What do you mean upgrade?

Upgrade your user agent with this one weird trick!

Upgrade, ha?

OK, time to install TempleOS.

Upgrading my masochism that led me to using linux in the first place
- Use lfs as your main. Takes like 6-8 hours to set up the base os.

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.

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.
- You did? I also tried that, but the best resolution I got was 540p... As far as my research went that was because they require a higher widevine level not available on linux for HD
- That's more to do with the version of WideVine DRM your browser has - the DRM in Firefox is neutered so the chrome will always give the best experience. Why? Because the WideVine DRM is owned by Google.
"We ain't supporting free shit!"
Disney
- Do this:
  Disney
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.
I have regularly watched Disney plus and Max on my Linux systems. But not all Linux systems are equal. Watching it on something like Debian would be pretty hard. Debian generally doesn't support much in the way of DRM as it goes against most of their philosophy. You can get a browser installed with support for the widevine DRM they require. But it's a lot of work on a system like that. However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple.
- However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple
  Yeah I was about to ask, since my buddy and I watch Star wars sometimes on his arch Linux machine I thought Disney+ just had native linux support
This must be a while back, because it works fine here.
A few months ago they had a bug that prevented playback on Linux. But that was resolved after a week or so.

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.

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

Software gore? Actually more likely software cringe.

EDIT: I think this one is more fit !assholedesign@lemmy.world

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
- 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

upgrade to an inferior OS, ofc

Bad enough I had to use Chromium to get to that stage, just imagine what they'll do when Web Environment Integrity comes out
- ah yes - WEI, the DRM for the web - because we all know how effective DRM was to avoiding piracy.
  these policymakers and lobbyists are a bunch of clowns

I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.

Downgrade, people. DOWNGRADE!

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

This brings me back to the days when we wished we could punch someone via the internet.

brings me back to the days
That was yesterday for me.
- We about doxxing now
  Fite me irl or gtfo

Discovered this with Pearson as well last year. Couldn't use my phone either because the mobile site is so terribly implemented

"key features" being their spyware bot that they only got working in Windows and Mac.

Can you pirate these courses?

@spez @unionagainstdhmo
My understanding is that with Pearson stuff the professors often setup the HW through it, so unfortunately this is often not possible.
- HW?

I have a feeling they're not just FreeBSD enthusiasts being pedantic...

Don't tell me I won't be able to view my books on my pc

    
> changes user agent 
> site works just fine
> mfw

If I had a dollar for every time someone has mentioned that under this post...
Yes I can do that, in fact it doesn't even stop me using it and it works fine. But you're missing the point. The point is they claim that their website is OS-dependent when they're really just lazy-asses
- Are they even lazy though? As far as I know that check and block has to be implemented. If they were lazy it would just work.

Linux users when faced with the reality that all their shit is incompatible with reality.

It's not actually incompatible it seems to work fine, and it should work fine on every browser -it's not that difficult, that's why we have standards. What my post highlights is that they had the nerve to tell me to upgrade.
Hate Linux and it's users all you want, but know this your objection is entirely irrational. A smart person keeps an open mind and assesses all of their options based on their own criteria and makes a rational decision. An idiot makes a decision and then finds reasons to support it.
"Fuck, my life sucks, what can I do to cheer myself up?"
"I know, I'll go into a forum full of Linux users and tell them their OS sucks. I feel productive now. Next I'll find some Pokemon and Startrek fans and troll them too."
Is that about it? Did I get it right?
- Lord knows Linux users never wander into windows threads and be smug.
Reality runs on Linux.
Would you like to opt in to personalized advertising, including webcam access, location data, banking information, and your personal photos?
yes
yes
- Don't forget religion and sexual orientation (I'm looking at you Nisan)
  -I'm referencing Luis rossmans video are cars btw
I mean it's what serves the back end of all these services in the first place.
If Linux suddenly ceased to exist the internet and most devices we use and even rely on including android phones would become totally useless.
I don't think you can say that something so key to our technological infrastructure is incompatible with reality.
There is simply those of us who for whatever reason (commonly privacy and a level of control no other operating system outside maybe the BSDs offers) choose to use it for our personal desktop computing needs as well.
shit doesn't work on linux Because the developers couldn't bother to make a linux version. Because "not enough people use it". And people don't use linux mainly because shit doesn't work on it.

Uhm acthually Linux is not an ,emph, operating shystem it is a kernel

Pearson: "Always Learning"

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

Does it depend on a binary or is it really a website requiring an operating system?

It doesn't block you from using it but it claims that it will only function properly on Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, iOS or Android. Which is complete bullshit. It actually didn't work properly but I doubt that would change if I tried it in another platform, the website was so clunky anyway
- I got it working now, had to change to flatpak Firefox, just the old version of firefox shipped with Debian slowing me down
- Can't you just block the popup with an element blocker?
And what happens if you just put Windows into the useragent?

They mean an OS that is actually widely supported.

Like the one this service is running on

How dare they!