently.

preferable by public transit

good call, driving into the city was hell when i lived there in the 90s and it’s only gotten worse.

the trains are great if one goes where you need it to. so i guess the absolute first thing to do is check the service maps for washington metro as well as vre/marc (commuter rail). if her office is near a station, that can quickly narrow down possible locations to near stations on the same line(s).

many of the suburban metro stations were designed to commute to themselves (park and rides), with lots of parking, bike racks and lockers, and kiss-and-ride (drop-off) lanes. some of the city stations have housing on the same block or literally right above them, even.

i’d shy away from alexandria for now, cuz that’s where amazon is building “hq2” (that’s along the blue/yellow metro in va).

lucky you.

i was treated to the purple dinosaur from hell by mine.

plot twist: some of the slop kiddies are sony employees that infiltrated the project.

well, i just fired-up the last of the solus test systems i had here. this one a basic budgie. hadn’t been booted since march. it took all the updates (and there was a lot) just fine. i’m gonna drop another 8gb into it (so it’s 16gb, but it will still have hdd) and use it on my work table as a second (or ‘third’) pc.

turning in that bug bounty was especially heinous.

witnessing that would’ve been the end of the project for me, too.

the walmart store brand sliced bread has been made so cheap now, there’s no ‘substance’. it can’t stand up in a toaster without literally “wilting”. so it will toast crooked and then not pop up because it gets stuck. i have an old toaster, probably from the 1980s. not for ‘bagels’ either, just a normal narrow-slot toaster. it has no safety cut-off on it… i dunno if that’s even a thing… but it will not shut off the heating elements when it gets stuck and can’t “pop up”. the whole thing is a fire hazard.

that’s a deep subject.

i use an old one (the blue accented one) of those keyboards as my ‘remote control’ when i’m watching on the ‘tv’. works pretty well for that… running a media player and web streaming. i did try doing actual ‘work’ with it once, but i had to connect a different keyboard to do any serious typing.

i used to have a lap desk attached to the top of a beanbag-like pillow. same type of thing my mom and grandma would use to do crafts and stuff while they watched their ‘stories’ (soaps).

what i imagine, and isn’t shown in any of the panels, is that the little table with the phone on it is actually next to and ‘faces’ a comfy upholstered chair sitting in the corner of the bedroom.

shit. i was just thinking “hmm. it actually feels like autumn outside today”. sorry 'bout that. won’t happen again. but i fear it may be too late to contain the beast.

fake it 'til you makebreak it.

that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.

the major OEMs build far more systems and pay less for what goes inside. they also pay less for windows licenses and can also make money by preloading shit (they basically get paid to put windows on).

yea… the first ones date back to the 1970s

i remember when gas stations had to fabricate a “1” to put in front when prices first went over $1 per gallon because their price signs didn’t have a ‘dollars’ digit.

they also had to go back and reshoot some, as filming in new york had concluded months earlier.

i haven’t had a handheld or pocket calculator in over thirty years, when i was last in school. so the “still use today” bit is not on an upside-down calculator.

good luck. see ya next week.