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

• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uhh

  Your operating system, Linux, is not supported…

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to interject for a moment…

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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