"key features" being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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You can install a useragent switcher extension for the browser
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
Fuck Pearson. Absolute leeches on society.
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
Well said. Another day, praying that the textbook lobby dies a painful death
Hey, 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.
The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn't.
They just whitelist few of the "supported", operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.
Same with Amazon Videos.
AFTER I PAID it told me my os does not support hd quality Playback.
With kodi and a plugin I got it working to run at 1080p
Saved it with OBS out of spite.
Changing the user agent unfortunately didn't work.
Linux users when faced with the reality that all their shit is incompatible with reality.
Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.
EDIT: I think this one is more fit [email protected]
I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.
Just change your user agent. Fuckers have no business knowing.
Upgrade, ha?
OK, time to install TempleOS.
Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!
Having used Pearson products, this doesn't surprise me at all. Thier testing software hasn't been updated since the dawn of man.