I had a course where the teacher basically said you would have a hard time passing if you did not have a windows laptop because it was the only OS that worked well with their program.
The program was Excel workbooks
College is a joke
Most tech street smart non-techie.
I ran into this before too, I believe I got around it with a User Agent changer… that or a windows 10 VM with 2 cores and 2GB of RAM that ran only Firefox… or you may be able to just press remind me later and suffer little/no consequences
I think it’s just because people that use Linux are generally more technologically inclined and are more likely to try and get around their crappy DRM
Yeah, I can still access it just fine, but the word “Upgrade” didn’t make me very happy…
Very true, I too would consider Microsoft’s spyware a massive downgrade
“Upgrade?” “UPGRADE?!” Oh no they didn’t.
Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it’s browser-based, the first thing I’d try is a user-agent switcher.
Though, actually, does that “remind me later” option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn’t hurt to try a click.
They probably check to make sure you’re running a current version of Windows. The code assumes if you’re not on Windows 11, then you need to upgrade.
Yeah they’re not blocking access or anything, I was just infuriated by the message
I’m guessing it’s the default message for any non-whitelisted os and it was written assuming you’ll be on an old version of windows and not linux
they’re not blocking access
Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? “Your operating system is not supported”, except that it totally fucking is.
I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.
Yeah, and browsers are running the same engines across platforms, so there are very few differences between using Firefox on Linux and using Firefox on Windows. My best guess is what @Chronographs@lemmy.zip said, that it’s just allowlisting new Windows user agents and was intended to target people running ancient versions of Windows.
“upgrade”
Upgrayedd. With two “d”'s. For a double-dose of telemetry.
A shareholder’s love is very different from that of a FOSS.
“You are an unfit mother, your children have been placed in the custody of Carls Jr.”
Carls Jr; Fuck you! I’m eating.
I always hate this when it’s used to target Firefox.
“upgrade to chrome”
Like… What the fuck?
Just use a user agent switcher.
This means they forgot platforms other than Windows exists. It’s likely they’re checking for currently supported systems and anything older is insecure, so blocked for your security.
Likely something like this pseudocode
function isPlatformVersionSupported(useragent) { // Windows XP is NT 5.1 // Windows Vista is NT 6.0 // Windows 7 is NT 6.1 // Windows 8 is NT 6.2 // Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3 // Windows 10 and 11 is NT 10.0 if (useragent.name == "Windows" && useragent.version.match(/Windows NT (6\.3|10)/)) { return true } // TODO: insert supported macos versions here return false }Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week. Shoot…
Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, “Fuck it! Fine! I’ll accept the new feature” then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won’t let you login, but finally you do and THEN you’ve got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it’s notifying you of updates constantly but you won’t run them because you noticed it contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows has somehow undone the group policy fucking around you had to and they say Linux is hard while Windows thinks I’m the fucking idiot and I CANT EVEN SHRINK THE FUCKING PARTITION BECAUSE OF THE GOD.DAMNED PAGE FILE IS JIZZED ALL OVER THE FUCKING DRIVE AND- RAAARRRGH!!!
snaps back
Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I’ll be better in a year.
I felt this revulsion in my bones. :shudder:
Haven’t you heard? Pearson’s requires at least Linux 2.
Let me just check something on my terminal.
$ uname -sr Linux 6.14.4-arch1-1I’m suspicious.
That came out in 1996.
“Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”
The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).
It’s hilarious how bad it is
I won’t ramble but I’m a cybersecurity professional with a lot of certs and… I’ve played with it.
Hey Pearson, I have completely defeated your anticheat measures. Ironically, have used my expertise to pass cybersecurity exams. Fight me.
Hey OP, use a free windows VM. Guess how many monitors your VM has? Guess how many your host can have? Yeah.
This was 2019, so they may have gotten past that but I tells ya… For folks testing cybersec pros, they sure don’t have airtight opsec.
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They’re in the business of selling the illusion of security to university administrators.
Most money moves because a retarded manager/executive has a retarded idea, I’m sure of it.
Also kickbacks, don’t forget the kickbacks
You should get bonus points in cybersecurity for bypassing that crap
I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don’t seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it’s a website, so it’s gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you’re using a common browser.
They should definitely phrase the message more like “Your OS isn’t supported, so don’t expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page” than “You need to get a different OS” though.
ask them for the .onion to get to their site 👍
Just spoof your user agent string. You’ll eventually find one they like.
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
… Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?
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.
Spin up a VM with windows 95 and try again.
Change User-Agent
Pearson: Please come in!The most infuriating part is that they call it an “upgrade”
Yeah I go from an OS that I know how to use up and down to an ad riddled bloated piece of garbage. Thanks!
Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need
what could they possibly be doing that requires an os?
Widewine? Maybe they have some content that requires L1, which still doesn’t work on Linux because of totally legitimate technical reasons that are absolutely not at all utter horseshit. Or they might be using some browser APIs that are not properly supported on Linux. There are a few of those.
They want to find excuses not to provide any customer service
