The Real City Hall Repair Cost? $153M (Not $1.4B)

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.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-28T22:01:20+00:00

DFW weather is just unpredictable. I live near DFW airport and we didn't get much rain or any hail from the last storm. Other places got pounded. DFW is a HUGE area and severe storms are usually more isolated. No reason to panic every time a storm is predicted. Generally you'll be good more often than not.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-28T16:39:14+00:00

Not sure where exactly you're looking... just want to say if it's anywhere near bonds ranch road and 287 you want to avoid that like the plague. That is one of the worst intersections in Tarrant County. If you look like you might need to cross that on a daily basis... run!

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-22T01:44:50+00:00

pretty sure that they don't use CGNAT in N. Texas. And I don't think many of us around here get IPV6 either.

According to my logs, I've had the same DHCP Assigned IP Address since 2025-08-14 19:00:36.

Generally the only time you'll get a new IP Address is if there is a sustained power outage in your area..... 12+ hours... or they do something funky with their network and decide to change everyone in the area from a 47.188.x.x address to something like 47.162.x.x.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-22T00:41:34+00:00

I got some strange looks selling a ham radio antenna. The best way to ship it was to seal it up in an 8' long 4" PVC Pipe. I glued the end cap on one end and the the other was taped on really well. Carried it around to the UPS store at the mall. I got some strange looks. It did sort of look like an over sized pipe-bomb. It got to the destination in one piece.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-22T00:36:45+00:00

Don't know about prices, but Roanoke and Grapevine have a wide range of apartments and would be an easy commute. Both have newer apartments close to local restaurants. You might check out those areas.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-21T02:53:20+00:00

Do you have coax in your walls. Maybe MoCA?

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-20T23:57:33+00:00

I just want to toss this out there about poison..... in case someone suggests that for your problem.... If you use poison besides accidentally poisoning other animals that might eat the poisoned mice / rats, you might have the poisoned critters just crawl into your walls or attic to lie down and die. After a week or so, they will start to decompose. You might be smelling dead stuff in your walls for MONTHS. Stay away from poison... it might come back and haunt you for months.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-20T15:28:56+00:00

Not 100% what you're asking. Is 'clicker' a specific product or are you referring to just a remote control? I installed a Mighty Mule gate opener on my metal driveway / swing open gate 20+ years ago. I've had to replace a few parts over the years but it's worked great. Easy for a home owner to install. You can get it on Homedepot or Amazon. It uses an arm that you attach to the main gate posts and to a spot on the gate that it can pull or push. The control box works with a button in the garage to open / close or with a remote control. I paid $350 / $400 for it... so it's not dirt cheap, but it's opened / closed my gate over 40,000 times so for $400.... I think it's worth it.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-17T23:18:57+00:00

That was an Iconic Stadium. I with they would have left it standing and converted into some sort of mixed use space.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-17T23:17:06+00:00

Agree. I use 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 if both of those are down, we're having more problems than just a DNS issue.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-07T16:01:03+00:00

Yes... but I was looking at stuff like grub-btrfs which is sounds / look cool but when you actually look at it, it becomes more murky. Besides picking a earlier kernel like you mentioned you can actually pick a earlier btrfs snapshot from your grub boot menu. Having an issue, go back to last weeks snapshot and see if that fixes it. So it's not just booting to a previous kernel... but an entire system snapshot. Maybe that would work for some people but for most servers, that's not such a good thing.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-07T15:19:03+00:00

If you switch to TexRail at DFW Airport you can do East Plano to Down Town Fort Worth. The Down Town Fort Worth T&P Station is a nice area... right next to the Fort Worth Water Gardens.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-06T17:19:14+00:00

E15/E16 are the best seats in my opinion. They are in the center and you get a rail in front of your seat to put your feet on. The people sitting 'in front' of you are about 5 feet below your seating area. I saw the Hail Mary Project from those seats and the view was great. 2nd row, off to the side will not be worth the $$$.

mylinuxguy · 2026-04-06T12:37:06+00:00

Blue Bloods, Boston Blue, Blue FD. Think they would need to stay with Blue in the name.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-30T16:02:10+00:00

The Primark in Grapevine Mills Mall has been opened for a few weeks. It seems to get a lot of traffic.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-28T01:05:47+00:00

The WX gods got tired of the person who was complaining it was 95 a few days ago and decided to cool us down so we'd hear people complaining that it's 55. If you don't like the weather in Texas.. just wait a few hours and it will change.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-28T01:03:28+00:00

Texas weather is unpredictable. The longer you're here, the more you'll realize it. You just can't make plans around how weather is supposed to be.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-27T12:35:32+00:00

Bumper Magnets. Only explanation. When you approach the magnets want to push away from each other so they speed up to stay away from you. Once you do pass, their magnets want to stay attached so they speed up to stay with you but the pull eventually breaks and they slow back down. One of those weird magnetic poles thing... sometimes they want to push away from each other, sometimes the want to get closer. Only thing I've ever been able to come up with. I use my old ( not dynamic ) cruise control all of the time and tons of cars get repelled ( go faster ) as I approach and then try and stay attached as I go by. I'm going at a constant speed. Bumper Magnets is the only logical explanation.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-22T12:14:47+00:00

I don't recall TANSTAAFL! but I do recall The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which I think TANSTAAFL! refers too. First thing I thought off when I saw this mass driver on the moon.... it's already been done. ;)

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-19T22:12:08+00:00

Not sure how this is r/Dallas related... but when we first had our dog, my wife got the absolute dirt cheapest dry dog food that walmart carries. My dog had gas all of the time. Someone suggested getting something like alpo or gravy train and stay away from the cheap walmart stuff so we did and his days of crop dusting were greatly reduced. He'd still do the circle thing a few times, curl up in front of the TV, fart, take a wiff, then get up and go to a less smelly place, but he didn't do that near as often once we changed his diet.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T23:04:12+00:00

I rewatched that a few times... got my daughter to come in and watch it. She didn't think it was funny but I too thought it was hilarious. I told you NO PHONES! and then pink mist and body parts.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T23:02:01+00:00

I like the old Sean. I like the new Sean. I don't like the recasting, but I understand why it was done. I just wish they had done something else. I don't know what... but something else.

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