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Cake day: May 29th, 2024

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  • 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).


  • any ol’ live media with gnome disk utilities (aka ‘disks’) or gparted would be enough to have an easy gui to clear the partitions. i usually use a linuxmint usb for that (and did use for that purpose a half-dozen times today).

    it appears qubes uses anaconda (same as fedora) for its installer. there should be an option in it, where you pick your target disk, to ‘reclaim’ space. so op should be able to just do that during the (re)install process if they don’t care about the data on the disk.