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moe14:01:12

I came up with a couple decent tongue-twisters: "I've never met a master draughtsman nor a dafter marksman", and "twice baked rice cakes, thrice baked spice cakes"

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Benjamin16:01:04

any idea how to procure a unique "hardware id" for a licencing manager on linux? How does intellij or other programs do this?

solf16:01:38

I don't really know. I searched for "Linux hardware fingerprint" and found this: https://serverfault.com/a/733119

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Benjamin16:01:15

maybe the same as

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial
which is what chat gpt said. The issue is they require root permissions and I hoped I can avoid that (for user experience). Also this is something like "to be set by o.e.m." fo rme

solf16:01:08

The answer seem to say that you don't need root permissions for getting the hard drive uuid

solf16:01:20

But I don't have a Linux right now to test that

solf16:01:00

Well I guess I do, but not gonna try that on my android 😅

kpav17:01:35

Seems like it needs root on my system ¯\(ツ)

Benjamin17:01:41

we have some licencing lib and it does something, so "solved". They say "id files". I don't know and I hope I won't need to know.

souenzzo00:01:40

use an online account, as jetbrains does. • if you bind your software to my motherboard/HD, I will need to buy a new software once I swap my HD/motherboard? • i use multiboot with the same home dir. • how to handle VM's and snapshots? • how to handle rsync between linux machines?

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