The most attention I ever got from a pic on an online dating profile was when my main pic was me on a unicycle.

Hey look, another one!

There is no reason to make it easier for them, is it?

What part of my “driving experience” was degraded? You realize tire pressure gauges exist, right?

I won’t discuss other options for the issues you mentioned, because you’re repeating the same words as some pretty obvious bots.

I didn’t even have to balance the tire. I only broke the bead on one side, and pushed the tire sidewall back enough to get my hand in there and pull the sensors out. They are very lightweight and didn’t throw the balance off that I could notice.

I do have a persistent TPMS warning light, but some work with a screwdriver had the bulb out. My truck was different, it has a warning light and a warning message on the cluster LCD screen, but with Forscan I was able to just disable the TPMS function.

Yup! 315 mhz, and each one broadcasts a unique identifier, making it easy to see which four sensors are yours.

Are prions a problem in this situation?

Oh no, I wasn’t clear - they said removing the TPM sensors themselves required specialized equipment. Which I suppose is technically true, but it was the work of an hour and a harbor freight manual tire changer. So it “requires” equipment any stoned hillbilly either owns themselves or is owned by someone they know. Or they could just have a tire shop do it.

The car I drive is modern-ish, from the last decade, but it is a really, really basic car. It doesn’t even shift it’s own gears. The instrument cluster and center console don’t even have screens in them. There is certainly not any 5G antenna, as the car predates the commercial 5G rollout.

Late last year a city I have to drive through was bragging they had deployed systems to ID cars based on their TPMS sensors. I made a comment on lemmy some time later mentioning this, and also talked about how I had removed those sensors from my vehicle.

I was immediately inundated with comments that more or less said “That’s too hard to do and requires special tools, also your car will certainly kill you once you take them out due to three tires having 36 psi and one tire having 35 psi, and it won’t work anyway because your car’s 5g connection and your phone so it’s a stupid idea and you should definitely not do it because you’d be a moron for doing so.”

The fact that I was hit by so many comments that basically said the same thing so quickly, tells me I was correct for removing them. I wonder where those “people” are now?