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

Pearson: “Always Learning”

The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn’t.

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.

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.

They just whitelist few of the “supported”, operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.

“We ain’t supporting free shit!”

• Disney

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.

brings me back to the days

That was yesterday for me.

@spez @unionagainstdhmo

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

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

“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?

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.

Would you like to opt in to personalized advertising, including webcam access, location data, banking information, and your personal photos?

• [ ] yes
• [ ] yes

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.

Reality runs on Linux.

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.

Bad enough I had to use Chromium to get to that stage, just imagine what they’ll do when Web Environment Integrity comes out