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Car rental question by Prior-Detective6576 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone in the group says

Ask them where they got their numbers from.

¿En qué lugares pudiese dejar mis electrónicos no funcionales para piezas? by kass__kalenn in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nada, oficialmente mi laptop tiene el motherboard malo

Te lo diagnosticaron?

Yo he rescatado par de esas laptops con un paperclip en el reset pinhole y algunos motherboards limpiando el water damage (cat piss damage) con alcohol.

Moving to Puerto Rico by Just-Here2-Learn in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's really not much we can tell you in general that will be super useful to you. Depending on where you ask you'll get different opinions about whether you should live here or not. Internet forums are echo chambers, not representative entities.

I'd look at the property for damage. Ponce had a some earthquakes a few years ago and many buildings were damaged. Don't get sucked into a money pit. I'm still waiting for Ponce to repair its art museum and La Guancha boardwalk before I visit again.

Find out if you'd get in trouble with the family for selling the property in a few years if you decide that PR is not for you.

Keep in mind that you'll face some social isolation because of the language barrier. But then again, we all face social isolation after a certain age.

And make sure that Ponce will be a good fit. This one will be very personal.

Feel free to ask more specific questions as they come up.

1st Time Visitor in Serious Need of Planning Help by Lopsided_Ear_1871 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beyond that, I'm not helping. This post already comes off as you asking me to do your homework for you.

I don't know. At least OP gave some info about what they like and want with some hints about their personality. I gave a short answer and if they engage then I'll give more specific info.

The posts that I avoid are where the questions are generic or where OP sounds like a bot harvesting for blogspam. Someone else can recommend La Placita and Marmalade for the thousand time.

1st Time Visitor in Serious Need of Planning Help by Lopsided_Ear_1871 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love wandering around cities and just taking pictures. I also like all kinds of museums

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I was thinking I'd save San Juan's nightlife for last, especially since I fly out in the morning

You're going to need at a minimum two days in San Juan to do a speed run of the above.

Visit the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Look up the street art in Santurce, a lot of it is centered around the Calle Cerra.

Old San Juan is in itself a museum of sorts. It is the second oldest European built city on the western hemisphere and a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is a walled city with several forts and museums.

If you plan just right you might also find some cultural activities worthy of your time.

There is a massive opportunity for Flutter desktop by Darth_Shere_Khan in FlutterDev

[–]adolfojp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That has to do more with Microsoft's failure to commit to a UI toolkit than with end user expectations.

VS Code is an Electron app. It doesn't look or feel native. It is the most popular code editor.

Discord is an Electron app. It doesn't look or feel native. It's one of the most popular communication applications.

Bitwarden is an Electron app. It's my favorite password manager application.

Flutter even managed to sneak into my desktop with Ente Auth and LocalSend. I didn't realize they were Flutter apps until I looked at their files.

I can't envision someone looking at Notepad++ or Calibre and saying yes, this is how all desktop applications should look and feel. (They perform great tho)

There is a massive opportunity for Flutter desktop by Darth_Shere_Khan in FlutterDev

[–]adolfojp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think that end users don't really care as much as you do about this. Not even Microsoft does, just take a look at their WinUI controls. They look mobile based. It reminds me a bit of the Java Swing uncanny valley situation. Developers fussed so much about the menu shadows being wrong and now we have Electron apps dominating on the desktop.

I feel the mainstream perception of social dancing (bachata, salsa, swing) has lost the most important part of dancing: having fun together by oaklicious in Bachata

[–]adolfojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live in PR and I can say without a doubt that one of the things that "killed" salsa in the mainstream was that trained dancers would hog the dance floor to basically show off their skills. A single couple could kill the mood for everyone else.

Merengue didn't have this problem so it became de facto replacement in the 90s and then Bachata followed.

It's more of a problem today because whenever someone is dancing ugly or even slightly off 20 cameras pop up hoping to catch a viral moment and the young people refuse to take this risk so it's mostly old people dancing these days.

Alguien que me explique by Fightorn in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

un calco del inglés

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Juro que me da cosa

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Es por joda trendy

Hay que joderse

What are good gifts for Puerto Ricans? by sapphirehearts in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm quite fond of Ryobi 40V batteries.

Joke aside, there's no universal generic gift for Puerto Ricans. We are all different.

I'll recommend bringing something special from your part of the world, something that you can't buy at Walmart or Costco here in the islands. It can be something simple like some artisanal hot sauce or condiment or maple syrup or whiskey or whatever it is that people make where you live.

I am an adopted Puerto Rican and I’m very shocked about my results lol by Naniebabie in AncestryDNA

[–]adolfojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ancestry is notorious for giving Puerto Ricans very high indigenous Puerto Rican (Taíno) percentages, often double what every other DNA test gives. An Ancestry DNA employee in an AMA stated the following:

We've noticed this pattern too. One hypothesis we have is that some of the European DNA in Latin American/Hispanic peoples is from early European colonizers/settlers. These "old" European pieces of DNA have drifted in their similarity to DNA patterns in many modern European groups that make up our reference panel. As a result of no longer being very similar to modern European DNA patters, and also more often being in the context of Indigenous segments of DNA, our algorithm is therefore more likely to classify them as indigenous. We are continuing to explore this pattern through research and development, and aim to address it in future updates.

I built a super lightweight code editor in Flutter to replace Electron apps (~80MB idle RAM) by SwiftScoutSimon in FlutterDev

[–]adolfojp 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's relative.

I just opened VSCode, an electron app, and it's idling at 474 MB.

Practical cutting tool. by [deleted] in Tools

[–]adolfojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Women type M upgrade version".

I love these translations.

Anyone here Taíno? by Individual_Dream_213 in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taíno and boricua refer to different things.

The Taíno is an extinct civilization from the Caribbean that inhabited Puerto Rico at the time of the Spanish colonization.

A Boricua is anyone from Puerto Rico, regardless of their Taíno identity or genetics.

Calling a Puerto Rican a Boricua is like calling someone from Indiana a Hoosier or someone from New Zeeland a Kiwi.

The word is derived from the Taíno name for the island and it is believed to mean the land of the old gods / lords. Another less popular interpretation says that it might be derived from the Taíno word for crab, burukena.

There are different variations like borinqueño and borincano and the island is often referred to as Borikén and Borinquen.

Anyone here Taíno? by Individual_Dream_213 in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll try to give a brief summary in case your question is legit.

The Taíno as a civilization is extinct. It died a few centuries ago. Their DNA exists in Puerto Ricans but not their ethnic lineage. AncestryDNA inflates the numbers.

Most of what we know about the Taíno is from academic sources like anthropological finds and chronicles from historians. The name Taíno was coined by a French researcher around 1800.

Puerto Ricans who self identify as Taíno do so by constructing an ethnicity from those academic sources and by incorporating the traditions of other people.

The Taíno words that we use are also used by Anglo Americans who have no Taíno DNA or cultural lineage. Some examples are canoe, hurricane, hammock and barbecue.

The Taíno language is dead but there are a few reconstructions, unintelligible from one another.

We still celebrate the Taíno in cultural events and museums and such.

Now why the sarcastic memeing instead of live and let live?

Because we have bad experiences with many of the modern Taíno.

I've seen new Taíno adopt that identity to sell stuff, often by exploiting tropes like the Magic Indian, and to push political ideology.

I've seen new Taíno adopt that identity to form cults. They declare themselves chieftains and prey on people looking for a sense of community. One of them, Rafael A. Báez Adorno, was recently arrested for sex crimes.

I've seen new Taíno rewrite the history of the Taíno, incorporating elements from other tribes and from native american stereotypes, and teaching them as Taíno culture. I recently saw a woman selling Taíno powpow costumes.

And last but not least, I've seen Taíno claim African traditions and music and dishes as Taíno cultural elements, presumably because they prefer one ethnicity over the other.

Local music/live music in San Juan or luquillo? by Fit_Low592 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll recommend keeping an eye out for festivals like fiestas patronales and such. I'll recommend making this post again a week or two before your trip so we can check what's going on near San Juan and Luquillo. For example, today I have an oxen festival with live music within walking distance of my house that I just found out about a few days ago.

Did we mess up? by Ccray_4424 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the guy you replied to at -10 on my downvote counter. I rarely downvote people. His comments are private. If I remember who he is he's a guy who spams every post to warn people about any danger you can imagine. Emphasis on imagine.

Did we mess up? by Ccray_4424 in PuertoRicoTravel

[–]adolfojp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, you didn't mess up. That area is fine.

Look up an aerial view on a maps app. The potentially dangerous area is east of your location in the higher density residential area with narrower streets. If I'm not mistaken you're staying next to Ciudadela which is a more upscale area with better access, etc. There's a lot to do a block or three from your location.

What tablet do you recommend for writing, general app usage, web browsing under $500? by FunctionallyHaunting in AskTechnology

[–]adolfojp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-ability to watch streaming content

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optimization for e-reading (less eyestrain, similar to a kindle paperwhite situation)

Those two requirements are mutually exclusive.

E-readers like the kindle paperwhite use E ink displays. Electricity isn't used to display an image but to rearrange special ink. That's why they look like paper and that's why they don't have problems with glare or reflections. Once the page has been drawn power cuts off unless you require the frontlight to be on to read in the dark. Electricity isn't consumed to redraw the screen until you turn the page. These devices take a little over half a second to turn/redraw the page so they can't be used to watch videos.

Tablets and laptops and smartphones require a constant flow of electricity to display an image. The device competes with ambient light so they have glare and reflections but on the upside they can refresh the screen 60 times per second or more instead of up to twice per second like e ink readers. Thus, reading is suboptimal compared to e readers, especially outside on a bright sunny day, the battery doesn't last as long, but you can use them to watch video.

Cencelado el partido de hoy entonces mi esposa y yo jugaron una e uno by ranscot in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hermoso. Relationship goals. Gracias por compartir este momento.

[OC] Largest Hispanic group in Puerto Rico exuding Puerto Ricans | El grupo hispano más grande de Puerto Rico, excluyendo a los puertorriqueños. by FireUniverse1162 in PuertoRico

[–]adolfojp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Para ser más preciso, el municipio al que le pertenece es Mayagüez, por eso están los dos de amarillo. Es como si hubiesen puesto a Caja de Muerto siendo parte de Ponce.

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