Just had to deal with this last semester. Get a user agent switcher plugin and change your OS to windows, it should work for everything but proctored tests. You’ll likely have to go in person for those
Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
Submitted 2 months ago by okr765@lemmy.okr765.com to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bonus points if it’s a Linux course
epicstove@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
bro, my math and calc professor made us use this for our course despite the fact that our college really wants profs to stop using 3rd party sites like these and just use Brightspace.
It was like $100 CAD too. And it’s a fucking WEBSITE. Why is windows required? Do you need to ring 0 access so I can solve a derivative or something???
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its about data collection under the guise of “security”
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s also about making it the equivalent of pushing a button for the professor. Want a test that covers chapters X-y? Push three buttons and the students have a test over those chapters. No effort means they can jerk off in the direction of the grant that was just rejected because they used a bad word according to the government.
mp3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Change User-Agent Pearson: Please come in!
idriss@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There s a place where you can name and shame in a permanent searchable record: wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Main_Page
Be the change you want. We can it.
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just tried to do a certification exam with these pricks a few hours ago. It was my first time and I was not expecting the degree of privacy-violating photos they would need of my workspace. I work in my bedroom and my desk wasn’t clean enough. I think. I could barely understand what the guy was saying due to his thick accent. I think I got disconnected twice and just gave up. Fucking scam. All for a worthless piece of fucking paper to prove I can do the same job I’ve been doing for the past 13+ years.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Was that a ccna certification? I’ve heard they are quite strict on home exam conditions
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah. Just basic Azure stuff.
ryukendo@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Same pearson selling linux books
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I had that problem too. Thing is, nothing was broken and everything was fine. It just whined at me.
Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The Pearson website for assignments and exercises is definitely in by bottom-ten user experiences on the internet. And it’s even a paid tool! Fuck pearson
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Also, fuck the profs for choosing to use it, and make it a requirement for a course.
nimisnimi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Would you share your preferred alternative(s), if any? Thanks! 🖐️
Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Just a maths workbook I guess. This was just forced on me as a student so I’m not really aware if the alternatives.
SkidFace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, absolutely unnecessary too. I run into this too but there doesn’t seem to be any issue after dismissing it. The audacity to say “upgrade”, I hate Pearson so much and this is barely scratching the surface of their garbage :P
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just spoof your user agent string. You’ll eventually find one they like.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I couldn’t even use a virtual machine for my cert I had to use a Friends computer to even do anything and even that it was incredibly hard because I had to disable things to make it work. Fuck Pearson fuck them to hell completely.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
tendril@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yo fuck pearson fr
rekabis@programming.dev 2 months ago
Haiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat
ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 months ago
Change your user agent. There’s a bunch of extensions for that and they don’t compromise functionality.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I tried to download Microsoft Office on Linux Mint and I couldn’t even download the exe (to run through wine), I needed to go to Windows to download it … now I just need to make it work (I am in the 1% of people who actually need official Excel)
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This might be the right case to use a VM. Though, I just keep a spare SSD with Windows.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Would be great if the web app had the same features as the desktop app
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ugh, webapps are obnoxious as hell to me. Give me a thick client any day. Biggest irritation for most for me is the loss of keyboard control
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I prefer the desktop app, but things like powerquery won’t work to its fullest online
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LibreOffice is decent. Have you tried it yet? Anything major it can’t do for you?
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
It has been a bit since I tried it, but things like not having the buttons in the same place is annoying when teacher others. PowerQuery and Microsoft Scripts (what replaced VBA) are some things will probably be missing
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I wonder if MAS can work through Mint, even if just to download the installer?
Might try it later.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I tried a couple versions of Excel, but I was unable to get it to work sadly.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They mean downgrade
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Spin up a VM with windows 95 and try again.
rei@lemmy.world 1 month ago
if it’s in a browser fake ur user agent
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
… Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 months ago
used unlicensed windows vm back in college. user agent change is faster
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Time to download Virtualbox
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is Virtualbox still considered the go-to VM program? I haven’t been keeping up.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Very much no
Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.
rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I recommend using a kernel virtual machine.
KVM comes with the Linux kernel.
If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But Lemmy told me you can do everything on Linux and there’s never compatibility issues! 😱
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
a “compatibility issue” would be if the website didn’t load or display incorrectly, but as others pointed out, if you change your “user agent” (the code that tells websites what os and brower you use) to windows, it runs perfectly well
also, piss off, nobody’s saying there are no difficultiesMiDaBa@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
No one told you that and you’re mom is lying to you
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
*your
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There isn’t, in this case. Now stop being a tool.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Lutris -> chrome -> try again?
Deepus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
NO! YOU FUCKING UPGRADE!