That only lists 18 states…

My own state requires it despite that list implying they don’t. Thus I really don’t think that chart is completely accurate. If you have ANY warning lights on your dash at inspection you will be failed here.

By “aren’t hard to remove” you actually mean requires dismounting the tire from the rim, remounting it, and then balacing it. This is far beyond the capabilities not to mention equipment of the typical layperson. Plus, your state is likely to conveniently fail your car on its next inspection for a nonfunctioning TPMS system, same as your check engine light.

If you’re going to go the distance anyway, get your tire shop to mount aftermarket Autel sensors in your rims. Using the readily available diagnostic tool, you can occasionally reprogram those (wirelessly!) with a set of random IDs and then also program your car to use them. You’ll be a lot tougher to track if your signature is different every week.

I’m not about to do this just yet, but I do have the tool for more mundane purposes and I only paid around $200 for it several years ago.

Mario Is Missing, obviously.

This is because their bosses will not allow them to buy new lathes and milling machines.

And you see, people wonder why I always have, like, six knives on me.

I have no idea. There was some dweeb on this very instance going around spamming a Krita related thread complaining about it.

I imagine it’s related to how some neckbards on the internet are apparently extremely salty that Krita currently has a “furry” as a mascot, created by Tyson Tan.

Just for grins, here’s a manual for the oldest discontinued GE electric cooktop I could find on short notice. Note the publication date of 2017. Your card is on page 16:

https://pdf.lowes.com/useandcareguides/084691809609_use.pdf

This one is so crusty they’re still referring to Cerama Bryte by name. One wonders exactly when that licensing deal fell through…

It’s on the tip of my tongue. Starts with an M?

The manufacturer literally recommends you use a regular razor blade in the manual. This is from a GE manual, since you brought them up:

And so does the manufacturer of the most popular ceramic glass material used. A plastic scraper won’t accomplish much, especially if the plastic it’s made out of is softer than whatever is stuck to your cooking surface.

The markings are etched into the glass, not painted.

You won’t scratch your stovetop with a razor blade. The ceramic glass top is significantly higher up on the Mohs scale than the steel razor blade.

When computers were just a teletype attached to a mainframe?

Only if you want to have the black and green version of Toy instead of the white and blue version, at this rate. Barring a handfull of exclusives everything gets released on PS5 and Xbox now and maybr also a watered down port on the Switch/2. The current Xbox and Playstation are so architecturally similar to each other that they may as well be the same machine with the only difference being which asshole is at the helm, and for either of them you may as well have a PC.

Random aside to rant about consumer OCR.

Recently for my work I had to do some OCR stuff to get some numbers out of a document that the vendor in their infinite wisdom refused to provide in an editable/selectable form. I.e. they just slapped a .jpeg onto a page and saved it as a .pdf. (This is a separate thing that infuriates me.)

Anyway, what I’m actually here to complain about is the baffling phenomenon that every single piece of OCR software I tried ranging from open source to trials of commercial programs, to the thingy that came with one of our all-in-one printer/scanners, and everything in between is that it’s somehow still exactly as crap as the lousy OCR programs we were all struggling with in the late '90s.

I have absolutely no idea how this particular facet of technology in particular has utterly and categorically failed to make any forward progress whatsoever in literal decades. I’ve personally worked on machine vision driven pick-and-place machines capable of accurately determining the orientation of densely printed cosmetics tubes, among other items, and placing them all face up in a box several times per second. Yet somehow the latest and greatest OCR transcription algorithms still can’t tell a 5 from a 6 or ye gods forbid an S, or an L from a J, or an M from a collection of back and forward slashes, all despite being handed crisp high contrast seriffed text that’s at least 60 pixels high.

Given the incredibly low bar for performance here given that apparently every single programmer involved just walked away circa about 2001, I can’t imagine that the current slop generation machines fare any better…

You don’t have to read the release notes. It literally puts it front and center in your face the first time you launch it after this update is applied.

It might be. If so, he gets away with no plate. I dunno about CO but where I am you “technically” don’t need a helmet to ride a 50cc but it’s still obviously not a great idea.

I’m more concerned about the cat. The rider can take his own risks, but the cat is not capable of articulating its opinions on the matter.

That appears to be a Honda Navi, which has me wondering why it has a low power scooter sticker (the blue thing) rather than a license plate. As far as I can tell Colorado should class that as a full-on motorcycle with all of the obligations required thereof, since the displacement limit is 50cc and the Navi is 109cc.

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What you described as impossible to find is how basically every security DVR system has worked for decades. I have two Lorex branded boxes at work and a Night Owl one at home, and neither of them require anyone’s “cloud.”

They’re remotely accessible via your browser or a smartphone app although, yes, you do need to know your public facing IP address and poke the appropriate hole in your firewall for it.

Every X seconds is pretty generous. My Subaru only seems to poll the sensors every few minutes, and only when the wheel speed is above 35 MPH or so, at least via what I’ve observed with my diagnostic tool. The sensors are battery powered and I suspect the low refresh rate is a deliberate gambit to conserve battery life.

You are correct on the ID point, though. They can contain up to 16 hexidecimal digits as far as I’ve seen, and while there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism for truly enforcing uniqueness the chances of an ID collision are so low that you may as well consider it impossible. Some aftermarket sensors can be wirelessly reprogrammed with an arbitrary ID, though, which may be of marginal utility for the truly paranoid. (My diagnostic tool can do this, too. The intended use case is cloning the ID from an OEM sensor for a car whose TPMS relearn procedure is more trouble than it’s worth.)

Regardless of your vehicle’s polling frequency, most sensors can be woken up any time by a specific radio pulse, which my diagnostic tool can also do, and the range is surprisingly long. Just my car’s own BMS where the receiver is (above the rear left wheel well) can pick up the sensors in my snow tire rims even when said rims are sitting in their storage rack inside my garage, about three car lengths away.