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We had our property management company come and repair a broken ballast on our staircase.

The technician that came was new, as the prior one had been promoted to manager of all their properties.

When he was repairing it, he said “I noticed you had some lightbulbs out. I have bulbs in my truck, would like me to replace them for you?”, tone heavily suggesting it to be a courtesy.

We were surprised by the offer, as we have always taken care of those ourselves. We thanked him and said “sure! We would love that”

The next day, we got an $84 charge for replacing the 7 or so lightbulbs.

The lease agreement states we are responsible for general upkeep around the house and always understood that to include the lightbulbs. And for the 5 years we have been in the house, we always replaced the lightbulbs ourselves.

The lease does not, however, state they will charge us if they provide services for such tasks. Nor does it list charges for if the management company were to do it themselves.

FACTS UP TO THIS POINT:
\- We agree with the property management company it is our responsibility.
\- There is no listing of charges for services rendered by the management company
\- The replacement of the lightbulbs was offered to us as a courtesy
\- There was never any disclosure that we would be charged for the service

I’ve been going back and forth with the office on this and they keep stating “this is the responsibility of the tenant”, which I already told them I agree with, and that it isn’t what we are fighting. We are fighting the undisclosed charge for the service offered as a courtesy by the technician.

Additionally, the technician is arguing that we initiated the request, not him.

We offered to pay the material cost of the lightbulbs, but not whatever service charge they tacked on top.

This really just seems like a big misunderstanding on protocols due to the new technician.

Thoughts?

NOTE: there are a few lines in the lease that say things like “all service requests must be submitted through their portal” (which the light bulb repair was not). I don’t care to make this argument about technicalities in the lease… but should I start pulling that card if they are to keep going back to the agreement?

Location: Utah

We had our property management company come and repair a broken ballast on our staircase.

The technician that showed up was brand new, the one we were use to having had been promoted to manager all the properties.

When he was was repairing the ballast, he said “I noticed you had some lightbulbs out. I have bulbs in my truck, would like me to replace them for you?”, tone heavily suggesting it to be a courtesy.

We were surprised by the offer, as we have always taken care of those ourselves. We thanked him and said “sure! We would love that”

The next day, we got an $84 charge for replacing the 7 or so lightbulbs.

The lease agreement states we are responsible for general upkeep around the house and always understood that to include the lightbulbs. And for the 5 years we have been in the house, we always replaced the lightbulbs ourselves.

The lease does not, however, state they will charge us if they provide services for such tasks. Nor does it list charges for if the management company were to do it themselves.

FACTS UP TO THIS POINT:
- We agree with the property management company it is our responsibility.
- There is no listing of charges for services rendered by the management company
- The replacement of the lightbulbs was offered to us as a courtesy
- There was never any disclosure that we would be charged for the service

I’ve been going back and forth with the office on this and they keep stating “this is the responsibility of the tenant”, which I already told them I agree with, and that it isn’t what we are fighting. We are fighting the undisclosed charge for the service offered as a courtesy by the technician.

Additionally, the technician is arguing that we initiated the request, not him.

We offered to pay the material cost of the lightbulbs, but not whatever service charge they tacked on top.

This really just seems to be a misunderstanding of protocol on the new technician’s hiring.

Thoughts?

NOTE: there are a few lines in the lease that say things like “all service requests must be submitted through their portal” (which the light bulb repair was not). I don’t care to make this argument about technicalities in the lease… but should I start pulling that card if they are to keep going back to the agreement?

We have good momentum in our consulting firm, but we know we need to get into ai.

We use it for basic uses with LLMs, custom GPTs, etc. but I know there is a LOT more

However… every time I try and figure out what more there is, I keep running into ai bloat softwares that are just doing what non-ai softwares have been doing for years.

That, or the token demand negates the benefit that is provided.

I’ve also seen agents that call leads for you, and I am doubtful that is even worth considering.

What is going on? What are actual use cases with advanced ai?

The church wants members to engage with the community and plan community events in our neighborhoods. But they want it to be more organic, not something planned by the ward.

We discussed this in the Ward Counsel today because it needed to be announced. But half the counsel was trying to plan and organize an event around it while the other half was trying to explain that’s exactly what the church doesn’t want to happen.

“How are we supposed to plan this, then??”
“We’re not!”

It was really funny to watch.

Just curious.

Has anyone seen a baptismal interview fail because a person doesn’t want to give up their view on the trinity?

I’m not really looking for logic or reason on the question. I know it doesn’t make sense since that such a central claims

but I don’t care for that conversation. I’m looking for actual experience of a person who still held to the belief of the trinity and wanted to be baptized.

Trying to streamline using either obsidian or the google ecosystem as my personal Rolodex.

Any recommendations on using it for obsidian?

Trying to find something close to home to work so I’m not chasing fiber markets around the US.

What is the solar Utah market like these days? What are people making just selling self gen accounts?

Wrestling with this for a LONG time.

Jesus loves us. He cares for us. He knows what we are going through. But that seems to be where it all stops.

There are a lot of stresses and battles in my life, though far less than many others on earth. I’m fighting them, but the deck seems stacked against me.

I hear people say to just have faith, that Jesus sees me and knows what I need, that he will provide… but I can’t believe that because the range of things God is willing to do / allow happen is everywhere from (A) A miraculous event that transforms alive, like Alma the younger and Saul/Paul, to (Z) allowing convert women and children be burned alive for their faith, like those in Alma 14.

God knows what we need, so he should know that the human body needs temperatures below 1500 degrees to survive… yet he allows the faithful converts to die.

With that in mind, how can I possibly go through life believing Christ is going to help me provide for my family? Or overcome sickness?

The only promise, so far as I can find, is that of salvation for the righteous.

Am I understanding this right? Should I be ready to lose everything and go through all manner of pain in this life, expecting no help from God?

If that’s the case, I now know how to fix my mindset. But if it isn’t, what am I missing?

Full disclosure, I’m Mormon.

In our faith, we rely on the spirit to teach truth to the hearts of those investigating the faith.

But I’ve heard from people of other Christian faiths that you can’t rely on the spirit because your feelings can deceive you.

To which I now ask, if that’s accurate and God can’t provide personal revelation on what is true, how do you come to the conclusion that Jesus is who the Bible says he is, and Protestantism is the method he intended us to live our faith?

Full disclosure, I’m Mormon.

In our faith, we rely on the spirit to teach truth to the hearts of those investigating the faith.

But I’ve heard from people of other Christian faiths that you can’t rely on the spirit because your feelings can deceive you.

To which I now ask, if that’s accurate and God can’t provide personal revelation on what is true, how do you come to the conclusion that Jesus is who the Bible says he is, and Orthodoxy is the true faith?

Full disclosure, I’m Mormon.

In our faith, we rely on the spirit to teach truth to the hearts of those investigating the faith.

But I’ve heard from people of other Christian faiths that you can’t rely on the spirit because your feelings can deceive you.

To which I now ask, if that’s accurate and God can’t provide personal revelation on what is true, how do you come to the conclusion that Jesus is who the Bible says he is, and Catholicism is the true faith?

Any tutorials on how to get iOS shortcuts to work with community plugins like Quick Add? Ai seems to think it can, but the tutorials it gives me don’t work

Working out of town as a contractor right in the middle of the storm.

Is this ganna be serious? Should I stay inside today?

Wondering how serious I need to take these storm warnings.

I’m from out of town and working in Clinton IL. Working outdoors.

Not sure if this storm is serious or just another day in the Midwest.

Should I stay inside today or still go out to work?

I keep running into the problem of my QuickAdd plugging not syncing. And sometimes even reverting back to an older choice list on a device that hasn’t successfully synced.

Is there an easy fix to make sure all devices sync properly?

I’m a Mormon. I’ll get that out of the way to start.

Latter-day Saints have been breaking into the Christian social media finally and I’m seeing a lot of discussions and debates on theology.

But I keep getting stuck in this circle of thoughts that I cant seem to make sense of.

I’m looking for some explanation

(Note: I do understand the answers may be different depending on the flavor of Christianity you adopt. I’ve already had a few of these conversations with other Christians and the answers are always a bit different)

1. MORMONS ARENT CHRISTIAN:
   I don’t mind being excluded by various bodies of Christians. but the standard of what a Christian is seems inconsistent. When a person asks “how do I become Christian?”, the answer is always some variation of “accept Jesus into your heart”. But when it comes out that the person is Mormon, the standard is increased to include a flood of theological standards. It encroaches on “Salvation by Faith and theological study”.

I understand the importance of worshipping Jesus from the Bible over my neighbor Jesus, but how exact do we need to get the theology in order to qualify for salvation?

Jesus is my lord and savior. Suffered and died on the commission for my sins. His grace saves me. He is the Creator of the world. He is the alpha and omega. Jehovah. The great I Am. But because I don’t accept the concept of the trinity, I’m not Christian? Never mind the fact that most “real” Christians don’t understand the trinity to begin with.

Are there higher standards for Mormons to become Christian in your eyes? And why is such a deep mystery of God required to be called his people?

2. DOES ONE NEED TO BE CHRISTIAN TO BE SAVED?
   This is an extension of the prior point. I’ve heard it said that the title of “Christian” being withheld from Mormons doesn’t have to do their saved status, but just that our theology doesn’t match Christianity as taught by the Bible. This has zero comment on our “saved” status. That Mormons can still be saved, but it’s not because of their Mormon faith, it’s in-spite of their Mormon faith.
   Is that accurate? Or is there a theological standard that need to me met beyond seeing Jesus as God and my personal savior?

3. HOW CLEAR IS THE TRINITY TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE?
   This question ties to the above, but also ties to the concept of Sola Scriptura. Is it understood in the general Christian scene that the Trinity is taught clearly in the Bible? Or something that took time to develop? To me, it seems deeply suspect to claim the Trinity was understood by the early church fathers. They certainly knew there was some level of unity between Jesus and The Father, and there was also some level of separation. But the concept of Oneness didn’t develop for a couple hundred years.

Trying to find a simple and streamlined way to take notes with obsidian, referencing and embedding scriptures and quotes. Ideally connecting to gospel library

Anyone have a nifty note taking method for this?

New to obsidian and trying to figure out what is possible

Template Goal:
- select template
- dropdown selection of my various workout routines.
- I select the one I’m going to do
- note populates with the workout circuit where I can input reps, weight, and sets

Best way to accomplish this? I was trying to use ai to help me build it in templator and it just started going in circles

Bonus: is there any way to accomplish this without templator?

I think I’m leaving the apple cult and looking to get on the pixel.

I love the Google ecosystem and looking to simplify and streamline things.

I’m what ways does the pixel excel with the Google ecosystem in comparison to other phones?

Spent my life putting up with and growing comfortable with king James language in our scripture.

Then the church recently released an encouragement to use other translations.

At first, I thought this wasn’t for me because ai had grown so accustomed to the language.

Then I was reading Romans yesterday and a certain passage didn’t make a lick of sense. It got pretty annoyed and now I plan on getting an NSRV version of the Bible.

Has BYU or any other scholarly source produced a similar translation of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants?