Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
264ReplyUpgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
175ReplyHey, at least it told you. When i was fiddling to get disney plus working on my own setup it just refused to play until i changed the reported OS to windows. Nothing else was changed. I really have no idea why they would go out of their way to block specific operating systems.
156ReplyFuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
146ReplyHaving used Pearson products, this doesn't surprise me at all. Thier testing software hasn't been updated since the dawn of man.
110ReplyPearson is stupid, but for homework you can get around it by changing your user agent. For proctoring you have to actually boot into windows though
101ReplySoftware gore? Actually more likely software cringe.
EDIT: I think this one is more fit !assholedesign@lemmy.world
95ReplyYou can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser
91ReplyJust change your user agent. Fuckers have no business knowing.
74ReplyYou need to update to Linux 2.
70Replyupgrade to an inferior OS, ofc
66ReplyI really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.
55ReplyDowngrade, people. DOWNGRADE!
46ReplyI'm going to guess it's because they wanted to account for older windows operating systems and they made that everything that isn't like windows 7+ mac and stuff it pops this message and the linux string is probably taken by the useragent.
sorry for bad English
40ReplyThis brings me back to the days when we wished we could punch someone via the internet.
39ReplyTotally not paid my Microsoft to try and force people to use their bullshit
36ReplyMeans ascend to BSD
30ReplyDiscovered this with Pearson as well last year. Couldn't use my phone either because the mobile site is so terribly implemented
27Reply"key features" being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
24ReplyCan you pirate these courses?
17ReplyI have a feeling they're not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic...
16ReplyDon't tell me I won't be able to view my books on my pc
14Reply> changes user agent > site works just fine > mfw
9ReplyDoes it depend on a binary or is it really a website requiring an operating system?
7ReplyUhm acthually Linux is not an ,emph, operating shystem it is a kernel
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5ReplyHow dare they!
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1ReplyThey mean an OS that is actually widely supported.
-4ReplyLinux users when faced with the reality that all their shit is incompatible with reality.
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