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Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
Submitted 3 days ago by okr765@lemmy.okr765.com to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 days ago
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Arch? That’s way too technical for the average user. Click here to upgrade to Debian.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Ubuntu.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 day 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.
ryukendo@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Same pearson selling linux books
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That kind of fuckery drove me off a company-sponsored training course.
epicstove@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 days ago
Its about data collection under the guise of “security”
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 days 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.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bonus points if it’s a Linux course
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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 days 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 day ago
Also, fuck the profs for choosing to use it, and make it a requirement for a course.
nimisnimi@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Would you share your preferred alternative(s), if any? Thanks! 🖐️
Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day 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.
rei@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if it’s in a browser fake ur user agent
mp3@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Change User-Agent Pearson: Please come in!
tendril@lemmy.world 2 days ago
yo fuck pearson fr
ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 days ago
Change your user agent. There’s a bunch of extensions for that and they don’t compromise functionality.
SkidFace@lemmy.world 3 days 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
rekabis@programming.dev 2 days ago
Haiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 days 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 days ago
This might be the right case to use a VM. Though, I just keep a spare SSD with Windows.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Would be great if the web app had the same features as the desktop app
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 days 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 days ago
I prefer the desktop app, but things like powerquery won’t work to its fullest online
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
LibreOffice is decent. Have you tried it yet? Anything major it can’t do for you?
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 days 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 days ago
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just spoof your user agent string. You’ll eventually find one they like.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days 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.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They mean downgrade
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 days ago
used unlicensed windows vm back in college. user agent change is faster
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Spin up a VM with windows 95 and try again.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
… Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Time to download Virtualbox
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Why?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is Virtualbox still considered the go-to VM program? I haven’t been keeping up.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Very much no
Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.
rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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 3 days ago
Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But Lemmy told me you can do everything on Linux and there’s never compatibility issues! 😱
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 days 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 days ago
No one told you that and you’re mom is lying to you
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
*your
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
There isn’t, in this case. Now stop being a tool.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Lutris -> chrome -> try again?
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 days 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 day ago
Was that a ccna certification? I’ve heard they are quite strict on home exam conditions
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah. Just basic Azure stuff.