Delta-Galactic Daydreamer

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

I also made a PDF version!!

For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains

kingpin: ...this changes nothing.

electro: [very clearly uncomfortable but not willing to interrogate what that says about himself] so is this, like, a permanent thing?

rhino: you are...AH!! [drops the bags of money he's holding and gives spider-woman a bone-crushing hug] MY FRIEND!!! YES!!! my cousin's wife, she is like you as well! beautiful woman. maybe you know her? you do not? is not how that works? i see. you two must meet. we will arrange dinner after i break out from raft again. uhp--no arguments. i have decided.

vulture: this is exactly what fox news warned me about...

green goblin: good for you, bug! though don't think i'll go easy on you because of this. after all, you and i both know i don't have a problem killing girls! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

sandman: [after five minutes of failed explanations] oh, like the thing rhino's cousin's wife has

white rabbit: girl!!! me too!!! no way!!! you know, this is perfect timing actually, beetle and i have been looking for a third, if you're interested...

lizard: [really not getting it] ssssso you have to inject yoursssself with girl DNA how often? seemssssss inefficient. you know, connorsssss only injected himself with lizard DNA the once. maybe you ssshould assssk him to make girl DNA for you.

doc ock: [known the whole time] so...you finally figured it out.

mysterio: [trying to fuck with her] so...you finally figured it out.

mr. negative: [gives a single, curt nod and doesn't say anything but makes sure to gender her correctly during their fight]

morbius: HISSSSSSSS!! spider-man!! vhat brings you to zhis dark corner of the city, at so late an--vhat? spider...woman now? [drops the accent] oh hey that's sick. listen if you need an endocrinologist i know a guy. he's over in brooklyn so it's a bit out of the way--oh you're going to diy? no that makes sense. hey, i really appreciate you telling me. no it's no problem at all. thanks! [starts doing the accent again] NOW BEGONE!!! FROM MY LAIR!!!!

electro again: [still really uncomfortable] i just don't think it's an unfair question to ask. remember that time you were like all mean and had the four extra arms and you said shit like "the die is cast?" how do i know this isn't another one of your phases?

carnage: [sprinting down the street on all fours holding the first syllable of a slur like piccolo charging his special beam cannon] fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFAGGOTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

ModRetro sells consoles made out of recycled drone parts.

This may give you a few negative reactions. If you're closer to the "What's the big deal about this?" side of things, I want to walk you through this.

Mod Retro is run by Palmer Luckey. You might know him first as the guy who sold oculus to Facebook/Meta. This is a red flag to me, but might not be to you, and I think we can reasonably just disagree with that, but I want you to stay with me here.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling out to what is essentially a surveillance propaganda factory, and while that alone just kind of sucks, and you might think "I'm broke. I'd take that deal", in 2017 he went on to open a defense contract business called Anduril (https://www.anduril.com/):

Anduril has contracts with the U.S. Military (https://tinyurl.com/4wh294vk) (and the Department of Homeland Security (https://tinyurl.com/5s2unffy). He makes weapons and surveillance equipment for ICE, DHS, U.S. Military, and U.S. Air force.

These contracts subsidize his production with American tax dollars and create weapons that have killed people in the states and abroad, and once the weapons and equipment are recovered and decommissioned Anduril sells the broken parts as loot boxes like a death trophy: (https://tinyurl.com/49kbc7yj)

as well as recycles them into console parts (https://tinyurl.com/ykfmm8xn) all while laundering their image with anime girls and old video game characters from the 90s.

Argonaut Games recently acquired Croc and Buck Bumble and have partnered with ModRetro to publish new copies of their N64 cartridges.

See also Throwback with Extreme G, Phoboslab with Xibalba64, and bitmap bureau with Xeno Crisis.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling to Facebook/Meta, invested that into the military to get richer profiting off of killing people here and abroad, recovers his equipment and turns around and sell it again to launder his image and his parts via old video game mascots and anime girls to then profit off of murder again. This is not hyperbole. This is simply what he does.