Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death
Have to go their testing centers for certifications. Place feels so damn sterile I wanna die, and the buzz of the fluorescent tubes is just…
Place feels like the Backrooms but with less yellow
Pearson 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
I don’t think you even need to do that, just click remind me later
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Time to upgrade to another product.
Sadly, we get fuckin’ stuckbwith certain publishers either through sweetheart deals with admin (so we professors don’t get a choice) or through lack of available courseware/software/support elsewhere.
At my institution, we’re lucky, because we get to pick basically whatever we want. We’re pushing hard for free open-access stuff. Fuck contemporary publishers.
You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser
It’s built in to every Chromium based browser in Developer Tools
Edit: changed “Toold” to “Tools”
Firefox lets you do it in settings as well
https://winaero.com/change-user-agent-firefox/amp/
Or it used to, I cannot test at the moment
Just tested it, it works.
Ah alright. I didn’t know that
You need to update to Linux 2.
Linux Professional™
And here I was running Linux Pleb all along.
Bruh, we’re on linux 6 now!
*Ubuntu Pro
I could understand things not working if you’re still on kernel version 1 though :D
Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.
EDIT: I think this one is more fit !assholedesign@lemmy.world
Just change your user agent. Fuckers have no business knowing.
Won’t work if you’re using their test software. That shit is more invasive than anticheat
Meaning it doesn’t run in wine?
Yep. This is by design - it’s trying to detect container software that stops it from seeing what else is running.
But wine is no container software.
Technically true, but programs loaded via WINE can be made to act somewhat containerised, and can provide incomplete information as to what else is running. Maybe containerisation is the wrong word though, maybe ‘sandbox’ instead?
Good luck detecting Linux native programs from WINE-loaded Windows executables.
Yes, and at least there’s no more ms activex bullshit to fail either (looks like S. Korea finally got rid of it 3 years ago too).
Totally not paid my Microsoft to try and force people to use their bullshit
Try to*
Why do you think that?
Probably more that they want to support any major OSes, and Linux just doesn’t have the market share they deem profitable enough.
I think it’s a web app, and it shouldn’t matter what fucking OS I use.
School apps and testing software has tons of DRM. And for good reason. That’s the problem.
And for good reason
There is never a good reason for DRM.
Of course there is. In this particular case it prevents cheating.
prevents cheating.
lol
dude as a student in school I don’t think there is anything that supposed drm is gonna stop
@histic @ShittyRedditWasBetter
At the university I am going to they require a book for every course, and a plan on how they’re going to use it.
What’s great is that I’ve all my professors right back. All of my professors include a book that is fairly old and include some verbage in the syllabus about how they “reserve the right to assign reading assignments” i.e. book quizzes, but they actually never have assigned them previously and don’t even have material made up.
I’m guessing the reason for this policy is because the university has an opt-out (you have to re-opt out every semester, and you have to check some professors lock their own material) $150 paywall to get online access to your books. The only way I can see this as worth it is if your taking like 6 classes and all of them use books written in the last 5 years or so…
writes answers on hand using UV ink
@ShittyRedditWasBetter @Malfeasant
How does it prevent cheating exactly? I can just fire up a windows VM and it won’t know that I am looking stuff up even when proctoring I’d assume.
I’ve been fortunate to not have to deal with Pearson, so I am not talking from experience.
What good reason would an educational resource get to have tons of DRM?
Prevent cheating.
I doubt you know what DRM is…
How does DRM(Digital Rights Management) that has as function the blocking of copying or “blocking non legitimate access” of copyrighted media prevent cheating?
Because that is far different as things like access to tests answers, because that is not the same than copyright.
Which is bull because their stuff runs in a browser.
Really now?
It’s a web page. Webpages have shit to do with the operation system. Webpages however have been a classic Microsoft truck to force people on their shit software (hello ie6 hell!) so you can pretty much bet money on it that this is done at the request of a manager who got a good deal with Microsoft.
Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!
Means ascend to BSD
I thought it meant soar to Solaris
I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.
I’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
English is all good, and honestly that’s a good point. I tend to forget that the browser is what forwards the OS to the website, not the OS itself
“key features” being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
Can you pirate these courses?
My understanding is that with Pearson stuff the professors often setup the HW through it, so unfortunately this is often not possible.
HW?
homework, presumably
I have a feeling they’re not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic…
