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Re:Devuan considers machine IDs by SeriousM on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:56AM (#19529710)
Oh, chromium may break? Then I use an alternative. This is true for any other program.
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Re:Devuan considers machine IDs by hedora on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:10AM (#19529788)
Or, devuan could arrange to always use 0xfoad or something appropriate if the file is missing.

Even better, it looks like there has been a file that always has the same value for a while; presumably they can just keep that in place.

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