I had one tell me that I needed a CVT flush. Which was news to me since my car was a 6spd manual. He was confused about the computer being wrong. I was confused about how they got the car up on the lift without using the 3rd pedal.

Edit: this was a Midas, not an AutoZone.

If road salt is getting into your tires, and then into the sealed battery in your TPMS… you got other bigger issues. Maybe make sure you have all your valve cap isn’t broken or missing?

I’m using ModOrganizer 2, and it seems to work fine, but you need a separate installation for every game.

I went from 10 to Mint back in January.

Pretty easy switchover. Very few issues. As a lifelong Windows user, installing apps, keeping everything updated and backed up could not be easier. Only issue I ran into during install was my WiFi device would not show up. Had to turn off fast boot and then power cycle the system and literally pull the plug to completely reset the adapter. Other than that, everything worked perfectly “out of the box”. No fucked up driver install process. No hour long updates. It literally worked perfectly within minutes. All the shit I went through with every single Windows install honestly feels like a cruel fucking joke right now when I type it out.

Brutal. I guess you can always swap the tires yourself and then stop by a tire shop and ask them to reprogram it. I feel for you.

Same. Switched my personal machine to Mint instead of “upgrading” to 11. I have to use 11 for my work device, and it’s not hyperbole to say that it gets worse every single week.

AI isn’t the future, it’s the IoT of this decade.

No, windows 11 has been out for like 5 years now.

You can transmit without a modem.

Edit for the hater…

I’ve got two radios behind me that can transmit without a modem. I grew up with aerial TV antennas that received signals that were transmitted without a modem. You don’t need a modem to transmit data. You need a modem to inject a digital signal onto an analog line or to get a digital signal out of an analog line. Modem literally stands for MODulateor DEModulator.

Camera has to have LOS to the car’s license plate, it’s got a limited field of view, it’s blocked or obscured by bad weather and other objects. You need to have some compute power with the camera to run the OCR to get the LP number from the image. People can easily (although not legally) switch their plates up.

Meanwhile, reading the radio signals can be done with rather small, innocuous looking hardware, it can capture many signals at once and even capture them through objects, without LOS to the TPMS, and in all kinds of weather.

Each method has it’s advantages and disadvantages, and it would be foolish to ignore one simply because it does not have the same capabilities as the other.

Wonder what kind of car you have, because my last 2 cars had a procedure to train/program a new TPMS, and some cars (according to Google) will automatically learn new sensors after about 20 minutes of driving.

Survivorship bias

The batteries last about 10 years.

Hear me out. Maybe, if you are a parent, its your duty to keep an eye on your child, and exert some control over the spaces and people they interact with?