• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

      Just keep recreating the Proton prefix in Steam for Linux.

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

          as root

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