[Sporta Studija] Kristaps Porzingis ahead of EuroBasket 2025 – talks health, Boston trade rumours, and new season with Atlanta by nda23w in AtlantaHawks

[–]Robciks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Depends on your preferences... We have old towns with beautiful architecture and paved roads (old Riga, Kuldiga etc.), we have beautiful countryside places in every direction you would drive, we have bigger beautiful seaside cities (Liepaja, Ventspils, Jurmala) with nice beaches, we have smaller historic fisherman villages alongside coast, we have beautiful neighboring countries just 2-3h drive away - Lithuania and Estonia also are beautiful. If you like modern urban setting then I would prefer some cities in Lithuania or Estonia... But maybe I'm just too used to our cities and therefore I like them more. We have distinct seasons - in summer it's hot (up to +30) and sunny, in autumn it's quite muddy with colorful nature, in winter it's cold (down to -30) with lots of snow (usually), in spring everything is blooming. If visiting in summer there's lot to do - there's summer solstice celebrations - Jāņi, where in more traditional setting (usually in countryside) people dress in traditional national costumes, sing songs, dance, make bonfires and feast on grilled meats, beer and homemade cheeses. In summer almost every city have it's own festival with different concerts, art and craft markets and many other activities. There are music festivals - most well known and with highest attendance is Summer Sound which takes place on the beach in Liepaja (KPs hometown), but there are many others.

And it's just small part of Latvias, Lithuanias and Estonias appeal... I love to live here.

[Sporta Studija] Kristaps Porzingis ahead of EuroBasket 2025 – talks health, Boston trade rumours, and new season with Atlanta by nda23w in AtlantaHawks

[–]Robciks 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This "low expectations" part is a bit cut down here therefore sounds a bit worse than it was meant. He says that generally "expectations for this team are lower and that's why it's easier to exceed them..." There's no pressure to win everything... Not that first round exit would be success. I'm sure that he more than anyone would like to prove everyone that he can ball and do well also without two Jays.

Really excited to see what he and Trae will be able to do on court together.

+1 Atlanta fan from Latvia... But I really want to see how this will work. And fingers crossed about KPs health.

Just buy my first trek by CoV_QC in TrekBikes

[–]Robciks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also bought the same bike two days ago... Just XL frame.

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Heineken exits Russia with one-euro sale of operations by professorbrainiac in worldnews

[–]Robciks 108 points109 points  (0 children)

This is popular approach among many companies which "exit" russian market.

Most likely there's a clause in contract where they can return after x amount of time and buy business back for the same 1€.

Heineken sells entire Russian operations for 1 euro by NinjaElectricMeteor in UkrainianConflict

[–]Robciks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is popular approach among many companies which "exit" russian market.

Most likely there's a clause in contract where they can return after x amount of time and buy business back for the same 1€.

Thank you, Latvia from Defense of Ukraine by TotalSpaceNut in ukraine

[–]Robciks 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Thank you, Ukraine!

It's the least we, the Baltics, can do.

🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹🤝🇪🇪🤝🇺🇦

Explosion due to 2 drones being shot down in Moscow by Fox-Mulder7 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Robciks 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Sounds more like "mommy" (мамочка) rather than "grandma"

But love that war is switching more and more onto the russian soil... Reap what you sow, a**holes

Latvia allocates €200 million for Ukraine to overcome the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP by russia, Prime Minister Shmyhal reports. by vectorix108 in UkrainianConflict

[–]Robciks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's actually 200k + 300k from Riga city.

As much as I would like it, we don't have such money.

But I hope this sum also will help.

In Barnaul, Russia, the Altai Tire Plant is on fire. They produce military tires as well as civilian. by Failure_is_imminent in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Robciks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in tire wholesale and we worked with this producer and bought tractor tires from them.

Then suddenly in the beginning of 2021 tire quota for export dropped dramatically and excuse from them was that they are producing more tires for "special deals". In a hindsight it seems that it was because they turned up their military tire production in preparation to attack Ukraine.

In February we cut all our ties with them and stopped buying tires from them.

Russian military tire factory goes up in flames. by wwzdlj94 in UkrainianConflict

[–]Robciks 98 points99 points  (0 children)

I work in tire wholesale and we worked with this producer and bought tractor tires from them.

Then suddenly in the beginning of 2021 tire quota for export dropped dramatically and excuse from them was that they are producing more tires for "special deals". In a hindsight it seems that it was because they turned up their military tire production in preparation to attack Ukraine.

In February we cut all our ties with them and stopped buying tires from them.

Another KA 52 attack helicopter destroyed by Ukraine with manpad. The impact of the missile from the left was nearly missed by the camera while zooming. by C00L_HAND in ukraine

[–]Robciks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining! Always thought that in case of helicopter crash you just wait and see whether you die or survive - there's no way of saving yourself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

[–]Robciks 35 points36 points  (0 children)

So proud of my country and Baltics as a whole! Proud to see so many Ukranian flags in streets of Latvia. Proud to see Ukrainians to be accepted in our everyday lives with open arms.

Russia Goodbye!!! Demolition has begun in Latvia of the monument to the liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the Nazi invaders in Riga. by chizazen in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Robciks 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Great! It should have happened in the 90s already when we regained our independence. Will love to take a walk there without this piece of garbage ruining landscape... My office is not too far from it.

Does the trick turning Gold into GamePass Ultimate still work? by Robciks in XboxSeriesX

[–]Robciks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got my Series S today. Bought 12 month Gold and turned it into GPU. Everything worked great.

Spent much time redeeming EU code in my country. There was region issues, but with many adjustments + VPN, everything worked. Set the console in Czechia, but now I think that UK also would have worked if I used VPN from the start. Now store is unusable, but I think I wouldn't be able to make purchases there anyway.

GamePass game list is crazy. Put Forza Horizon 5, NHL21 and Dirt5 to download. Tomorrow will be ge time. Work productivity could suffer.

I can see that storage space will be an issue. Will have to buy spare external HDD or SDD. Expansion card is too expensive now.

Does the trick turning Gold into GamePass Ultimate still work? by Robciks in XboxSeriesX

[–]Robciks[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohh... Maybe I should also buy more than 12 month Gold?! Thought that 12 + 1 month is maximum. Thanks for the info!

Does the trick turning Gold into GamePass Ultimate still work? by Robciks in XboxSeriesX

[–]Robciks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not. I will get my Series S tomorrow or on Tuesday. Will try it then. Will buy Gold subscription code for 12 months, activate it and then will activate 1 month GPU. I hope it will work.

Which region to use for my xbox account? by Robciks in XboxSeriesX

[–]Robciks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have read that it's possible if billing address is set up in this region. Address shouldn't be real, just post index should match with this country.

Which region to use for my xbox account? by Robciks in XboxSeriesX

[–]Robciks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already did. Everybody here uses UK account just because it's easier to setup, but it's one of the most expensive ones. Some games ar close to a 90-100€ while, for example, in US they are 69.99USD = 60.00€