I won bar bets at a conference when the Respondus Lockdown Browser was first released and touted... all you had to do was change the user agent string in whatever browser you wanted to use.

Our nursing faculty really wanted it, I kept saying no because it took me mere moments to bypass and it would've added a ton of complexity to our computer lab environments, etc. They said "well, our students aren't like you, they are nurses not geeks", then I pointed out that they had 140-150 18-21 year old females, and our IT track department was the next building over and full of 18-21 year old males and if they doubted the two groups would intermix they could pull out the pics of the graduating class from 5 years prior and I could point out my then-girlfriend-now-wife, and all it would take is one for the word to get out and any pretense of security would evaporate.

As a sysadmin who could in theory lookup the admin passwords for our colleges police department, I have to do annual policy and cyber security training on accessing the NCJIS data, both the typical cyber security stuff and what that data is allowed to be accessed for. Just did my training last week, and non-appropriate access is a crime - this is not "the officer arrested the guy because he didn't know the law" stuff, this is "the officer violated the law" stuff.

how many jobs are out there that require a degree in Gender Studies specifically (as opposed to "any 4 year degree" types)

Ruby on Rails.

Core product is also Free Software (AGPL) but most choose to use Instructure's hosting because of all of the extensions and 3rd party integrations they deal with automatically for you, not to mention the actual hosting needs (disk space, etc)

For the student side. But for staff side we pay out the you-know-what for it all

The college I work for requires transcripts for almost all of its positions, including career service type jobs like admin assistants, etc.

Medical fields have it (state licensing board exams), law has it (the bar exam), etc.

While I like 'em they are a bit too small for highway use, if only due to top speeds, etc. If I could buy a new version of my '88 Mazda B2200 pickup tho...

Not sure how it works in Canada, but here in Florida to get a handicap permit you take a doctors note to the DMV .... Granted once you have that if HR tries to stop you from parking in a legal handicap space, that is a different issue (and not legal in US, probably not Canada)

Dunno about this, but Cisco has offered a LPI cert prep course via NetAcademy for quite some time, and it uses Ubuntu as its distro (and has a pretty freaking awesome browser based VM that runs a system for doing labs, etc in)

Or they could be growin' dope ....

I run Teams, Outlook, all the office stuff I need via Chrome on Linux with no issue and have been for years.

My bank doesn't rate an app.. they have a website that works fine in a browser (desktop or mobile). I'm probably an edge-case for user behavior/desires, but I won't install an app on my iphone that does something I can do via browser.

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.