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Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN (archive.is)
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Does this only apply to Windows 11 or also to 10? I know the ID even works if you installed Windows on a virtual machine. I'm on Linux, but I have Windows 10 installed for very specific tasks (in example to update firmware of my 8bitdo gamepad and configure its settings, because they suck and don't provide a Linux tool for this).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    apparently they do now - kinda? https://web.8bitdo.com/ but seems to require a chromium-based browser

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    You mean the firmware can be updated over the browser?? Well, I use Firefox and they don't support Firefox. Another L from 8bitdo. (But thanks for the link nontheless!)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Surely using a chromium browser just for this is better than having a whole windows VM just for this.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's not the point.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree that it sucks they don't have better support for Linux and for Firefox, and wasn't trying to refute that.

    But like, given the two options I'd rather the browser solution than the VM one.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    I already have the VM setup. I'm also not arguing VM vs browser. I'm just disappointing that I can't try it out in browser. They don't support the native driver, nor the browser for their controller on Linux. Its just disappointing. Also does the browser version support configuring the controller too? If not, then I need a VM anyway, because there is stuff I want to configure (at least initially I needed to).

    As an alternative, I've seen in the past some mentioning being able to use their Windows software over WINE. And someone pointed out how to setup without WINE, browser or VM by configuring the system). So there are plenty of options now, just not officially.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    clicking through that link, it obviously blocks my zen browser, and recommends google's chrome, chromium, ms edge and opera.

    this seems like a massive L still. hopefully it's not hard-coded to require those 4 only, and a stripped down chromium browser can be used. I don't have a race in this horse yet, becauseI did consider 8bitdo controllers once my gamesir controller dies. maybe I'll just have to save up for a steam controller, even though Valve still doesn't ship to my country, and I refuse to buy from scalpers. even legit businesses here are scalping hard... fucking scalpers.

    my first draft comment to you was a bit hopeful that maybe stripped down chromium browsers can replace your singular use windows VM. I apologize for assuming

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    As for the Steam Controller, I have purchased it and want to warn you about something. The controller is designed to work only as a controller, when Steam is running. Which is a deal breaker to use it outside Steam for me, because I don't want to have it running in the background when not playing on Steam. So I end up using it in Steam only. There are third party efforts for drivers to make it usable without Steam, but they have all their own quirks. However the SDL 3 library now supports Steam Controller. So any application updating to SDL 3 comes with free Steam Controller native support, in example RetroArch.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder. I've read that somewhere about the Steam controller. I'm not in a rush to buy a new controller, as mine is still working and the availability still sucks here.

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