It is and it isn’t. To use the onboard control to actuate the parking brake, yes, you have to use the paywalled software. But it’s a simple motor. Positive and negative. If you disconnect the connector at the parking brake and use fused jumper leads to a 12v battery, you can cause the actuator to go forward or backwards. Make sure the parking brake isn’t applied before doing anything, disconnect the cars battery, disconnect the p brake connector, jump the terminals once you figure out which polarity causes the retraction. Manually compress the caliper piston, replace the pads (and hopefully the rotors too). Pump the brake pedal as you would normally once everything is replaced, reconnect everything, and you’re good to go. in my experience this doesn’t work on ford but there’s a service procedure that doesn’t use a scanner to force the park brake into service mode. There’s always a way around dumb stuff like this

Come with me now by Kongos. The song drives me nuts because the lyrics are just awful. And starting them with a scream and then saying come with me now.

I don’t know your medical reasons, but caffeine in general has caused me to go to the ED at least 7 times with inconclusive results. Ekg, halter monitor, cardiac event monitor, follow up with a cardiologist. No answers. But whatever it was, avoiding caffeine has stopped those events from happening completely. I tried going the decaf route and did for a while, but with time, I learned I can’t trust the roulette of going anywhere for coffee and trusting the decaf is actually decaf. (Hence the 7 trips to the ed). I miss it and don’t at the same time. This made me want to risk coffee again.

Do you know that if you say “beer can” in a British accent, you’re also saying bacon in a Jamaican accent?