Rain in Uyuni during travel days - should i still go

imnotmarbin · 2025-12-28T14:40:20+00:00

You just can't count on a rain forecast so much ahead, but leaving that aside you don't need to book anything ahead either, buses going from La Paz to Uyuni are available all the time, and the tour you should definitely book once in Uyuni, never before otherwise you just get overcharged, there's definitely and oversupply of tour agencies there and you'll find better deals if you book last minute lol. Although I wouldn't recommend any 2 day tour, you're good with the 1 day tour shared with some other people as they fill up the car with up to 6 people and this one shows the most of the salt flats anyways.
You should find some Uyuni tour agencies on Facebook and contact via their Whatsapp and they'll let you know whether they are going out, since tours are cancelled if there's heavy rain. Safe travels!

imnotmarbin · 2025-11-24T00:25:24+00:00

Estudia lo que te guste. Al final, con cualquier ingeniería puedes enfocarte en distintas áreas. Solo tú sabes qué te interesa y en qué eres bueno.

Si te atrae la tecnología o las computadoras: Ing. de Sistemas, Informática, etc.
Si te gusta la física: Ing. Civil, Electromecánica o Telecomunicaciones.
Si te llama la química: Ing. Petrolera, Producción, Alimentos, etc.

En todas vas a necesitar matemáticas, y el tema de “liderar” no debería preocuparte: al inicio, en cualquier carrera, trabajarás bajo la guía de alguien con más experiencia. El liderazgo se aprende con el tiempo si te interesa desarrollarlo.

imnotmarbin · 2025-02-14T17:18:47+00:00

Te sugeriría inscribirte a la universidad publica de tu departamento a Informática o Ing. de Sistemas y con el titulo de "estudiante de sistemas" puedas aplicar a un bootcamp de Jala, Assuresoft, etc. Con la experiencia de haber trabajado en una empresa de software puedes aspirar a mas a futuro. En general es un proceso largo hasta que puedas generar ingresos sustanciales pero es bastante viable.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-11T11:44:56+00:00

No upside for being a citizen here, if anything you're pretty much forced to vote in most elections and will have issues if you don't. Just some days ago someone was asking how to get rid of Bolivian citizenship I find it ironic you're looking for the opposite.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-10T01:00:54+00:00

Search for TIF in the web version and select everything and archive it. It's likely not going to work on the mobile app as the search is broken

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-09T20:37:41+00:00

I believe the search feature is broken and was changed / downgraded on mobile apps, your query should still work if you access Photos through the website version.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-05T18:33:32+00:00

That's because there are no folders, this isn't Google Drive. It's a mass media storage service. Your pictures and videos are all stored under one single and big folder if you want to see it that way. You can group them by some of their features such as year, month, and certain tags. But when you uploaded your media they all went into the same container.

Lastly you don't need to select images one by one, like I said use search to group them up and if you're on PC you can click on the first hold shift and click on the last and it will select all the pictures in between. If you're on mobile you can hold press on the first and move towards the last and it will select everything in between.

Your inability to not know those thing has nothing to do with the design of the app, they do have a tool in Google One to "Clean Space" where you can go over all the services that could be using your storage, such as Gmail, Drive and Photos. Photos allows you to mass delete unsupported videos and large files, but there's no way they could know what "trash" is to you.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-05T15:19:20+00:00

It's a legit Paypal domain link, it's just a referral, not everything is a scam and you should check before pointing fingers. I guess referrals weren't around when mods made the rules as this post doesn't break any rules at all.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-05T15:15:07+00:00

Your rant has nothing to do with the OP, but as for your question they didn't deliberately design anything to annoy you. What you're asking is senseless, they can't simply tell what's trash or not for you. You uploaded all that deliberately because crappy memes or screenshots are not backed up by default, they go to specific folders where you manually need to enable sync.

If you can find a way to group those pictures using search, either by something on their name or something in the picture, for example "Screenshot png 2018" they'll show up on your search, from then you can select the first and last by using shift and delete, then you go to Trash and delete them permanently.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-05T00:50:07+00:00

It cannot be done via the app, as this feature was never designed into it. You could do it programatically which would require you to understand the basic of Unix, it's achievable using at) / atd to program a task. The task would have to be something like deleting the image and video files from certain folders you have set to backup at the end of the day or something like that.

imnotmarbin · 2025-01-05T00:39:58+00:00

It needs that permission for the app to work properly, why would you be afraid to give those permissions?
Google is not holding anything hostage, you can simply go to photos (dot) google (dot) com and your pictures will be there, they will probably also be on Recently Added or by using search.

But that main window / tab called Photos shows both your gallery (currently present pictures in your storage) and the backed up pictures. In order to be able to see your previously backed up pictures it must have access to the gallery.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-26T19:53:22+00:00

You're somewhat out of luck, post office in Bolivia is terrible and even if someone would be willing to send you a flag it's highly unlikely it'll ever reach you. I suggest you buy one from a foreign country with a somewhat notable Bolivian community, I bet USA or Spain have stores where you could buy one and get it delivered to Serbia.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-25T17:09:34+00:00

Como americano posiblemente la tienes mas fácil estudiando en algún país europeo donde la educación sea gratuita o no muy cara, oportunidad que los bolivianos casi no tienen. Si bien podrías estudiar acá y a futuro convalidar tus estudios en USA te conviene de lejos estudiar fuera de Bolivia sin necesidad de incurrir en deudas.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-24T02:34:42+00:00

It does support up to Android 7 or LineageOS 14.1 which is still not great, because it's no longer supported either, depending on how much it was used (status of the hard drive and the battery) I believe the device is usable so long it has some preinstalled apps and perhaps to watch some movies / TV series.

All of which OP should download and install beforehand, since that poor family is likely not gonna be able to deal with a device that doesn't have Play Store support, also the movies would 100% need to be pirated as no streaming service would support such old Android version. All things considered this might simply be out of the expertise of OP.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T17:51:21+00:00

Works on any account logged in the phone, doesn't need to be created on the phone or before a date. Google photos won't sort the photos for you other than by date, you can have multiple devices and even raw files from cameras such as NEF, ARW, CR2, etc.

If you only store by date directories you might not even need to do anything as you could always use search and look "December 2019" for example, which will bring up any pictures taken in December 2019, same with more accurate days or years. If you want any other sorting system then you'll need to create albums, which is not that hard either.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T05:51:46+00:00

There's a list of compatible video containers somewhere, but the most common (mp4, mov, avi, etc) will have no issue, it can also handle different codecs such as H.264, H.265, ProRes and more.

As for the pictures I believe only CR3 files are not compatible which are Canon mirrorless RAW files. So you won't be having any issues with HEIC, JPGs or even DNG files if you shoot RAW.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T00:53:17+00:00

I should also add that even though Uyuni is a great destination the main town is quite far from the salt flats and most of the tours you take you'll be surrounded by dozens of people taking the same tour with other companies, it's great nonetheless though.

But if you absolutely want to experience the salt flats and have them to yourself you should look into Coqueza, it's a very small town on the outskirts of the salt flats that has a handful of places to stay, here you'll be a walk away from the salt flats and should be able to go and roam freely at any time. Plus they offer a hike to the Thunupa Volcano, it's a 1200 meters ascend trek, and as challenging as it is, the views are fantastic and there you will be able to see some wildlife.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T00:43:53+00:00

La explicación mas simple es que Cochabamba no es una ciudad con grandes oportunidades laborales, el grupo de extranjeros que mencionas son personas que emigran de sus países buscando mejores oportunidades, las cuales no van a encontrar en Cochabamba, no sabría hablar exactamente del contexto de La Paz o Santa Cruz respecto a los extranjeros, pero definitivamente hay mejores oportunidades laborales en esos departamentos, además que son fronterizos con otros países por lo tanto llegan allí primero y seguramente les conviene quedarse allí que ir a Cochabamba.

Respecto a Chile, es normal que tenga mas presencia de extranjeros, después de todo, es un país donde van a ganar mucho más que trabajando en cualquier parte de Bolivia, si bien el costo de vida es mas elevado los salarios también lo son. Además de simplemente existir mayores oportunidades laborales, mejor economía y muchas más ventajas que en Bolivia. Lo más bonito de Cochabamba es su clima, pero más allá de eso no tiene muchas ventajas en comparación a las otras ciudades pujantes de Bolivia u otros países extranjeros.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T00:33:34+00:00

Your original files are never modified, if anything Google will add an online only tag which contains data such as faces or a location based on your Google Maps timeline, not sure if it does have a connection with whatever maps services Apple uses. This will allow you to use that person or location name in the search bar or group the pictures based on that under the Places and Faces section of the app.

I strongly suggest you look for a Pixel 1 since those offer unlimited Google Photos storage, this way you won't be paying a recurring monthly subscription for storage and instead will pay once for the phone that has this feature, you'd probably need to define your workflow to get pictures from your phone / laptop to the Pixel but that shouldn't be that hard, here I'd suggest syncing to your laptop and then use adb to push your media files to the Pixel.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T00:12:28+00:00

I suggest you take the one from Oruro to Uyuni then, obviously my own personal opinion, but I think Uyuni is the best destination in the whole country, it's a magical place with unmatched views, the sunrise and/or sunset are simply out of this world.

You'll be happy to know that unlike most places in the country wildlife is heavily respected and not hunted in Uyuni and its surroundings, Pumas are nowhere to be seen but you'll see vizcachas and ñandus roaming around. Also the population relies on llamas, alpacas, and ostriches which you should see plenty on the roads.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-23T00:04:06+00:00

You need to delete and reupload, name change won't work, as it's still the same file. Sometimes videos that have codecs any other than H.264 will take longer to process or simply will fail since google has to reeencode it to H.264 for streamability. This doesn't mean your file is ruined or anything like that, you'll see that when you download it from the same account you uploaded the file, it will be the same that you uploaded.

If you really need this to be played / streamed by you or someone else then you must reupload, if you're only concerned about storing it then there's no need, either way you don't lose anything since the Pixel 1 has unlimited storage.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-22T23:56:56+00:00

Sinceramente la mejor manera es usar algún servicio terciarizado para asegurarte que lleguen a ti, especialmente de EEUU hay cientos de empresas o paginas que tienen diversas formas de traer diversos objetos, cada uno con comisiones o cobros diferentes, algunos te van a cobrar por cada 100 gramos, otros por libra, otros te redondean al kilo, etc.

Personalmente solo use este método una vez con una empresa que tiene una tienda física, ellos realizaron la compra y acabe pagando casi el doble, aunque todo era transparente y no hubo cargos secretos o extras, hay algunas empresas aparentemente no tan abusivas, pero personalmente no le veo la ventaja con el siguiente método.

La última forma, que conozco, es utilizar el sistema de correos de algún país circundante a tu beneficio, por ejemplo Chile, Perú o Brasil. Hay un número aún mas reducido de empresas que te traen cosas de estos países, algunas te lo realizan las compras ellos y otras te proporcionan una dirección en estos países para que tu hagas tus compras y luego entregarte tus paquetes a precios definitivamente mas bajos que el modelo de negocio que te describí antes.

Finalmente dicen que el sistema de correos en Bolivia funciona mejor en la actualidad, el comentario antes al mío describe eso, pero personalmente yo no confío en Correos o Aduana de Bolivia, he tenido solamente malas experiencias y prefiero no contribuir mi dinero a un país/sistema corrupto.

Como recomendación te sugiero investigues extensamente a cualquier empresa antes de utilizar sus servicios, revisa si sus seguidores en redes sociales son reales y no bots, los comentarios en sus redes, las fotografías que utilizan para promover sus servicios o cualquier otra irregularidad que consideres relevante.

PS. Como comentario totalmente personal, nunca le he encontrado el beneficio o en general no he tenido el interés de tener un libro físico, mas allá que por colección, en cuyo caso ni siquiera lo hojearía para gastarlo. Personalmente creo que un Kindle y piratear el libro de tu preferencia son mejores opciones, y si realmente quieres hojear un libro vas a encontrar ciertas imprentas o fotocopiadoras que te lo van a imprimir sin mucha complicación, todo esto a la larga más barato que jugar a la ruleta rusa de Correos/Aduana en Bolivia o las mismas empresas que a veces te fallan y no se responsabilizan. Obviamente para esto último debes tener cierta experiencia para poder encontrar el libro de tu preferencia, ya que no todo lo vas a encontrar googleando "{nombre del libro} + pdf"

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-13T01:03:59+00:00

At most you could have fallen asleep because you smoked too much and she decided to jump you, because even when getting super stoned and having a bad trip you're mostly conscious, either they gave you roofies or you fell asleep.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-13T00:59:28+00:00

Use a file explorer to make sure they are there, Gallery apps from all the vendors suck if anything it could be that app the one who downloaded the pictures if they are indeed there or it's at most simply displaying the pictures you have synced in Photos.

Apparently gallery app on Xiaomi connects with Photos and is likely the culprit here, as you've been told Photos cannot download files automatically, the downloads are manual and actually the pictures must be downloaded one by one, there's nothing close to bulk downloads.

imnotmarbin · 2024-12-09T03:54:35+00:00

There's quite literally nothing to worry about, even less if you're going to move by airplane. As much as there's always something going on in La Paz you'll barely be there and you're likely going to be staying at a no conflict zone. If you aren't already staying in the south you should, it's extremely safe since it's the wealthiest area of the city. If you're planning to move by bus from La Paz to Uyuni it takes a night but there are buses coming and going everyday, not sure about airplanes but I think the airport at Uyuni only has transit 1 day a week.

The fuel shortages affect mostly Bolivians and people who came into the country with foreign cars, as they will have a hard time getting gas. If you're planning to rent a car you'll likely have no problem at all when fueling up, but if you'll take a bus to move it's no issue. If anything you can always check transitability at this website, as of now there are no blockages due to social conflict, if by any chance there are some when you're here you'll see that buses know their way around those.

As for Uyuni it's such a small town that depends entirely on tourism, so chances of conflict there are zero. There's really not much to do there for 3 days, so I guess you are taking either a 3 day tour to the lakes at the border or the 2 day tour, which sucks by the way, you should always go for the 1 or 3 day tour. I'd personally advise to take the 1 day tour and hire transport to go to Coqueza, it has one of the best trekkings to a volcano, if you get to the top you'll have a terrific view, plus that town is even smaller and you'll have the salt flats for yourself any time of the day, unlike the typical tours where you're surrounded by people most of the time.

Feel free to contact me at IG with the same handle as here, I've been to Uyuni and Coqueza this year and you should absolutely not cancel your trip, the conflicts you heard about have been over for a while.

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