This is such a clever technical demo. Do you work for Posthog? LOL
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#12> What you are using it on
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> Your display scaling is set to 150%.
> A fractional device pixel ratio (1.5) only comes from Windows display scaling. macOS uses whole-number ratios. So you're on Windows, and you've bumped the UI size up from the default.
> Device pixel ratio = 1.5
im on linux though. the page even says earlier that im on a linux box.
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#13I looked into my ad profile section and saw that I was worth nothing... I'm not sure if I should be happy or not.
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#14Just tested this.
> Your User-Agent says Windows, but your installed fonts are Linux's. One of those is lying, and it isn't the fonts.
But also...
> Voice list = Microsoft David - English (United States) [snip]
> You use Microsoft Office.
Considering that this is tested on Windows 11, I think your Linux detection is wonky.
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#15On an iPhone like half of the information was wrong and conflicted prior information. And then stopped responding at the gathering ip, etc part.
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#16> You're inside a virtual machine.
It's wrong. I have Hyper-V and VirtualBox installed on my machine, maybe it has some effect?
> You use Microsoft Office
No, I don't. It was installed previously, but my license expired.
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#17> You're inside a virtual machine. It's wrong. I have Hyper-V and VirtualBox installed on my machine, maybe it has some effect? > You use Microsoft Office No, I don't. It was installed previously, but my license expired.
Yes, probably detected those, including teams haha
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#18> What you are using it on > > Your display scaling is set to 150%. > A fractional device pixel ratio (1.5) only comes from Windows display scaling. macOS uses whole-number ratios. So you're on Windows, and you've bumped the UI size up from the default. > Device pixel ratio = 1.5 im on linux though. the page even says earlier that im on a linux box.
Perks of making this deterministic haha will fix, thank you
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#19Just tested this. > Your User-Agent says Windows, but your installed fonts are Linux's. One of those is lying, and it isn't the fonts. But also... > Voice list = Microsoft David - English (United States) [snip] > You use Microsoft Office. Considering that this is tested on Windows 11, I think your Linux detection is wonky.
Tested on MacOS, but will try to patch this
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#20This is such a clever technical demo. Do you work for Posthog? LOL
thank you, I don't though hahaha