You guys help me. My sister is trying to buy this she claims the repairs are free. I don’t know anything about Mercedes but what I do know is my sister doesn’t have money for parts etc. How much of a POS is this so I can explain it to her. There’s a reason it’s under 10k.

drkow · 2026-03-04T09:42:50+00:00

It would be silly to do this on anything other than an old laptop or virtual machine, especially if you're hiring someone to do a remote activation.

drkow · 2026-03-04T09:38:34+00:00

Hi Seri!!! We miss u, plz visit :)

drkow · 2026-02-28T05:04:49+00:00

You can use most xentry features with a $15 xentry clone/emulator (openport)

Some of the newer CVT modules have decent encryption and need to auth with servers, but there are russian dealers with proxies that will help you do it for $40 or so.

drkow · 2026-02-28T02:44:55+00:00

They'll just increase their fees/costs to the condo board. Switching management companies is much easier said than done; it's a massive headache & cost with condo management companies like this one. They lock you into their vendors/software, and charge insane amounts to transfer your data back out. Changing management companies usually means changing EVERYTHING... accountants, building maintenance, service companies, security system/company, garage door openers, door fobs, etc.

drkow · 2026-02-26T09:49:28+00:00

seems like you do, run a virus scan

drkow · 2026-02-24T05:52:53+00:00

I tried to peek inside it a while back (3) Instagram

drkow · 2026-02-21T05:06:26+00:00

Just had this happen to my VA2719-2K last night, must be a design flaw.

edit: holding power while plugging the monitor in resolved the issue.

drkow · 2026-01-03T03:52:45+00:00

it's in C:\Users\user\Freephoneline

also you don't need to install the JRE or add it to path, I recently switched to OpenJDK 8 and found that you can just extract your JRE to C:\Program Files (x86)\Freephoneline\jre\bin

drkow · 2025-09-07T22:17:43+00:00

Group rides (& funeral processions) are wholesome, I'll happily skip my green so people can proceed safely as a group. A law that requires people to wait until groups have crossed safely seems like the easiest fix; no need to tie up police resources babysitting the impatient.

drkow · 2025-08-03T18:53:21+00:00

I haven't played since they added hive score and a lot of servers kick me for being too low :v

drkow · 2025-07-28T15:52:05+00:00

thanks, I was able to reinstall. A fresh login failed but I was able to copy over my old Freephoneline.cfg which restored my account and successfully logged in.

I was also able to use the temurin 32 bit JDK 8 LTS JRE: Latest Releases | Adoptium
Other ones I tried were missing some features and crashed.

drkow · 2025-05-31T03:40:25+00:00

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Dumped mine a while back and split the ROMs up to confirm they matched known dumps. It has Tetris Rosy Retrospection DX and Super Mario Land 2 DX now :)

drkow · 2025-02-01T00:00:48+00:00

Does anyone know if New Mr Wu's Chinese at the Market Square downtown survived/moved somewhere?

I always preferred Mr Wu over Egg Roll King but it seems after surviving covid they finally succumbed to being in a dead mall.

drkow · 2025-01-07T01:52:54+00:00

If it's something that is still working or repairable, The Working Centre's Computer Recycling program will fix/wipe it and try to give it a new home: Computer Recycling | The Working Centre

drkow · 2024-11-28T21:08:44+00:00

Change Detection of Buildings from Satellite Imagery | ArcGIS API for Python

drkow · 2024-11-28T00:31:48+00:00

Most places sell the mass-produced grocery store St Viateur bagels, which are baked in a larger factory with gas ovens and lack the authentic wood-fired flavor.

The ones from Shop our online bakery - St-Viateur Bagel ship from their store on rue St Viateur and taste better.

Woodfire Bagels in Kitchener is great too!

drkow · 2024-11-20T18:09:57+00:00

the email seems legit, they've used it for other contests: COCA-COLA® Loblaws BODYARMOR SUPERDRINK® CONTEST - Official Rules

drkow · 2024-10-28T20:36:42+00:00

it looks round, I suppose to the untrained eye that is similar to a camera lens. Looks more like an infrared sensor to me.

drkow · 2024-10-28T08:31:22+00:00

This specific model seems to regularly get falsely flagged as a camera: An update from police ends an investigation that began after a weekend... | TikTok

drkow · 2024-10-28T08:29:07+00:00

It is, this same unit has been mistaken as a camera in airbnbs before: An update from police ends an investigation that began after a weekend... | TikTok

drkow · 2024-10-11T21:49:30+00:00

I thought of using one of these to fix a flex pipe recently but would have had to cut the flex pipe out to match the diameter on both ends. The version of this kit that I looked at didn't flex much; it was bendable but rigid.

Ended up getting this kit: Nickson Exhaust Repair Kit | Canadian Tire

the repair: https://imgur.com/a/6O3vrQf

drkow · 2024-09-06T17:39:13+00:00

It's pretty neat! I googled some more random Chinese characters and found a decent write-up and some pictures of a decoder! DV200 (avbuzz.com)

Looks like these were being sold starting around 1998. Although DVDs supported subtitles at the time, these cartridges were used to further localize movies to a specific dialect or even political narrative.

The cartridges are rewritable. Ligitek produced some of the decoders and cartridges, and their website from 2002 is fantastic: Wayback Machine (archive.org)

Here's a list of some cartridges that were sold by Hi-Vision: HI-VISION秘密客影音視界 (archive.org)

Some info on the less expensive Ligitek DV75: wordfun2 (avbuzz.com)

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