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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just keep recreating the Proton prefix in Steam for Linux.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

as root

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