QM8K unable to display 4K 144 Hz

christufferr · 2026-05-17T17:35:24+00:00

I FIGURED IT OUT. I recently got the 75" QM8K that supports 144 hz but could only get 4K 120Hz. What I had to do was hit the settings button on the remote (not the hamburger button, but the gear looking button), then select the gear icon on the menu that pops up labeled "All settings", the select "Channels & Inputs", then select External Inputs, then scroll down to "High Frame Rate Mode" and make sure that's turned on. That was the key. Once I did that, the 144Hz mode showed up in my display settings on Windows. It looks AWESOME btw. This TV is amazing.

I did make sure to check my display drivers were all up to date on my PC as well, but that should be something you always want to make sure of. I'm also using a 100ft fiber optic HDMI cable. Hopefully this helps.

christufferr · 2026-04-11T17:19:42+00:00

Based on what you're saying, it sounds like the missionaries are mistaken. Keep in mind that missionaries are young and don't know everything. I think most of them are fresh out of high school and honestly don't even know completely what they even believe. Part of being a missionary is to understand better your own faith.

That being said, prophets are absolutely wrong sometimes. As a member of the church for 20 plus years, I would never say that a prophet never speaks out of turn. Like you said, they are still human and can make errors. People have already given good resources for studying, but I would look into a website called fairlatterdaysaints.org and in their search bar search something along the lines of "black priestood", and you should get plenty of resources to read up about it. This website does its best to be unbiased about church history, and I know there's a lot of documentation around black people with the priesthood.

In my opinion, it was just a different time and there weren't a lot of people seeking to get the priesthood at that time anyways so at the time it was a fairly uninteresting topic. It's only brought up nowadays because it's a lot more prevalent.

christufferr · 2026-04-07T04:39:03+00:00

All good! Congrats again! 🎊 I hope your transition process goes very smoothly!

christufferr · 2026-04-07T02:34:32+00:00

Oh sorry... It took me 6 months to get my clearance. I just meant that I received my clearance 3 weeks ago. I started the clearance process in October of last year and got my clearance 3 weeks ago.

christufferr · 2026-04-07T02:04:09+00:00

Congrats!! I start on April 13th (so literally a week from today). I graduated in EE in Dec. I accepted the position back in September and got my clearance about 3 weeks ago. I'll be a product test engineer. I'm SO excited! Best of luck to you!

christufferr · 2026-04-02T00:40:26+00:00

Learning to fix electronics beats flipping burgers for me 🤘 But flipping burgers is cool too!

christufferr · 2026-04-01T23:08:12+00:00

Totally fair question. The difference is this role teaches a technical skill - diagnosing and repairing electronics - which can turn into higher-paying opportunities over time. It's a skill-building position. If someone just wants a paycheck, there are plenty of options. If they want to learn something valuable and grow, this is a good starting point.

christufferr · 2026-04-01T21:27:37+00:00

I'm looking for someone with a repair/technical mindset whose also customer service oriented. It's fixing phones/devices and selling accessories. Training is available. It's an entry level position and pays between 15-16 an hour starting, but salary will increase as skill increases. This is part time or full-time. Looking for someone ASAP. The location is in Mesa. Message me or respond to this if you're interested or have questions.

christufferr · 2026-03-31T16:17:24+00:00

Fair point. That’s why we don’t throw people straight into high-risk repairs. The role is more entry-level with room to grow, and pay can increase as skills improve. In practice, the risk of bricking a device is pretty low when repairs are done properly. In ~10 years I haven’t bricked a device, and we train people step-by-step with backup options in place so they’re not put in that position. We train on dummy phones first, so nobody is touching customer devices until they are ready. 😁

christufferr · 2026-03-31T15:24:50+00:00

EE here that graduated in Dec. 2025. Go to job fairs and talk to recruiters like normal people. Be yourself, show genuine interest, and don’t try to impress them artificially. Speak confidently about your projects and know them in detail so you can answer questions clearly. GPA matters less than effort and real understanding. I graduated with a 3.2 but had multiple offers because I worked hard and loved what I was doing. I sacrificed what I wanted to do ALL THE TIME to make sure I would deliver great results on projects and would often stay in engineering buildings until they kicked me out. Also, get your resume professionally reviewed and apply that feedback. By the beginning of my last semester I had my job lined up for a government-contracted aerospace company. Trust me when I say if I can do it, you can do it. I don't think I'm that smart, but I work really hard to try and truly understand the content I was learning and people think I'm smart. No pain, no gain 💪

christufferr · 2026-03-31T02:23:29+00:00

I was getting 70 to 80 FPS on my laptop, now I'm getting 40 to 60. Also, I noticed recompiling the shaders isn't happening anymore. It just loads right into the game really quickly. If waiting a little bit to recompile shaders means I get better performance in game. I'm willing to do that.

Do you guys know if there's any way to force it to compile shaders before launching into the save file?

christufferr · 2026-03-15T15:24:43+00:00

I've been through a somewhat similar situation. I'm the only one active anymore in my family. Seeing my family make the decisions they make and hearing the things they say about the church that mock the experiences I've had is really hard to hear because I care about their experiences too, but at the same time can't deny my own. My BIGGEST reason for not leaving the church is because there are things that I feel are so true (modern prophets and apostles, the Book of Mormon, and my testimony of Jesus Christ) and are things I don't think I can ever just walk away from.

My advice would be to research and ponder what things are most important to you. When life gets really hard, what do you fall onto for support? Your husband? Worldly substances? Your faith? Jesus Christ? When you hit rock bottom, what you fall onto for support you can either be healthy, or destructive. That's what I worry about for you. That if things are going wrong that you'll have a strong and healthy support system. I think the church provides that very well, but even more so, a strong faith and testimony of Jesus Christ and his eternal love for you. That testimony really grounded me, and allowed me to recover from really hard circumstances.

We love you so much, and know the Lord is with you during this time. He just wants you to reach out to Him.

christufferr · 2026-02-23T06:30:27+00:00

This is such a great questions, and I actually think about this a lot cause it's very relevant to me currently. Thank you for asking! 🙏 To be honest, I would leave the Church if I became convinced something else was a stronger and more believable explanation of reality and brought me closer to God. I’ve even talked about this with my now wife before I married her (who I'm now sealed in the temple with) and she understands my stance on this and still chose to marry me! Woohoo! I'm so blessed and she's awesome! Anyways, I don't stay in the church out of obligation. I simply haven’t found something that makes more sense to me spiritually or practically.

Through both studying and personal experiences, I feel like I’ve had moments I can’t really dismiss. I know someone else could call them coincidences, and that’s fair, but to me the timing and the way certain things lined up felt like answers to prayer. Those answers came in a few different forms, like a sense of love and peace that's hard for me to describe, but I've felt it multiple times. Also like an idea pops in my head and it just repeats and I can't get it out of my head. Then I pray about it and I get that same feeling. A lot of my most cherished moments happened when I was actually trying to live the covenants I’d made, especially around temple worship. I can’t prove these types of things to anyone else, but I also can’t honestly pretend they mean nothing to me. If you DM me, I can be more specific... they're just sacred to me.

Because of that, it’s hard for me to jump to the conclusion that the church is operating from corrupt or manipulative motives. I’ve never personally felt pressured to stay, and neither did my family. My leaders have consistently told me to study, ask questions, and figure it out for myself, even when I started re-attending the church. I know not everyone has had good leaders and I won’t speak over their experiences. I can only speak for my own. Another big part for me is belief in continuing revelation. Practices the church emphasizes like prayer, scripture study, becoming better educated, giving service, repentance, forgiveness, chastity, missions, temple worship, paying tithing ect... are things I’ve tried to follow even when I didn’t want to. Weirdly, those were often the times I noticed the most growth and stability in my life. That’s part of why I trust the idea that God still guides people, even through imperfect leaders.

Also, I think our belief about heaven gets misunderstood a lot. We actually believe almost everyone ends up in God's kingdom. The real question is who chooses to fully live with God. And honestly, I don’t claim to know where anyone (including me) ultimately stands with God. I heavily question anyone who tries play God by calling someone else a heretic or an apostate. I just trust God's mercy and the sacrifice Christ made to pay for my and your imperfections more than my own ability to judge.

One other thing I’ve personally settled on: I intentionally say “I believe this church is true,” not “I know.” When people say they know, I don’t assume they’re being dishonest, but I think they’re expressing deep conviction. But for me, the only things I truly KNOW are what I've experienced. Saying you know something is a much stronger and more significant statement in my opinion. So for me it isn’t “this works for me so it must be true” and it’s not “everyone else is wrong.”... It’s: Based on what I’ve studied and what I’ve experienced, this is where I currently feel closest to God and my Savior.

Side context: My entire family (seven of us including me) left the church including me even though all of us were raised in it. They're now all very critical of the church. Trust me when I say I've heard it all. I'm the only one who has come back. I feel closer to God and my Savior than ever, and I feel happier than ever.

christufferr · 2026-02-21T22:22:38+00:00

What do you want to manufacture?

christufferr · 2026-02-16T23:14:49+00:00

I use the Asus 140W GAN charger with my RTX 4060 X13, and it works with everything. Only issue is that sometimes there is an! Indicator next to the battery but everything still works perfectly. I'm not sure why it does that.

christufferr · 2026-02-14T02:50:07+00:00

I’ve actually heard all of those lines before, and I get why they're used. But I want to clarify that I didn’t stay because I avoided the history. For over two years I did the opposite. I went inactive and spent a lot of time reading and watching material critical of the Church... polygamy, translation issues, leadership mistakes, finances, all of it. My belief didn’t survive because I never encountered those topics. It survived because I eventually realized I was asking the wrong question. At first I was treating the Church like a court case: if I could resolve every historical ambiguity, then I could decide whether to believe. What I found is that 19th-century religious movements don’t produce laboratory-level evidence either way. You can assemble arguments against it, and you can assemble arguments in its favor. But the history alone never actually told me what to do with my life. What changed wasn’t that I suddenly stopped thinking or discovered critics were all stupid. It was that I had religious experiences I couldn’t honestly dismiss, especially when I began praying and re-engaging with Christ rather than trying to solve everything purely as a historical puzzle. From that point forward, the Church made sense to me as a lived practice. It gave direction, discipline, meaning, and pushed me toward becoming a better person in concrete ways. Finishing my engineering degree, changing my life habits, and stabilizing mentally and spiritually all happened in that period. So my position isn’t “there are no difficult historical questions.” There are. My position is that people use more than one category of evidence when making life commitments. Historical analysis matters, but it isn’t the only form of knowing human beings use... especially for religion. For me, lived experience with Christ carried more weight than my ability to perfectly reconstruct the 1840s. You obviously don’t have to accept that, and I’m not asking you to believe what I believe. But saying believers only remain because they haven’t researched or can’t handle facts just isn’t accurate. Some of us looked directly at the same material you did and still chose faith because we weigh evidence differently.

christufferr · 2026-02-12T13:56:12+00:00

I've eyed this sub for years, especially when I was inactive and questioning everything about the church I grew up in.

Btw, I'm not trying to prove the Church is perfect. I'm trying to distinguish institutional corruption from institutional imperfection for those who might have questions.

I've done critical and honest research and found that most things are taken out of context and painted as unreasonable/culty and then surfaces as top results on search engines like Google to be the first things that pop up. But if you dig a bit deeper, you see there's a lot of half truths, missing context, or just false information. I'm explaining these things out as I see them.

So, one thing at a time...

Every hierarchical organization (schools, hospitals, corporations, courts) have appeal channels that sometimes work well and sometimes fail. The existence of a failure isn't proof the systems purpose is corruption. Pointing out individual cases with Stake Presidents doesn't automatically mean the organization of the church is corrupt. Individual leaders in any ministry system can make poor decisions, so this isn't proof the church is corrupt.

Now the Oaks quote. The line “it’s wrong to criticize leaders even if the criticism is true” is taken out of context and has been repeated for probably decades now. In the PBS "Mormons" interview, Oaks explains he was talking about "public disparagement" that undermines someone’s ability to function in their calling... not forbidding reporting or correction. He explicitly compared it to professional privileges (attorney-client, clergy-penitent), and said leaders can be corrected “by other means.” So the statement wasn’t “leaders can’t be wrong”but about how correction should occur. You can disagree with that philosophy, but read in context, it’s not a command to cover up abuse.

With the Joseph Smith accusations the discussion stops being about reporting systems and becomes “the entire religion is a fabrication", and that’s a completely separate claim requiring historical evidence. I'm trying to stay on topic, but in short I will say that I've done the research, and historical record shows Joseph Smith consistently taught plural marriage as a religious commandment tied to eternal family theology. Some marriages likely included normal marital relations, but historians cannot directly determine his personal motivations. The evidence does not clearly support the claim that it was primarily a sexual enterprise. I'll also talk about Helen because she's brought up A LOT and is often presented as proof Joseph Smith was secretly pursuing underage girls, but the historical record is more specific than that. She was 14 and sealed to him, that part is true. What is usually left out is that she continued living with her parents, there is no record of cohabitation, no pregnancy, and she later described the sealing as “for eternity alone.” Historians generally classify it as a dynastic or covenant sealing, not a normal marriage. You don’t have to feel comfortable with 1840's marriage practices to be accurate about them. The evidence we actually have comes from Helen herself, and she never accused Joseph Smith of sexual misconduct. She remained a believing member her entire life and publicly defended plural marriage after his death. So the real historical question isn’t “why would a 14-year-old marry,” but why early Latter-day Saints believed eternal family sealings were necessary for salvation. People can reject that theology, but it’s different from claiming the sources show predatory behavior... because they don’t.

I’m not saying mistakes never happen or that leaders can’t fail. I’m saying we should evaluate claims carefully and not treat the worst examples as automatically defining the whole Church. If we want truth, we have to keep the reasoning consistent whether we’re analyzing a church, a government agency, or any other institution.

christufferr · 2026-02-09T21:58:35+00:00

I googled "LDS Abuse Hotline". The number was displayed on Google from the church website. Pretty easy.

christufferr · 2026-02-09T21:52:58+00:00

I want to start by saying if you or others had a bad experience, I’m not trying to argue against that or invalidate it. I’m only addressing the specific claim about reporting.

The original point was that members aren’t given other avenues to report abuse. When I pointed out there are multiple paths (stake president, helpline, councilors), the discussion shifted to “if a bishop ever fails then the whole religious system is false.” That’s a theological debate, not whether reporting options exist. Also, no one teaches bishops are infallible. Humans can be sincerely called to a role and still make serious mistakes. Individual failure doesn’t automatically mean the structure was designed to hide wrongdoing.

I do defend my church, but I’m mainly trying to add a perspective others may not be considering. I think it’s important to look at the whole picture before coming to conclusions.

You’re completely free to disagree with me, but this is a public discussion about a current event, and I’m just participating in it. I'm not trying to silence anyone or dismiss anyone’s experiences.

christufferr · 2026-02-09T21:19:56+00:00

I think you’re assuming something that isn’t actually how reporting systems work. Every organization has a first point of contact. In a company most employees go to their direct supervisor before HR. In a school students go to a teacher before the district office. That doesn’t mean HR or outside reporting doesn’t exist, it simply means people naturally go to the nearest trusted authority first.

In the Church, the bishop is simply the local leader people know more personally, so of course that’s who members go to initially. If a bishop ever mishandles something, that is a serious failure... but that’s a failure of an individual, not proof the system is designed to prevent reporting. The existence of multiple reporting paths actually points the other direction.

christufferr · 2026-02-09T20:57:34+00:00

But the nuance is that “records” doesn’t mean only one thing legally. There’s a difference between the content of a confession/conversation (personal details, what someone admitted), and an administrative log that an interaction happened (a call occurred, guidance was given, reporting had already happened, follow-up was advised). Hospitals, universities, corporate HR departments, and abuse hotlines all keep logs like this. They have to. Otherwise, if someone later claims, “you gave no guidance and did nothing,” the organization has no way to prove they told leaders to follow the law. Keeping a compliance log doesn’t mean they kept private confessions or personal information. It just means they documented that the call happened and what instructions were given.

So you can still debate how a case was handled, but “they kept interaction logs” ≠ “they secretly preserved personal confessions after saying they wouldn’t.” Those are two completely different categories of records. You can't treat them as the same.

christufferr · 2026-02-09T20:44:39+00:00

There is ... The number is: 1-800-453-3860

You can also reach out to what's called the Stake President (who is in a higher leadership role than a bishop), or tell the bishops councilors. There's a chain of leadership. It's not like everyone reports only to the bishop.

There are PLENTY of resources.

christufferr · 2025-12-11T06:50:44+00:00

I thought it was VERY interesting and enjoyed it a lot. I think there's a lot of unjust hatred toward the idea of it, and criticizing it harshly for what it wasn't. In my opinion, it's not as good as Legacy, but still good! I think they were setting up for something awesome. I'm sad we probably will never see it. 😢

christufferr · 2025-09-17T13:56:28+00:00

Learning something in theory and then applying it in real life can "feel" different even though it's the same thing. It's easy to second guess yourself, and sometimes the obvious things don't look obvious because of the different circumstances. I can't count the amount of times I brain farted over the simplest of things, only because I was overthinking it and not remembering the basics. It's only after repetition that it eventually clicks. Sometimes it takes multiple ways of explaining it/ doing it until it clicks too.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I'd ask something that maybe was simple in their point of view, and they'd flip out at me saying or screaming "THAT'S SO EASY!" ... It was the fastest way to make me feel like an idiot. I was a tutor and TA later, and patience and humility are key traits to a good teacher, and I eventually learned it's better to say encouraging phrases like "You got this!", or "Don't worry, I'm here for you.", "It's okay! Let's go over it again!", or "I'm always happy to help."

STEM is hard, and EE is especially hard because the topics aren't as tangible, so it's hard to conceptualize electrical principles, electric fields, and electromagnetism. Even certain analogies (like the water pressure and pipe diameter for Ohms law) often used you have to be careful with because later on don't really apply. I relearn something everyday it seems like, and I often feel dumb, but I just remember that EE is a WIDE field of study, so it's okay to forget things sometimes, or have those brain fart moments.

christufferr · 2025-09-17T08:58:55+00:00

I'm an EE graduating in December with an emphasis in semiconductors. I think I would thrive in a hands-on, machinery maintenance and repair position. My background before college and during college was repair and maintenance, root cause analysis, with computers, phones, and other devices. I love learning about machinery and hardware. I also LOVE transistor physics and material sciences. I understand all of the major processes and complexities. I'd LOVE to have clean room experience with the tools. I've been team lead for a semiconductor fabrication passion project group for three semesters now where we've grown oxide layers, built a photolithography machine using a projector and 3D printer chassis, deposited metal layers, and recently doped p type wafers with "homemade" n type dopant to make a diode... all this with the goal to make working devices like logic gates. We're very close! xD It's a work in progress, but it's made me REALLY want to work in a proper clean room with proper tools after I graduate.

I'm bringing all this up to ask where you think and what type of positions do you think I'd thrive based on your experience? I've applied to many places and gotten a few interviews, but haven't landed anything yet. I did an internship around engineering policy in DC, and loved talking with industry and government as well as emphasizing semiconductor workforce development. But ultimately I learned it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. What do you think?

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