Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Upgrayedd. With two “d”'s.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A shareholder’s love is very different from that of a FOSS.

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  • StarMerchant938@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “You are an unfit mother, your children have been placed in the custody of ’ CARLS JR.'”

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Carls Jr; Fuck you! I’m eating.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week’s. Shoot…

  Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, “Fuck it! Fine! I’ll accept the new feature” then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won’t let you login, but finally you do and THEN you’ve got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it’s notifying you of updates constantly but you won’t run them because noticed it’s contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows somehow undid the group policy fucking around you had to do has somehow been undone and they say Linux is hard.while.Windows thinks I’m the fucking idiot and- RAAARRRGH!!!

  snaps back

  Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I’ll be better in a year.

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  • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I felt this revulsion in my bones. :shudder:

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haven’t you heard? Pearson’s requires at least Linux 2.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let me just check something on my terminal.

    $ uname -sr
    Linux 6.14.4-arch1-1
    

    I’m suspicious.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That came out in 1996.

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This means they forgot platforms other than Windows exists. It’s likely they’re checking for currently supported systems and anything older is insecure, so blocked for your security.

  Likely something like this pseudocode

  function isPlatformVersionSupported(useragent) {
      // Windows XP is NT 5.1
      // Windows Vista is NT 6.0
      // Windows 7 is NT 6.1
      // Windows 8 is NT 6.2
      // Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3
      // Windows 10 and 11 is NT 10.0
      if (useragent.name == "Windows" && useragent.version.match(/Windows NT (6\.3|10)/)) {
          return true
      }
  
      // TODO: insert supported macos versions here
  
      return false
  }
  

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always hate this when it’s used to target Firefox.

  “upgrade to chrome”

  Like… What the fuck?

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just use a user agent switcher.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The actual audacity

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