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SV_BubbleTimetoday at 5:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Obvious workaround to get off windows and use Linux…

But do any popular linux distributions use an identifier? Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, Arch, etc?

It seems an attractive way for devs to work out telemetry. Awful in reality; but I imagine attractive.


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moepstartoday at 5:22 PM

At least Debian and Ubuntu have /etc/machine-id, presumably easily changed - but it’s there.

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