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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] FEIN@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

For the record, my friend (he uses arch btw) has used Pearson before and I dont believe it actually affected him, so to me the message means "it could work for you but we won't support Linux if something screws up on your end because we're lazy developers"

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Your operating system Ubuntu, is not supported.

Click here to upgrade to Arch, btw.

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[–] Deepus@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

NO! YOU FUCKING UPGRADE!

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week 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

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Change User-Agent
Pearson: Please come in!

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Bonus points if it's a Linux course

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

upgrade to a supported operating system

What are the options? Let me guess, Micro$oft Windows or Windows

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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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????

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[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] ryukendo 14 points 1 week ago

Same pearson selling linux books

[–] SkidFace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I had that problem too. Thing is, nothing was broken and everything was fine. It just whined at me.

[–] idriss@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There s a place where you can name and shame in a permanent searchable record: https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Main_Page

Be the change you want.

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Just spoof your user agent string. You'll eventually find one they like.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Haiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat

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.

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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 8 points 1 week ago

This might be the right case to use a VM. Though, I just keep a spare SSD with Windows.

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Change your user agent. There's a bunch of extensions for that and they don't compromise functionality.

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