Along with taking the time to put a box of bullets in the fridge

That’s because they were threatening anyone who made fun of ck being shot.

I don’t know, I installed Mint last year and it’s been great.

I’ve felt much of the same things. It’s depressing. The Internet used to be cool. Tech used to be cool.

Fortunately, I’ve been doing more things in the real world. I’ve been fixing up an old car. It’s fun to drive it even though it’s slow and noisy and hilariously unsafe. I’ve been practicing archery with my kid. We are both getting decent. I’ve been writing more. I have been raising chickens, I now have 14 lovely girls who give me and my neighbors free eggs, and one bigass hateful rooster that keeps them safe. Lastly I’ve been teaching myself drone photography. I’ve been building a meshtastic network on my area.

So the Internet used to be cool but… I’ve decided that I’m going to just have to be cool instead.

I like it. “Which do you feel safer around, a cop or a crackhead?” Should upset the wife beaters.

All wrapped up in an easy-to-roll package

It does have some very nice solar panels on it, though.

Maybe YOU can’t remove the light.

You know that you can leave your phone at home, right?

EDIT: Also, another Defeatist reply.

Unless you’ve got some expensive whiz-bang Harley or BMW.

Hope they enjoy the oxide-filled soil and the lack of air.

One side of the tire. I did not have to remove the tires from the rims, and I didn’t have to balance them.

Have you met people? Do you think that battered old Chevy is driven by someone who cares about the TPMS light? They can ignore it as effectively as the check engine light.

It certainly doesn’t require removing the tire from the rim. I removed each wheel, broke the bead on the side that has the valve stem, pried the tire back away from the rim, remove the sensor (mine had a convenient little part you can push to release them) then air the tire back up and put the wheel back on the car. Didn’t even have to re-balance them.

If we want to take steps to protect ourselves from such tracking, we cannot afford to simply say “It’s ToO hArD!!!1!” with a multi-paragraph reply that took more time to type out than it took for me to remove one sensor. Can’t do it? Learn how. Defeatist replies belong on Reddit with all the other propaganda.

1.) Lol, no I won’t. That light can be removed. Or if it’s a Ford, you can access the vehicle with Forscan and turn off that functionality.

2.) How did we ever survive before 2008? Were there disabled cars with shredded tires every 20 feet? Was it an apocalypse of failed tires? People who don’t bother to check tire pressure won’t bother for yet another warning light on their dash.

I still remember redditors telling me with supreme confidence in 2015 that there would be self driving cars in five years, all truckers would be unemployed, and there would be no more traffic accidents.

I bet they don’t remember that though.

I recall an ice storm where half the state was dark, and sure enough so were the gas stations. It was a fun conversation with my supervisor.

A local city proudly mentioned on the news that they had a system that could track TPMS sensors. Pretty much all cars after 2008 uses TPMS sensors that each broadcast a unique identifier to the car. They aren’t hard to remove, and you can buy valve stems that fit your car (0.452 hole) at any auto parts store.

EDIT: The sheer amount of replies to this post days later that basically state “This is too hard to do, and it won’t work anyway, so you are stupid to try and shouldn’t do it”, all from people who clearly have no real idea how the TPMS system on a car works, have confirmed for me that I was correct in spending a half hour removing these devices.

If starfighters work like aircraft, an engine swap should be easy and normal.

Interesting. I use Mint. I’m not a Methodist.

My wife on the other hand is a Methodist lay speaker so…