▲ 344 ▼ Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN (archive.is) submitted 3 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children) What happens if you erase it though? System32 moment? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sickday@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago You can check the man pages for this file, but in short it gets regenerated. It's used to determine whether this is the first boot or not. permalink fedilink source parent [–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago Honestly not sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks something with D-Bus based on skimming the man pages, but I've never dug into it. Its not exposed in containers I run though, and I haven't run into anything that broke there as a result... 🤷️ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago You can check the man pages for this file, but in short it gets regenerated. It's used to determine whether this is the first boot or not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago Honestly not sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks something with D-Bus based on skimming the man pages, but I've never dug into it. Its not exposed in containers I run though, and I haven't run into anything that broke there as a result... 🤷️ permalink fedilink source parent