@scottalanmiller How are you liking Salt Stack?

Also, thank you for the followup. You never know when someone else will run into the same thing.

Edgerouters can now handle custom dynamic dns providers without the need of the script - here is the guide with Cloudflare as the example: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204976324

I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.

So I stopped using the text install and went to full graphical and... it started working. WTF

I'm not going to knock the article, cause I do agree, Linux Distros are constantly becoming better, and software developers are realizing they can still make a dime by developing their software so it works on Linux.

My issue is in the work-space and stupid black box appliances that require archaic software to operate that keeps me tethered to Windows.

If I could rip those solutions out, I'd be using CentOS as my daily office driver.

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@dafyre said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@DustinB3403 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around?

Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it.

Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA.

@dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? 😉

*quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back*

Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*

But you learned something along the way. 😄

systemd has got this since early development. this, among other things (PID 1 master process...etc), was one of the reasons Poettering designed systemd. It borrowed this idea from other systems like this

So I also realized that if you have even a small number of records, a dictionary will become super long. So you can compact the dictionary like this:

records: ns1: {forward: 10.1.30.11, type: A, last: 11, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.} ansible: {forward: 10.1.30.5, type: A, last: 5, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.}

So while the other way may be easier to read, this saves a TON of space.