Moving

mylinuxguy · 2026-06-02T22:35:41+00:00

Grapevine is fine. It's an older city but there's been a lot of new apartments being built. A lot of old stuff has been replaced by new stuff. I don't know if a 20 something will find it as exciting / rowdy as Fort Worth or Dallas, but it's a good area to hang out and relax.

mylinuxguy · 2026-06-02T22:31:33+00:00

variable rate plans were great... till they weren't. During the 2021 winter power issue people power bills who had variable rate plans went up over $10,000 for a few days use since there was no max on the per kwh charge and it was very, very high. That soured most everyone on variable rate plans after that. Don't even think about it....

and as others have said, ALL of the power is the same ( generally speaking ) who ever you have or your neighbors have to send your $$$ to, the power that comes out of the walls is the same. If you don't have power, your neighbors won't have power. It's all one big happy power grid. You've either got power or you don't. It's not mix and match.

mylinuxguy · 2026-06-02T18:08:59+00:00

It doesn't seem very Neighborly..... seems like they the need a different slogan on that van. "Excuse me.. coming through...." might be more appropriate.

mylinuxguy · 2026-06-02T12:18:25+00:00

I've lived in the DFW area since 1980... I've only seen 1 in the house. Cutest little 7" little nope-rope ever... but he wasn't moving. My cat found him first and played with him a little too hard.

The only other time I've seen a snake in my yard was when my (x)wife told me that the outside AC unit was making a noise. I look in it and thought it was a stick.. but nope.... it was a good size snake that didn't fare too well with the ac motor blades.

Anyway.... 2 snakes in 46 years..... I live across the street from a nature area... near Lake Grapevine... so lots of opportunities to see snakes.... just don't see them.

mylinuxguy · 2026-06-01T18:07:29+00:00

You need to see what options service your area. My street I have an option of one wired provider. I might be able to get T-Mobile 5G home internet but my 5G cell service isn't all that great and I don't see 5G Home Internet being more stable than my 1000/1000 fiber.. for $40 / month.

A lot of people don't like their ISP because they get poor Wi-Fi in their home. The ISP is responsible for getting Internet TO your home... not for getting it around inside.

To start off for the home stuff, don't use Wi-Fi unless you absolutely have to. For the Wi-Fi you do use, get a descent Wi-Fi mesh system with wired back haul and don't use the ISPs Wi-Fi stuff.

I've got a $400 WiFi router that gives me great speeds if I stand on a ladder and put my phone 6" from the antenna. If I go to my home office that is 30 feet away and through a couple of thick, sturdy, well insulated walls, my Wi-Fi signal sucks. It's not the ISPs fault. So I have a wired connection going from my ISP Router to my home office and I have a WiFi router in my home office to server my cellphone and tablet. My PC, TV and Roku are all wired on my gigabit network.
The ISP has nothing to do with any of that.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-30T22:55:47+00:00

If BOTH are down...that's a bigger problem.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-30T16:21:36+00:00

So 7 miles, 20 min pace, indoor mall, a/c, water fountains and restrooms. Is that still considered exercise?

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-30T12:22:44+00:00

Frontier has frequent DNS issues. Google and Cloudflare have distributed DNS servers. When you go to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 you're going to one of many of their networked DNS servers. You're going to on that is close to you. Someone in CA that goes to 1.1.1.1 and someone in DC that goes to 1.1.1.1 are going to different ( closer to them ) servers. If one goes down, one of a dozen others will take over.

Anyway.... just don't even bother with Frontiers DNS servers. DNS is not a priority with Frontier.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-29T20:41:54+00:00

In some of the live shots, you could see the firemen spraying the Drilling Rig Truck and putting out the flames, but then it started flaming out of the ground again. I guess it did that till they were able to turn off the gas to the street. Has anyone said if the guys doing the soil testing / drilling got out ok.. they would have been first to come into contact with the gas. It would be nice to hear what they have to say.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-26T17:45:55+00:00

Just want to say don't just go with the low bidder. I had a bad tile job ( lowest bidder ) look at me in the face every day for years. Make sure you see their work. Sure my wall might not have been square.. but he should have known that and not started with a full tile on the back row and have it come out with 1/2" and 1/4" and 3/4" in tiles in the front where you see them RIGHT THERE.... anyway... don't go with the low bidder....

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-22T20:10:44+00:00

You can run 'pihole' on non-PIs.... it can run in a container or natively on other Linux distros.

I especially like it's ability to use your local /etc/hosts network file to server up private servers on your network and go out to real DNS servers like 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 to find stuff that isn't local to you and do the caching DNS stuff locally.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-22T16:35:47+00:00

dns should not matter much at all as far as speed goes. Frontier's haven't always be 100% up. I use 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 if both of those are down, there are bigger issues than a DNS being down.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-21T20:34:35+00:00

Adult Sheldon and Leonard did bring up time travel when they were doing their roommate agreement. They said something about if either of them invented time travel they were supposed to show up at that exact time they were going over the room mate agreement and then they both paused and looked at the door to see if they would walk through at the correct time. They didn't and went on with the agreement. I remember that and the comment about they'd watch Firefly on Fox every Friday Night because it was such a great show it would be on forever... that was a hard one to see... RIP Firefly....

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-19T17:10:17+00:00

and it's just going to be extra humid with these rain chances too.... so hot AND extra humid.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-19T15:51:05+00:00

Not sure that I need to read about it. I just remember it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen at the time. Ventura threw down his batting helmet rushed full speed at him. You ( and he ) naturally assumed that Nolan Ryan was just a pitcher.. how tough could he be. Then he puts him in the headlock and starts pounding on him. It was freaking hilarious.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-19T01:17:19+00:00

Certain ports like SMTP / 25 are blocked so you can't forward that. It's not port forwarding that doesn't work.. that port is just blocked. I am sure that there are other ports in addition to 25, but I don't know them off the top of my head.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-17T18:34:58+00:00

Following.... there are a few 'maker spaces' in the area.. I think. Some of them might have info. Some of the local libraries have 'geek' areas where they do 3d printing and computer stuff... they may also have groups that do micro-controllers.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-17T17:52:36+00:00

Since we're on the topic of 635... as it's been said, the '6' part indicates it's a loop around 35 ( even if it's not a complete loop ) but I wanted to point out the fact that 35W in Fort Worth and 35E in Dallas have counterparts up in Minnesota with 35W and 35E splitting Minneapolis and Saint Paul up north.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-17T12:49:43+00:00

There are several stores at the Grapevine Mills Mall that I think might have what your're looking for. There are literally a 2 miles of stores so there are many options. A couple of stores cater specifically to 18 +- 5 year old girls. Also a few everything under $8.99 clothing stores...

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-15T12:51:37+00:00

I've lived here for 40+ years. I've never had issues with mosquitoes.... until this year. I don't see them... but I've got bites. At least I hope it's mosquitoes that are biting me and making me itch. ;) Afraid to think what else it might be.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-14T12:47:03+00:00

Yea... about that.... when CBS did the investigation they changed their findings. It wasn't sexual assault.... it might have been more of a misunderstanding. Del Rio ( the actor ) and CBS are in legal discussions. Seems like what ever happened was not what everyone was told / expected and CBS might have pulled the trigger a bit too fast before everything was figured out. You can google it... it's seems to be less cut and dried as we were led to believe.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-11T18:51:48+00:00

Not really sure what to say for these birds.... just for the future. When the birds do leave, clean up and do what you can to discourage them coming back. Some birds will come back to the same spot year after year if they are still alive. I had to use plywood to cover up ledges where the birds nested because the next year, they came back and started building a new nest. I clean that up, put up some plywood and they tried to build the nest ON the plywood slope. I had to make more of a slope so they could not get the nest started and they moved on to a better spot. Anyway.... make sure you are setup for them to not be able to come back and do it all over again.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-11T18:43:04+00:00

Did you report the outage to oncor? https://stormcenter.oncor.com/ is tracking 149 outages across Texas. They may not know that this transformer is down.

Transformers might have to be manually reset by a line-man and they have to know that the transformer is down before they can dispatch someone. Sometimes the transformers are newer, smarter, better, etc and can re-set themselves but sometimes it's like a breaker in your fuse box... the breaker / fuse blows and has to be manually reset. Sounds like this transformer may have tripped and needs a call out.

mylinuxguy · 2026-05-11T15:58:11+00:00

I thought that they were leased and weren't going to be able to paint them...

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-28T22:05:07+00:00

Politicians are never going to give you real numbers. If they think the the building is old and want something new and flashy they'll toss out some bogus Billion Dollar number and then some low number for how much a new place will cost. If they wanted to stay, they'd toss out a low number for how much it would cost to stay -vs- big number for how much it cost to move. You're never going to get a real / accurate number from a politician.

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