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Just out of curiosity:
If you have a (bonded) Ethernet connection, why let FFS use your WiFi connection to register its installation?


Well it's not up to me - i didn't use that connection at all. I guess FFS just calculates a hash using, among other things, MAC addresses of all the network ...

Zenju has reset my activation count. And apparently redacted a unique licence id i exposed in the screenshot earlier. Thanks Zenju!
On my side i have found that NetworkManager on Debian 13 rotates a MAC adress for the Wi-Fi card, regardless of the fact it's not used. I have disabled that by ...

Ok, I'we found that even though i dont use WiFi, the board has it and network manager randomizes WiFi mac after each sleep or reset.
I can turn that off in a .conf file but i would kindly ask some of the staff to reset my activation count because i'm still locked out.

For additional context, i'm using a bonded ethernet connection on debian machine so that might be part of the issue. It might be flipping the MAC adress now and then depending on the first network device to come online, but i do not now if that's relevant to the FFS activation at all?

I'm attaching additional screenshots which show the lockout and the fact that 9 of my activations are the same Linux machine:

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I'm running Debian 13 on the machine in question, and my workflow is totally dependent on FFS so i would ...

Hi there,

I'm using FFS on my Linux desktop and windows laptop. Since recently everytime i restart a sistem i FFS registers this as a new activation. I started getting warnings and then i was locked out of my Donation edition. If i attempt to remove the erroneous activations it only allows me to do ...