• corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Have you tried the lutris/steam options? I’d love to know there are options if people can’t avoid it.

      • TurkeyDurkey@piefed.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Oh, haha. This is for a school homework website called Pearson. I’ve always had it for my math classes.

        Since it’s a web application, you can simply change your user agent to get rid of this warning. But it’s annoying since I’d rather not have an extra extension installed to do so. Lol.

        • Hoimo@ani.social
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          22 days ago

          They added an OS check to a website? What’s next, checking if your desk is sturdy enough to carry the weight of their javascript?

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      Its kinda fucked, especially since McGH, the other big textbook company, offers theirs online with tuition as built in course materials. Like, on the one hand I understand them only offering access during the course but if they’re also charging you for access that’s horseshit. Idk, I just open my books in reader mode and then print them 😅

      • tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        I hate this move to only having ebooks. I have to have actual books to read through. I can’t stare at a screen and concentrate to comprehend the topic.

        • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          22 days ago

          I’ve got my stuff customized to be as close to real paper as I can manage regarding contrast and readability but sometimes I just can’t and have to look at my printed copies instead.

          Screens aren’t meant for reading, they’re meant for watching.

          Note to self: Find color E-Ink monitor for textbooks

      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        22 days ago

        Yep. They sell them as an online access model. The professors use them because they can have questions built in during your reading that will give you a grade. It will also have premade tests. It makes it simple for them, and they don’t give a shit about your privacy anyway. If you don’t buy the online book, you don’t get the grades and fail.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      It’s a real bummer how the “education” system is infested with crappy, exploitative grifters. See also textbooks, standardized tests, administrators, etc…

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    man i hate those online content that you MUST pay to do homework for the courses. They were over priced and back when i use them, they didnt even grade the homework correctly. E.g. the stupid Mastering series Mastering Physics, Mastering Chemistry and Cengage. I once spent 3 days on a problem because the system didnt like how I wrote the answers. So something like

    • coordinate (3x,space herey)

    instead of what they want:

    • coordinate (3x,y)
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Seems to be that learning sites in general are assholes. I once attended a language course, and while their “solution” was web based, it was focused on IE. I had serious issues attending the course under Firefox.

    I logged a lot of errors on their site, but their tech support could only manage accounts, the web site had been built by an external company ages ago, and they had no fingers into that.

    • mmmm@sopuli.xyz
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      22 days ago

      At my uni they go to the extreme where not only one gets around 20-30 mails DAILY but now to go check your email, which is gmail-based, it hops first into a Cloudflare human verification page that you can never pass in Falkon because it keeps looping after you check the human verification

    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      A key difference is that for learning sites, those who hold the purse strings are usually not those who actually use the website. They only need to convince the school administry or corporate procurement, but care little about the actual users.

      • Newsteinleo@midwest.socialEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Ha ha, that’s cute, you think there is are admins and procurement teams involved. The book publishers sell this shit directly to the professors, and usually the university can’t get involved because of the way the profs contracts are setup. Pearson builds their platform for making the profs job easier, not for any benefit to the students.

  • Johanno@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    Some websites do this.

    Change the user agent to windows and it works.

    Fuxk you piece of shit!

    Amazon does this too. After you bought a movie you can’t watch it in full hd on Linux. User agent doesn’t help.

    However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      21 days ago

      However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

      I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn’t particularly bother me, but it’s pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

      • Johanno@feddit.org
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        20 days ago

        In my case the highest resolution was 360p Because Linux is bad.

        Then I installed kodi, amazon vod plug in and it worked.

      • Johanno@feddit.org
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        22 days ago

        Drm was not the issue they just refused to run high quality on Linux.

        Linux Browsers Support drm too.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Same goes if you’re running Firefox.

      I once had Hotmail take forever to get past the loading screen, then actually navigating my mail was hellishly slow. Switched my user agent to Edge and “magically” it loaded instantly and everything was snappy…

      Had a few other sites do similar slowdowns but that and Youtube were the most unashamedly blatant.

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      What you are referring to as “Linux” is actually “Firefox/Linux” or, as I’ve recently taken to calling it, “Firefox+Linux”. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Firefox web browser made useful by the systemd components, Sway shell and other vital non-GNU software comprising a full web browsing experience as defined by the internet standards.