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

Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They probably assume you are running something like Windows 7

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Uhh

    Your operating system, Linux, is not supported…

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right, but that could still be given dynamically by a library as “one of the unsupported ones”, getOSName(). They still might not have hard-coded “Linux is bad”.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d like to interject for a moment…

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      • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wow, I laughed far too much after reading this comment. Thank you kind stranger.

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  • AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They know which operating system you use based on the user agent, so they know it’s Linux.

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    • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which will be “If not Windows 11 or Mac os then report os string”. I don’t think they specifically took the time to research different OS’s and list them.

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re probably using a third party library to do user agent detection. I doubt anyone ever tested their code on Linux in the first place. They’re probably writing code like “if Windows version >= 10 or macOS version >= 10.14 or Android version > 10 or iOS version > 14” and Linux just happens to fall through because it has none of those versions.

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Captain, what should we do? She’s not on the list.

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    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The program has the information, but that doesn’t mean the people that wrote the code felt it was worth their time to make the “upgrade” text inclusive to Linux, if they even considered the possibility of Linux.

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    • Littux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If they were using user agents for identification, Android browsers on “Desktop mode” would be wrongly identified as “Linux”. Even Discord has this issue on their download page. “Premium” Android devices with large screens use Desktop mode by default

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  we have wildly different definitions for “mildly”!

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