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How to make a USB Wi-Fi adapter from a broken Smart TV

This article could easily be titled How I fixed a 50 inch Vizio TV for $26 and made a Wi-Fi adapter with the leftover parts. Here is a photo of the finished adapter.

A few days ago, I was on my way home and noticed that someone threw out a 50 inch LCD TV. It was in mint condition---not a single scratch, and it didn't even have dust on it. So I took it home to see if I could fix it. It turns out that the TV was stuck on the Vizio logo. This was probably because of a corrupt eeprom chip. The chip was $15 and the motherboard was only $26! So I replaced the old motherboard and the TV worked perfectly.

The TV is from 2013, the built-in apps we're outdated, and I was going to use a modern FireStick anyway, so I had no use for the built-in Wi-Fi. I looked on the motherboard and noticed a little white sticker that had a MAC address and an FCC ID (

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How to Install TurboTax Deluxe 2021 in Windows 7

Run the TurboTax installer until the error dialog pops up. Click the close button since you can't go any further. Now press WinKey-R and type %TEMP% to go to the temporary folder. Copy the ckz_XXXX folder to the desktop. Select the Setup.exe file and press CTRL-C then CTRL-V to make a copy/backup.

Now use radare as follows:

Command	Description
r2 -A -w SetUp.exe	analyze and allow writing (thanks to @SureshotM6)
axt str.CurrentVersion	look for references to this string

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How to Install TurboTax Deluxe 2020 in Windows 7

Run the TurboTax installer until the error dialog pops up. Click the close button since you can't go any further. Now press WinKey-R and type %TEMP% to go to the temporary folder. Copy the ckz_xxxx folder to the desktop. Select the setup.exe file and press CTRL-C then CTRL-V to make a copy.

Now use radare as follows:

Command	Description
r2 -A -w "setup - copy.exe"	analyze and allow writing
axt str.Detected_OS_is_WIN_8_or_above	look for references to this string