• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    even running a few virtual machines on one host can take this further

    edit: now I’m wondering if someone will make a botnet virus to do exactly this to send companies bankrupt

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      10 months ago

      Just keep recreating the Proton prefix in Steam for Linux.

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        10 months ago

        What’s the command for generating a new /etc/machine-id?

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          10 months ago

          as root

          rm -f /etc/machine-id
          dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id