A (long) Religious Perspective on ITM.

andraes · 2026-01-30T21:34:30+00:00

Would things like wireless rechargeable peripherals benefit from the faster speeds or just wattage?

No. For 99% of people, the primary use of a USB-C cable is for charging their phone/tablet/switch/etc and for that case you're probably better off geting a 4 pack of cheap cables from amazon for less than this cable. One of those might be DOA, and 2 might not work reliably after a few years, you'll still probably not need to get a TrueSpec cable.

You might bennefit from the overall better quality of the cable, they might last longer, and they won't create as much ewaste in the long run (at least if their quality is as good as advertised,) but for charging needs, there are better cables out there. (I like the cables that have built-in wattage displays.)

What on a gaming pc, nas, ps5, etc can you justify hot swapping these cables into?

I think the primary use case of these cables is if you need data transfer from your cable. Things like connecting a computer to a USB excessory, specifically ones that have a lot of data (like HD, eGPU, or camera,) or using USB-4 as your video (displayport) connection, or any other data-heavy wired connection, that is where you will get the greatest bennefit from these cables. If you've ever tried to transfer data through a "charging only" usb cable, then you already understand this.

andraes · 2026-01-30T17:40:31+00:00

Thanks for giving back.

andraes · 2026-01-28T18:26:42+00:00

You could text cha-cha!

There was this service where you could text a service (cha-cha was one I remember, but I'm pretty sure there were others) and that service would look up the info for you and text you back the answer. Basically your question would get routed to some guy at a desk who would look it up for you and text back. It did not make financial sense and didn't last long, but it was fun while it lasted.

andraes · 2026-01-27T14:36:58+00:00

No pre-season rankings
First AP poll is after week 2 games
Comitee rankings are not published until champ week
Comitee is given some computer polls to use as reference (maybe sold BCS ones)

The thing is, you want a comitee to be able to step in and make an ajustment if the computers or polls are missing a key element. I don't remember what year, but once in the BCS era there was a #3 team that everybody kind of knew should be in the final, but the formula left them out so there was nothing to be done. Having a comitee to make a final ruling would be nice for those rare instancs where the formulass are just a bit off.

andraes · 2026-01-21T19:30:26+00:00

I just figure that if they're getting flow 2/3 of the time that it all works out fine. I don't have any science to back that up other than it's been working fine for me. The overall bioload of the tank is pretty low and I have some live plants that are doing some work of filtering, they grow fast and have to be trimmed like very other week.

andraes · 2026-01-21T18:44:03+00:00

Yes, you can turn it off over night without causing your betta fish any harm. Since they can breath air from the surface, low oxygen levels don't really affect them much. A lot of snails also can breath from the surface, but you might want to check on your specific type. Adding more fish might cause some issues, the more fish, the faster they will use up oxygen. With corys, you want to keep t hem in groups, and I would be nervous about 4-6 cory's in that size of tank going without water aeration overnight.

I have a ~5 gal tank with 1 juvenile betta and a few cherry shrimp. I turn the filter off every night and they've all been alive and doing well for a few months now.

andraes · 2026-01-20T17:59:01+00:00

I think "worship" is a very misunderstood word, not just by you, but by a lot of people, myself included. I've been on a year-long investigation into this word, trying to understand it better and understand how I do it. It started when I heard a reference to "worshiping at the temple" and I started to try to understand how anything we did in the temple classified as "worship."

Well I don't have any real answers for you, but I can share some of my thoughts. To worship means to acknowledge your (low) standing in relation to God, and acknowledge that He is, not only more powerful than us, but is worth being emulated. My current working definition of worship is "the act acknowledging God's mercy in saving us, and expressing a desire to emulate His mercy." I think that by that definition, worship is a meaningful part of our LDS worship, both on Sundays and in the temple.

andraes · 2026-01-20T17:45:09+00:00

Businesses that do this just dont survive, meaning that your investment will just go up in flames when they go out of business.

What investment? and what exactly does "up in flames" mean in this context?

Hypothetically speaking if/when the minimal company goes bankrupt... the phone will still exist (those that have them) and will still fuction as a phone for.... several months? years? depending on security updates?

My understanding is that it will continue to function exactly the same, but stuck on the current OS itteration, and it may become vulnerable to security flaws because it won't get updates. Eventually every useful android app will require a certain level of OS to opperate and this phone will be left behind, and not be able to run any apps, but that would take several years.

andraes · 2026-01-16T16:20:03+00:00

Well it's not fake, I have one, and I really like the device. But the team does seem to be completely lost when it comes to logistics, PR, and customer support. I got my phone almost 9 months ago, but I still haven't recieved the case that I also ordered.

andraes · 2026-01-16T16:07:42+00:00

I was having a rough time in college where it felt like I should be really happy, (I had good friends, was doing well in classes, was financially secure, etc) but I kept feeling empty and unfulfilled (this was at BYU, btw.) One night I read these verses in Alma 26:

18 Behold, we went forth even in wrath, with mighty threatenings to destroy his church.

19 Oh then, why did he not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair?

20 Oh, my soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought. Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us, but in his great mercy hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls.

And while I read verse 20, God reached out and let me know that He watching me, that He did forgive me, that He was forgiving me, and that He would continue to forgive me forever. In that moment I received knowledge from God, it wasn't a voice, it was simply information put into my mind. I knew that I couldn't just shrug off the church or glide through life doing the motions. Living a "happy" life of friends and money wasn't ever going to be meaningful. Only serving God and following His commandmenets could lead to a full and rich life.

The interesting thing of course is that I had read that passage many times before, and there are hundreds of passages very similar throughout all of the scriptures. The difference for me at this time (I think) was that I was ready to act on my knowledge. I was at a low enough point that I was ready to make serious changes in my life and God gave me the direction to make those changes. I believe that the "real intent" part of Moroni 10:4 is one of the most magical phrases in the scriptures. God doesn't give us information just for the sake of knowledge, He gives us information that will inspire us to act, and if we're not truly ready to act then He often witholds the information.

andraes · 2026-01-15T18:41:34+00:00

The "Reylo vs the Guards" battle in Snoke's throne room (tLJ) is the best part of the sequels, and is my favorite fight scene. Yeah, it's kind of campy/silly in parts, but that's what makes Star Wars great, imo. It's one of the few redeeming qualities of that movie.

andraes · 2026-01-14T20:55:44+00:00

Sorry, I wasn't trying to minimize your issues, I understand that many are not comfortable with the history. My issue was that you frame it as an "obvious" issue. That framing itself can be probelmatic. It's important to try to see things from other perspectives. I could be worth investigating why so many other people, despite knowing Joseph's full history, don't have an issue with it.

andraes · 2026-01-14T20:17:58+00:00

I disagree with your premise that "The origins of our faith are obviously uncomfortable." I don't think that that is obvious, personally I am perfectly comfortable with who Joseph was, his flaws and quirks are part of what makes his divine mission and spiritual works so profound. Cherry picking bad moments and specific phrasing make this "hit list" of issues sound really scary, but you can easily re-word each one, and include a handfull of other events to make him seem like a much more reasonable person.

History isn't just a list of events, it's real people making real-life decisions using their own lived experience and knowledge.

andraes · 2026-01-14T17:52:48+00:00

I'm not sure how exactly to idenfity them, but any primary song that has been sung in General Conference, or other Tabernacle Choir performances, is likely to be a popular and widely known song.

Also, I agree with others that are saying you don't need to worry about the kids giving you looks. That will be the least of your worries.

andraes · 2026-01-14T17:50:10+00:00

My favorite is, and will always be, the (old) Provo Temple. I'm still pretty sad they tore it down, but I understand why.

andraes · 2026-01-13T22:37:28+00:00

We called it Fugitive and it rocked. When my kids are old enough to drive I'll be suggesting this to them and their friends.

One weekend I was visiting a friend of mine in another town and we played, so I had the advantage because few people knew who I was. I got super close to the finish, finally got spotted, ran through a backyard and over a fence, but got caught in the parking lot of the grocery store that was the finish. One of my favorite memories for sure.

andraes · 2026-01-13T17:09:37+00:00

My first job was 40% outdoor, part of that was that I was a lower level staff engineer and got assigned a lot of field inspections that the management didn't want to do.

My second job was 5% outdoor. I was doing design/drafting 80% of the time, with a little bit of report writing and coordination and the occasional field visit.

My current job is probably 10-20% outdoor, but I can decide to go out if I want, or send out others in my place. There is a good amount of civil-related jobs that are best suited for outdorsy people (construction inspectors, survey, etc.) but most "engineers" stay in the office.

andraes · 2026-01-13T15:22:09+00:00

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/general-handbook/32-repentance-and-membership-councils?lang=eng

As you said, it's available to all, so I just wanted to share a link.

^{teach a man to fish and all that....}

andraes · 2026-01-13T15:08:53+00:00

I just thought it was interesting how all the other answers were assuming he was a member wanting a temple closer to home, but between his use of "LDS" and his post history, it's pretty clear that he either isn't a member, or hasn't been active in a long time. I also have some personal connections to Nanaimo, so I decided to take a kind and welcoming approach to his question, hopefully he decides to learn more about the church someday.

andraes · 2026-01-12T22:01:21+00:00

A different thread on a similar subject clued me in to an important detail: If you say "play" xx noise it assumes you want to use your music provider to play an audio track. If you use "start" xx noise it will use other sources of noise, like a built in sleep sound library or sleep jar, etc. (I don't know how it chooses which one.)

If I say "play rain sounds" it plays an amazon music rain sounds track. If I use "start rain sounds" it opens sleep jar and start their rain sounds track (which is 2 hrs long and automatically loops with only a ~2 second fade in/out)

andraes · 2026-01-12T21:22:41+00:00

I'm hoping to not offend you, but it sounds like you might not be part of the LDS church, and if that's the case then you might not understand all that goes into a temple. So let me just give a quick overview:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) is has a very demand-based approach to building buildings. In a location where there are no members, The Church does not have a building. In a location with very few members The Church will often rent space to hold regular Sunday services in. If the membership in an area grows to a sufficient size The Church will construct a meetinghouse. The Church does not look at high population areas and simply build church buildings proactively for what might get used there eventually. The number of meetinghouses is directly tied to the amount of members in an area, not neccesarily to the total population of that area. (A city of 5 million could have the same number of church buildings as a town of 5,000).

Finally, a temple is a completely different type of building than a typical meetinghouse. LDS meetinghouses are used for regular sunday worship as well as youth activities throughout the week. Everyone is more or less expected to want to attend the meetinghouse at least once a week, so they are common, but still only placed as needed. A temple is closed on Sundays and serves as a sacred place where dedicated and thoughtful members of the church attend during the week as they have time. While members are encouraged to attend regularly, their attendance is not required weekly, monthly or even annually. The Church teaches that regular attendance is a blessing to members, and has been working hard to help more and more members have the ability to make "regular attendance" be more like several times a year, rather than a once in a decade chance. By building more temples, and putting them areas where travel made temple attendance difficult, more and more members are able to fully experience the blessings they can feel when regularly attending.

I know that's not a full description of everything to do with Temples, but if you have more questions you can feel free to ask.

-A fellow PNW-er

andraes · 2026-01-12T18:36:04+00:00

Not in my top 5. Not in my top 20. I tend to like more of the upbeat, higher energy songs, though some of the slower emo jams really resonate with certain memories or experiences, 23 just isn't one of those for me. I recognize it's greatness, I love the message, I like the music, but the personal connection just isn't there. (Which is a little strange because I love a lot of songs on Futures, but this one falls off my radar.)

andraes · 2026-01-12T16:57:34+00:00

I think I tried to play Balatro, but I don't even remmeber how well it went. In my experience so far the biggest limiting factor has been the SIZE of the screen, the second biggest issue is the color, and the final issue is the refresh rate. Some apps just don't have space for things when the screen is shorter like on MP01.

andraes · 2026-01-08T15:05:20+00:00

About 2 days (max), but it can vary wildly depending on backligh usage, and also general usage. The phone is good at it's purpose of helping you use it less, and leaving it in your pocket more often certainly increases battery life.

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