unknown scam phone calls...(plus extras)

I thought those of the online Instagram scams that I was being a victim in 2020 was bad enough, how about this one which is currently occurring on me through MANY of those unknown phone numbers? Believe or not, they call me specifically using regular phone numbers instead of WhatsApp like several of those advanced scammers with their respective methods out there, though this particular type of classic scam is already existed since more than decades ago, way before those of the advanced ones with combination between WhatsApp and those online social medias are now exist. Since I also installed GetContact on my 📱, I somehow leaked the slight secret about who are the culprits behind all of those unknown phone numbers, which I have no clue about how come if they also leaked my phone number there too.

After I briefly checked it through several of the identified ones (specifically for those ones which GetContact flags them as a spam, because there are many of them that are remains unidentified, oh boy), it turns out if those culprits are indeed either fake online loan promoters and fake (supposedly) technicians from one of the popular ISPs in our entire country, for this case (if I'm not mistaken, unless if I already read those popular articles related about them from various online news portals). There's not much else that I could say to them apart from the fact I still able to simply ignore them at all costs, unlike those online Instagram scams that I mentioned just earlier. So that's basically just it, I obviously DON'T accept any of those suspicious regular phone calls like so for highly obvious reasons. Which means, the only action that I'm gonna do against them is obviously blocking their phone numbers specifically using my 📱's built in contacts app (and possibly using Getcontact app too), though I'm not sure if they somehow able to call me back with a vengeance.

As for the bonus related to this short article, specifically in one of the popular online marketplaces. In the exact time where those of the aforementioned unknown scam phone calls that are now a thing in mass numbers instead of few, I received a single direct message thread from a fake (some sort of) customer service account on the direct message section where "they" claimed if my account would eventually suspended if I didn't do certain tasks which "they" specifically give to me, and "they" also sent me a random Google Drive link of an unknown file which I didn't even check it due to the fact I immediately deleted the entire direct message chat itself anyway, particularly in order to save my account from getting banned or hacked... This also reminded me to those times when I used to receive those of the SMS inbox message threads, which particularly claimed if I won IDR 500.000 (❔) from (supposedly) those of the popular marketplaces including that one where that particular unknown fake customer service itself used to exist there. They also even provided me those links that redirected to their fake Blogspot "winner" websites instead of redirected directly into their official sites from those online marketplaces, though they clearly stated if they don't do certain stuffs like so outside their official events from themselves. Those fake Blogspot websites also provided those WhatsApp numbers led to those of their following scammer syndicates, which roughly using the same scamming method like those online Instagram scams that I also mentioned earlier.

Well then, there's not much that I particularly say about this apart from the fact you MUST avoid them at all costs. If you suddenly caught those of the unknown phone call numbers especially outside WhatsApp, DO NOT call them unless if they're from the trusted source, or specifically from people that you know through your own phone app or contacts app. As always, pay FULL attention when it comes to dealing with one of these even if I already being a victim for few of those, because like majority of those scammers out there, you definitely don't want to lose your bucks over those simply for nothing.

Dealing with electric fans with ball bearings...

Pretty sure if majority of electric fans (mainly for ceiling fans) do have ball bearings on each of their own motors, right? Well, there are two obvious answers for this, "yes" for ceiling fans and "no" for certain fans besides ceiling fans. The word "yes", it's clearly because almost every single ceiling fans always came equipped with ball bearings on them no matter what. On the other hand though, the word "no" also literally means not all of the portable fans do equip with ball bearings on their own motor though, with some exception of those industrial fans (which they usually equipped with ball bearings on each of them). Unfortunately though, I made a blunder on one of my portable fans that I own recently in my current house, and it was the only one that came equipped with ball bearing inside it's own motor, instead of the run-of-the-mill bushing ones. So, without further ado, let me explain about how come if I made the aforementioned mistake that I did to it.

my KDK box fan

There's not much else that I could particularly say about how come if I made the said blunder itself, it's because I was once cleaned the aforementioned fan itself (for this case, my KDK box fan). Everything about it was silly when it comes to how I cleaned it in general, albeit it was somewhat trickier than my previous fan of the exact same type that I used to own just before. Until I decided to lubricate it with a lubrication oil (instead of grease like what my fellow fan enthusiasts would strongly advise to me, just because), then I decided to test it by rotating the shaft itself with my bare fingers, it eventually made the bearing noise from it's own motor every single time. It also made the matters worse upon I powered it up, the noise from the bearing itself suddenly went louder, even if I put it's own blades on it. Simple as that, after that exact blunder that I made particularly with it, it's still makes it's own bearing noise until today, although it still runs smooth though (unlike my previous fan of the exact same type [except for different brand], which it had damaged bushings and shaft that caused it ran so stiff). Yes, it originally had bit of bearing noise since I newly acquired it from more than a year ago, except it was much less louder compared to how it sounds nowadays.

As for how one of my fellow fan enthusiasts commented on that YouTube Shorts video that I made specifically about it, here's how he briefly explained particularly about the problem itself:

"yep, bearings cannot lubricated with oil, they only can be lubricated with grease. the only way to fix it is replace both bearings to the new ones. because the grease inside must be turned liquid already due to the oil, and therefore a friction occurs to the balls. so they couldn't be fixed anymore (although you trying to add more grease to the bearings)."-immafacts

Well then, pay attention when it comes to how you treat your own electric fans with ball bearings on them, especially when you lubricate them. Lesson learned: never lubricate them with any lubrication matters besides grease, because there is no absolute way to reduce the noise itself apart from the fact you must replace it with the brand new ones for sure (results may vary per each types of the electric fans)... If you have your own experience when it comes to treating your own electric fans with ball bearings equipped on their own motors, let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could specifically say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this article.

My thoughts about YouTube vs. any ad blockers...⚠

Recently, I received this exact serious warning during I tried to watch all kinds of YouTube videos, specifically on the web version of it with an ad blocker extension that I literally installed in each of my 💻's browsers since several years ago. However, instead of me watching them like it normally should be without all of those video ads, I immediately got greeted with that aforementioned warning where I MUST disable the ad blocker extension itself, otherwise I would ended up violating their own terms of service if I would recklessly doing so... Well, before I explain about this particular situation, I already explained it somehow in one of my older articles that partially explained about dealing with any kinds of random video ads that I ever seen them on YouTube in general (both 💻 and 📱 versions), particularly about any kinds of video ads that I ever encountered on them every single time I watch any YouTube contents.

Before I explain about the current situation about it shortly, let me explain them again particularly about what kinds of video ads that usually appears these days from my perspective (specifically right after I disabled the ad blocker, and so for specifically from our country [ID]), even though I also encountered them in both 📱 and 📺 versions of them too. Ranging from not-so-annoying ones, until all the way to the most annoying ones, so here are my lists of themselves, right away:

a. Not-so-annoying 👌

• Skippable ads from any sort of community centers around our country (such as Qur'an learning centers, certain donations from certain communities, etc.),
• Skippable ads from certain ads that are somewhat relevant to my own content (for this case, air conditioner ads, albeit if they're extremely hard to come by since the last one that I encountered back from few years ago, even if I didn't log in to my own account),
• Skippable ads from certain movie trailers (for this case, movie trailers from Netflix and Prime Video, if I guessed the latter one right),
• Skippable music video ads from random music band performers out there, either from our country or foreign ones, albeit they're somewhat hard to come by from my own perspective (even if I recently listening to certain music videos that I enjoy though), and
• Some random unrecognizable skippable video ads from certain foreign sources, even if they are somewhat uncommon to encounter them randomly.

b. Mid 🙁

• Skippable ads of any modern day video games and certain popular mobile apps (most commonly are the online marketplaces, trading apps, online taxi apps, etc.),
• Skippable ads of any random products that they sell on certain online marketplace (which most of them are usually appears casually on the TVC), and
• Skippable ads of any gadgets (most commonly flagship devices from any popular brands)

c. Annoying 🤬

The answer of it is truly obvious, ANY of the dreaded UNSKIPPABLE video ads. 

Now, "How's your thoughts exclusively about when it comes to this particular current situation where YouTube recently decided to do this indeed, exclusively in the web version of them with their own ad blocker extensions installed on every single users out there?"... Well, there's nothing else that I could particularly say apart from the fact I must deal with them anyway no matter what, apart from the fact it somehow helps each of the YouTuber's revenue for a bit (especially for majority of not-so-popular YouTubers with extremely low income of the said revenue itself per each of the channels around the entire world, including my own channel with ~6K of subscribers). Well, that's one of my assumptions about it then, because there's no absolute difference between those days before they deliberately did this and these days right after they did this on purpose indeed, it's due to the fact my own YouTube's channel revenue keeps dropping down the amount of it's own passive income since roughly last 2 years, thanks to how the overall amount of views on my own entire YouTube channel also severely decreased as well, unlike several of my own videos that I uploaded from more than approximately 3 years ago. Yes, you can watch those of my older YouTube videos that I published from then, but again, that doesn't help by how both of the said revenue and the said views are drastically lowered overtime like so, or on the worst cases, it sometimes eventually doing so all the way down to almost 0, TBH.

Watching an air conditioner ad before I watch my own YouTube videos... (Note: Indonesian languages and this was taken from few years ago, even if I didn't log in to my own Google account though)

As for the ways about how I watch all kinds of YouTube videos from either 💻, 📱, and 📺 platforms these days, there's nothing difference apart from the fact I must deal with all of the ads that are mad commonly appears in there (including many of the unskippable ones, because they do), especially in the beginning or the endpoint of any YouTube videos that I watch (or even those of the mid-rolls, specifically for any of the aforementioned videos that has approximately 8 minutes of length or more). However, I found the way about how come if I can watch majority of them without getting annoyed by all of those ads, except I only did it exclusively in the 📱 version (specifically for Android versions). I couldn't tell you about what kinds of those third-party apps where you can watch YouTube videos without all of those video ads, but most of the apps are literally available out there, and you can even able to log in your own Google account on any of them without any issues (unless if most of the apps just log out once you close the whole app itself though, so be careful for using one of those third-party apps anyway). Even if you can watch YouTube videos without any of those annoying video ads, you definitely somehow deal with plethora of banner ads that are commonly appear in there instead...... or even those of the independent video ads or interactive ads that might appear every single time when you open each of the apps, which most of them are indeed unskippable (you have to wait it for n seconds until the said ads themselves ends, then you can close it either way).

Well, there you have it for the latest update about how's going on with the 💻 version of the YouTube in general, particularly when it comes to dealing with ANY of the ad blockers that are installed in everyone's browsers, including me. I don't know if this might be somewhat helpful for majority of not-so-popular creators or not, because that's definitely the sole reason about how come my own YouTube channel with ~6K subscribers recently has both views and revenue are drastically decreased in past 2 years. If you have some sort of your own "unskippable video ad problems" when it comes to watching any of YouTube videos from your own perspective as an audience, feel free to share your own thoughts particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could particularly say about this recent situation exclusively about YouTube, and hope you can pay full attention when it comes to dealing them, otherwise you would ended up violating their own terms of service if you keep recklessly doing so no matter what.

after i moved in to my new house...➡🆕🏠

Not too long after I made my previous article that I clearly explained about the whole progress of how I moved out from my old house into portion of my dad's main workplace, I officially moved into my new compact house shortly after I made my aforementioned article about it just before... Well then, it's time to explain about another progress about how I and both of my parents moved out almost everything from (supposed to be) that particular transit place, until all the way about how we officially settled into my house. 🏠

Before we officially moved into my new compact house, we actually have some negotiation with my dad's whole family in order to set the date particularly about when we will officially moved into my new house, and they decided to set it in June 10th, albeit they already decided it just roughly 2 months before that particular moving day. As the time goes on, I prepared almost everything that I needed in order to use it in my current house. However, I also simply left most of my own items that I didn't need anymore in portion of my dad's main workplace, and so for both of my parent's items that they both need them both for almost exact reason that I mentioned in several items of mine, including larger items such as certain electronic appliances and furnitures. They both also even left that one large horizontal wooden wardrobe in portion of my dad's main workplace, it definitely because that particular wardrobe just wouldn't fit in my new house anyway (yet it also had severe damage on it due to the termite colonies ate some parts of it already). 🏠

Okay, in the moment of truth where I officially moved into my new house, my mom literally told me if she and I were able to settle in here just a day before the aforementioned day that they set them just earlier. Right after I moved everything into here, of course I made a lot of MESS around the whole place, but I was able to organize them later on, assisted with my mom in order to so with slight ease.... Just like good old days where I used to live in my old house, everything was all quiet just like what I expected for, albeit there are only few neighbors who already settle in the whole house complex besides us, clearly because many of the houses in this particular complex where I'm living in are still under construction. Even if most of the houses in this particular house complex are still under construction, I definitely prefer this kind of environment that consists less unwanted noises just like what I used to live in my old house, instead of certain unwanted noises during I was transit in portion of my dad's main workplace which would look and sound unbearable to me (unless if I would deal with the situation and condition of that particular place though)... Yes, I occasionally hear some passenger trains passing by, but it is located just way further compared to what I used to live in my old house (which was located just SO close to the railway, but it wasn't all that bad). Even if there's a small train station nearest from this particular house complex, it still doesn't make any difference about how further the distance between that railway and this particular whole house complex is. 🏠

As for the moving party that was associated about how we already moved in to here (which was held just a day after the aforementioned day where we would officially moved into here), my mom planned to do so by renting certain sound system equipment sets from one of her friends. "Your mom rented one of your mom's friend's sound system equipment sets? I guess she rented it in order to have some karaoke in there..." Exactly! She did so in order to have some party by having some karaoke in here, yet she also invited several of her friends in order to celebrate the aforementioned party itself, and so for my dad and most of his friends too. It was kind of cozy party by singing certain songs that they chose in all kinds of genres that they wanted for. Not only just that, we also prepared a massive amount of food, beverages, and snacks as the complement particularly for the aforementioned party too. 🔊💃🎶🎤

Well, after the said party itself was over, everything was back into our "new normal" in our current home. Even if the overall space is smaller than my old house, we actually somehow still able to do any kinds of daily activities almost like those good old days before we moved out from my old house, by simply dealing with the situation and condition of the whole house itself without any kinds of complaints. With certain inventories that are now present in here (for this case, those are Wi-Fi access point and my brand new flat screen TV, respectively), it makes me feel enough to settle in this such compact place like one of these... As for today, I do feel partially comfortable to live in here just like old times, even if the location of it is way further compared to what I used to live in my previous places before this one. Again, even if I always bother by how the location of it is way less strategic compared to what I used to live just before, this is definitely the best way to settle in without any kinds of economical issues related to the place itself, after all of that negotiation occurred in my final times of us living in our old house last year... Well then, that's my (almost) whole progress of how I officially moved out from that particular transit place into my new house, and thanks for reading this particular article. 🏠

Just out of context related about this article: Imagine if the dreaded 2020 pandemic wouldn't present, I would still able to live in my old house for much longer even if it also had a lot of problems in there, so I would able to meet those neighbors in there for longer too... Nevermind, it definitely wouldn't happen anyway; it's because I actually had a major economical issue that was associated with it just a year before that particular year of ultimate pain began.

after I moved out from my old house...🏠➡🏠

Well, after I clearly explained about how come if I ain't live much longer in my old house anymore, it's time to update about my latest story about how's going on with myself and both of my parents when it comes about the current state of themselves. Well, without any mumbo-jumbo ado, it's time to reveal the said topic about the said situation anyway. 🏠

Before I explain particularly about them shortly, let's take a look at the moment where I started to move out everything from my old house into two locked and loaded locations that I kept mentioning just before. One of them which is obviously the portion of my dad's main workplace (this is literally where I'm temporarily settling in until I officially move out from there), and the other one is obviously my new compact house... As what we already negotiated to the owner of the whole house complex where I used to live near them, they literally exchanged my old house to that aforementioned compact house on another complex, which is located just approximately 4 kilometers away from my old location. Looks and sounds kinda further isn't it? Sure, even if we already recognize about the route about the location of the house complex itself once we got hang particularly with it recently, it takes approximately around 10 minutes of riding (🏍) from my dad's main workplace to the aforementioned complex itself. 🏠

Right, in the moment where I moved out from my old house for real, I literally prepared everything in order to so, ranging from my outfits, my furnitures, my electronics (including all of my electric fans), my own gadgets, and so on. But first, I must transit them in portion of my dad's main workplace, it's because my compact house still lacks certain inventories in there. After I moved almost all of them in the said transit place, it was PAINFULLY exhausted after all of that effort (TBH), yet it also makes it obviously better with ALL MESS of stuffs that we clearly have, which we must organize them to make it slightly spacious. Even if it does have a bit of space in it, most of the parts of this particular place where I'm temporarily settling in still out of space anyway... For almost all of my own items that I own, I specifically put most of them in the "lair" of the aforementioned transit place itself that they already built since several months ago by simply adding a separation wall between it and the main part of the workplace itself. As for both of my parent's items, they both literally put them in the rest space of the place itself no matter how cramped it is once they both filled the said space with them, including those large wooden wardrobes that they both use them as their separator furnitures. Looks and sounds severely awkward to you, but this is only the available space in this particular place ATM.  🏬

As the time goes on, my mom loaned some money from a bank in order to build the mini back porch of my compact house. It took approximately 3 months of building it by 3 separate handymen, and it also costed around IDR 20.000.000,- for doing so, with a bonus about how they also built the separation bare concrete wall borders on both sides of the part of the compact house's front porch itself. It also benefits by how another group of handymen equipping the same awning that used to be installed in the front porch of my old house by modified the size of it to make it fit with the overall space of the compact house's front porch. Unfortunately, even if it does have a front porch with it's current state that it has, she can't advance it further obviously due to the fact she doesn't have enough budget for finishing it anyway. 🏠

To sums up this particular topic, you may ask me particularly like this, "How's the current state of you and both of your parents after you moved out from your old house?" Well, I temporarily settling in portion of my dad's main workplace. Simple as that, even with all of it's glaring weaknesses that this particular place has, but I somehow got hang with the situation and condition of the whole place itself by simply deal with it, especially for constant traffic noises from various vehicles and how my dad always play any kind of music tracks whatever he wants for his work using pair of his speakers as loud as he does (yet every single time when he presents in there)... and so for both of my parents of almost exact reason that I mentioned just before. As of today, it's also close to the time where we eventually moved out from here to that compact house where I'm permanently settling in soon even if still lacks certain inventories in there, but it depends about how well if I can deal with that soon... Only the actual time and truth will reveal about that once it occurs soon. 🏠

Social media platform abandonments...

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Pretty sure if I do have several of my own social media accounts in each of their respective platforms that I own, ranging from my most well-known ones until most of the obscure ones that I made... Unfortunately, there are few of my accounts on each of their respective platforms that I simply abandoned them for certain reasons that caused I decided to leave them for good, unless I'm able to revisit them back after all these years. Without further ado, let me summarize about each of the social media accounts that I ever owned, but for some reason I simply abandoned them, but each of those social media accounts that I abandoned them are still present until today.

Note: This particular article DOESN'T explain about some of my accounts on certain platforms that I simply left them due to somebody blocked or terminated them for various reasons that causing them to do so deliberately on me, which they simply don't count in this anyway...

1. My personal Facebook account...

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Started off with my very first social media account that I ever created, which was my personal Facebook account, signed in using my own Google account that I'm still heavily using it until today. Back in those days, I posted my own moments during I was in primary school particularly on my own account (such as certain of my old primary school's events, my old primary school's marching band, and so on). I also posted bunch of random stuffs in there, such as enjoying Plants vs. Zombies in certain ways by following one of our country's local group page of how everybody in our country would enjoy the said game, until how I "stalked" somebody who owned KFC Plants vs. Zombies toys in their personal account, albeit those toys that they showed were just the cameo about how they participating something with those of the Angry Birds chocolate container toys like what I particularly used to have...

Aside from those moments that I mentioned before, I met a lot of my own friends online, particularly from several of my old friends during I was in primary school, and so for most of my old friends during I was in junior high school (don't ask me about how I ONLY met just so few of them anyway). I also met some people who also owned their own YouTube accounts in their days too, especially for that one Canadian legend who is well-known for blowing speakers on his YouTube channel that is still exists until today. I even asked to him specifically about the reason why he made that video of him and his friends "removing" his ceiling fan with their heads for stupid reasons, even if he replied it to me particularly about why... Even if I somewhat excited if I was able to met all of the people that I met through this particular social media in it's days, I eventually ran into a problem that caused me left it for good. Don't ask me particularly about how come if I abandoned it, but my own Facebook account that I made from around a decade ago there is still left intact without any changes until today since my last post that I made from then, even if I do receive TONS of e-mail from it as well.

2. My very first YouTube channel...

Yes, I actually created my very first YouTube channel nicknamed myself back from more than a decade ago, and I literally had no intention about what content that I would made in it's days. Even if I uploaded some of my own videos in there, such as homemade windmills in somebody's rice fields and random marching band from a junior high school, I still had no intention about what kind of major content that I would explore into... until I ran into a problem particularly about how I singlehandedly forgot my own e-mail and password that was associated with it. Because of that, I created another channel, which was using the same e-mail that I'm currently using it until today, and so for another channel that I also created for extra stuffs.

3. My very first Instagram account...

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I created this particular Instagram account back in May of 2014. Starting off by posting any of my random stuffs based of what things that I enjoy, mainly for fans and toys... Not only the fact I literally created like so in general, it's definitely because I wanted to explore anything deeper about them both in there, especially by how every people who also posted their own pictures of their aforementioned prides of them too (specifically for the toys section), albeit it was a year late. Everything about my own Instagram account and my own contents that I created there used to be normal, and the way how I followed several of the people in there also similar to what I've done with Facebook before, albeit in less quantity... Until a year later after I created it, I posted LOTS of tacky contents that are related to anything about Plants vs. Zombies, specifically by how I used to be "enthusiastic" of that one plant that is considered one of the worst ones yet in the game's sequel. I really had no idea about how come if I suddenly became an "enthusiast" of that one plant that I kept featured in it's days, but that's just me. It also made it look absurdly unbalanced by how it purely looks, which resulting in less interests with fans specifically for this particular account that I made there, even IF most of the fan enthusiasts were followed me in there... Because of that, I retired this particular account, and I created 2 new separate Instagram accounts for both fans and toys, respectively. As of the account itself that I made there, I simply left it intact, it's because I occasionally want to see my older pictures of them though.

Besides all of those, there are even more of my social media accounts that I ever owned through different social medias that I ever used. However, I only used each of them for much less amount of time than those, specifically by how I only posted my own pride just way less than those that I mentioned just above, and so for the ones that I simply never use it after I literally registered my own account on each of them too... So, here are lists about my social media accounts with the said traits that I mentioned about:

1. Twitter : I only posted bunch of my own posts in there, and that was basically it (apart from the fact I only followed some people in there). I never come back to there since last time I used it, but the account itself is still left intact, yet I still do receive TONS of e-mail from it too, including the ones that encourages me to come back in there.
2. Discord : Don't know why I decided to make my own account apart from the fact somebody requested me in order to hunt one of my favorite Plants vs. Zombies figures that I still missed until today particularly through one of the servers in there. I tried to check through it, but none of them found. So, I abandoned it, albeit the account itself is still left intact, yet I still own Discord app on my phone too.
3. Omlet 🍳: You probably never heard of this particular social media platform nicknamed of that one egg-based meal, but this particular platform literally existed as a bloatware in one of my older Android devices that I used to have... I ever made an account on it, then I simply abandoned it straight after due to nobody would bother to use it in the first place.
4. Line : One of my fan enthusiasts requested me in order to meet him and my other fan fellow enthusiasts through this particular social media platform. Everything particularly about it were alright when it comes to chatting each other in general, almost in similar manner as Whatsapp's and Instagram's direct message chats... Until I encountered a problem where I forgot my user ID on it that caused I couldn't even able to come back in there anymore.
5. Telegram : I recently made my own account on this particular account using the same e-mail that I'm currently using right now. Even if I rarely use it apart from general chats from various people that I know, I occasionally using it for just a moment though, it's due to the fact it has a feature that literally "self-destructs" the account itself if I leave it for too long.
6. Vimeo : I ever made an account in order to watch any videos with ease in there, but I never uploaded my own videos from it at all. It also made it even better, due to our country's goverment even blocked this particular platform for a moment until they decided to unblock it few years later. Due to all of that occurred, I never come back into it particularly with my own account that is associated with it anymore.
7. Snack Video : I literally made an account that is associated with this particular video sharing social media platform due to back in those days, random YouTube 5-second ads always appeared back then that caused me to do so. Instead of using my main e-mail, I used my other e-mail that I own in order to register in it. I only uploaded 2 of my own videos, and that was basically it. Even if I occasionally visit this particular platform for viewing purposes only, I still don't upload even more of my content into it since last time I uploaded them both.

Well, there you have it for my summary particularly about social media platform abandonments that occurred on me. I don't think if I eventually abandon even more than these ones that I clearly stated in here, but it depends on my own chance if I somehow able to revive each of those accounts on their respective platforms, or even otherwise keep doing it if I have enough using them either way... If you have the same experience about how I abandoned some of my social media's accounts on each of their platforms, please let me know particularly about it in the comments section. That's particularly it for what I could literally explain about this, and thanks for reading this particular post- hold on...

How about Google+ that used to exist back in those days? Well, I actually used it quite often though, it's due to it obviously integrated directly with my own Google account. Even if I only met few people which majority of them were just the ones that I also seen them on YouTube from then, before they decided to fully shut down the whole platform itself considered by how unpopular it was compared to the others.

Experience about me living in a house complex...🏠

Some of you may recognize if I actually live in some sort of house complex... Yes! However, as of these days since pandemic started from roughly 2 years ago, things getting worse and worse that caused me and both of my parents literally failed to do an obligatory objective in order to survive in this particular place much longer, or else we will evicted out soon in much less comfortable places soon... Speaking about that, let me tell you about the overall summary of me living in this particular place since almost a decade ago until today, until where I eventually ran into that huge problem that literally occurred for obvious economical reasons.

In case you've wondering about how come if I was able to settle in this particular place, I actually moved out from my old house that I also used to live with my grandma in 2012 (until she passed away in 2017). FYI, my old house looked way more traditional than this particular house where I'm currently settling in, it's because according to her, it was built somewhere in 1942. Even though I'd love to live in my old house because my old neighborhood were kind enough to meet my whole family (even down to how the house it looked), but I decided to move out from there due to that one problem that I couldn't even tell to you all... Anyway, back to the topic of this post. Even though I'd love to choose any other houses around my hometown that were affordable in those days, but I decided to buy this house on this particular house instead, it's because the fact it is located just close to my dad's main workplace... Simple as that.

This place has been worked quite well for several years about how I'm settling in this particular place, except the fact the neighborhood in this place is quite closed compared to my old neighborhood. Even though my current neighborhood are doing so, I occasionally visit few of them for certain stuffs to them (such as helping myself to fix my items, solving problems [which is rarely], and etc.). It's also located a bit further from the town center of my hometown too, unlike my old place, which only located just around few hundred meters from it. Also, judging by how you were able to hear some passenger trains passing by on few fan videos of my own YouTube channel of fans, I also live just close to a railway as well, which makes it easier to search this particular house complex through Google Maps of my hometown (if you're able to find it though). Not really a big house to settle in, but it's quite perfect for me and both of my parents to simply doing so for daily basis of all things in general. Moreover, this particular house where I'm settling in also featured as the first picture that they featured in their website of the whole house's complex itself in it's days too.

You may probably think if this particular house where I'm currently settling in has no certain rules unlike my old house would be? Well, you're completely wrong. Remember that "obligatory objective" that I was referred to? Yes, that's the one that I was talking about, which is some sort of monthly installment that the owner of house complex decided to do it on us. But before I'm talking about that for later, I'm gonna tell you about some flaws that occurred on this particular place aside from that one huge problem that we're dealing these days. Well, here are flaws of it:

• Even though I ever mini-renovated this particular place in 2016, it has some physical problems on most parts of the place, such as peeling wall paints, leaking issues when it's raining, and even horrible mold on one of the rooms.
• This place also ever invaded by some random snakes as well (albeit it was rarely per each of the row), it's because before they built this whole house complex, it used to be some sort of a sugarcane garden.
• The squat toilet in my own bathroom of this house sometimes refused to flush every s***, especially every time there's a heavy rain happening on my hometown, it literally floods the underground gutter, which is located right behind my back porch, exactly under someone's house that isn't even part of the house complex.

Well, that's the flaws of my particular place in general that I could discover to you. So, in somewhere in early of 2019, things getting worse about how we couldn't even pay the monthly installment due to certain reasons. And it makes even worse when the pandemic begins a year later, which causing us completely couldn't do it anymore which resulting to a penalty from the owner of the whole house complex. Even he did that to us, we still couldn't even do it yet which resulting to more tougher penalty, which is doing that particular objective thrice times as the regular one per month... Unfortunately though, we still couldn't do it yet due to how totally broke we are! So, there is no absolute way to survive in this such place like this anymore, apart from the fact we must evicted out from here soon to those locked and loaded places, which are obviously less comfortable than this place would be. Yes, it is located on another house complex of the same name, but way more further than where I'm currently settling it right now, yet the size of it is way smaller too (if it actually happens soon). Or else, we would simply evicted out from here to part of my dad's main workplace by converting it into a roadside cabin.

As of today... Yes, I still live in this particular place even with that one huge problem that we're totally dealing to death these days. I just really don't know what happened to us, yet I ever tried to sell this house to everybody who would interest to it. However, it didn't help at all; not only the fact nobody would buy it anyway, it's because it didn't meet it's own requirements to do it either way. So, we literally having an "arcane enigma" right now, whether if we actually have a better place aside from those ones or not. Only the truth and time will actually tell it sooner, but it's highly unlikely.

Errors and BSODs on your laptop(s)...💻❌

(Not my picture, but it belongs to somebody else who got this BSOD)

Note : Yes, I actually have my own picture of BSOD that occurred on one of my laptops that I ever owned, but unfortunately, I posted it on Google+ few years ago until the Google+ itself got shut down later on without downloading it back... So, I decided to put this screenshot instead, even though the error code on this BSOD itself is the same like what I literally saw exactly like so just before...

Well, it's time to explain about something different on tech topics, which is me explaining about certain errors and blue screen of deaths that occasionally happened in every single of my own Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.  There are plenty of certain errors and BSODs that I encountered from the past until today, especially for my first two laptops that I ever owned with their own poor specifications (unless I'd love to upgrade either one of it's own guts anyway).  Anyway, without further ado with it, let me explain about my short stories of certain errors and BSODs that were occurred through all of my Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.

A. Errors

There are plenty of errors that I ever spotted on my laptops in general, mostly occurred in some of my older ones with their own poor specifications. Here are bunch of my traits about certain errors themselves that I referred them to:

• First off, sometimes the whole system just bogged down a lot, which causing it performs so poorly (judging by the fact I checked it through Task Manager, the CPU always goes on 100%, freaking all the time!). When that happens, it occasionally makes weird "pup" sounds every time I tried to click anything, or on most cases, the cursor sometimes can't reach the taskbar or it stopped responding for a moment... The only way to fix it is obviously just force shut down the whole system, and it would probably fix it entirely. Or, on the worst cases, it would occasionally trip into BSOD instead until I must force shut it down.
  
• Another error that caused the whole system just bogged down a lot, which involves certain programs that I downloaded them from an internet, especially from the shady sites where I downloaded them from. I tried to open it, the whole system just doing that. Even I tried to delete it, it keeps doing so as well (until I finally able to get rid of it off, slowly)... There was also another behavior of the (almost) similar problem, but it occasionally occurred during I tried to open certain heavy programs, then the whole system suddenly bogged down a lot or completely stuck.
• Some older programs that intended to run on older versions of Windows would simply crash. Remember my old and popular post of me explaining those old 64 GameHouse games that were available on one my old laptops with Windows 7 installed? Most of them just wouldn't work on it or newer versions of Windows for very obvious reasons.
• Certain errors that involves me tried to connecting my laptop into my home Wi-Fi network, ranging on the way how it simply won't connect due to glitched options, IP address conflict (sometimes, especially for my good old days with Windows 7 yet accordingly to what it literally said), and so on.
• Certain severe system bugs or glitches that I couldn't recognize on which programs or system features that causing that to occur.

B. Blue screen of death (BSOD)

From what I remembered, I spotted at least two BSODs on my laptops from then until today. Although one of them may happen sometimes, but the other one was definitely the most frightening one that I ever seen so far. So, here are two moments about how the BSODs on my laptops occurred:

• First off, when I'm doing certain tasks with sounds (such as playing media files, playing games, or even online streaming stuffs), the whole system just suddenly freezes with the way how the sound also freezes as well. Then, after few seconds later, it triggers the BSOD... FYI, the one that I ever caught back from few years ago had an error code on it's own BSOD, which was Kernel Data In-page Error. Probably because I have too much force multitasking that caused it triggers like so? I think so, specifically for my old laptops with their own poor specifications.
• Then, here is my most frightening one that occurred on my very first laptop that I ever experienced so far. For absolutely no reason, it keeps BSOD right after I booted up the whole system. Unlike the first one which the BSOD stayed like it should be, this one just simply showed it ONLY for few seconds, then it restarted... It keeps doing it's own looping sequences like so for many times until I obviously force shut it down yet I brought it to the service center to reset it. I couldn't remember the error code on this particular weird BSOD, sadly.

There you have it for my own short stories of certain errors and blue screen of deaths (BSOD) that I experienced on my Windows laptops in general... As for my current laptop that I have right now, I also experienced some of the errors like what I stated above, but not all of them that I ever caught though. Here are bit of my specific experiences with my current laptop related to this topic that I clearly made in this post:

• The whole system just bogged down a lot every time right after I installed certain updates from Windows Update, sometimes. Even though I'm able to pause it for a week by accessing it's own settings, there is no way to manually stop it entirely apart from pausing it for a week, specifically for my Windows 10 version that is installed on my current laptop (Home SL)... So, in order to fix it, I have to either shut it down then I turn it on few times, or even restart it few times (if it works straight off the bat without any sudden horrible lags like so). Well, at least it doesn't trip into BSOD though.
• A tiny bit of minor problem where I do certain things with sounds (such as playing any media files, games, or even playing any of their online counterparts), sometimes the sound just freezes up for a split second... I ever experienced if my current laptop's whole system just froze the whole system with the way how the sound also froze, but it also didn't trip into BSOD anyway, because I was able to force shut down by simply holding the power button during that occurred.
• Another bad experience about how my current laptop also sometimes froze during I opened certain programs in one desktop (mainly for heavy ones like browsers, video editing software, or even games), the whole system just suddenly went stuck, and I couldn't even move my mouse's cursor at all during this occurred... Either way, it sometimes fixed by itself after few minutes; or on the worst cases, it kept doing so until it would trip to BSOD instead, but I was able to fix it by simply force shut down by holding the power button too.

Well, I think that's pretty much it for what I could say about this topic that literally explains about certain errors and blue screen of deaths on all of my laptops that I ever owned, ranging from my very first one till all the way into my current one that I'm using right now. Pay full attention if you want to optimize your computer(s) or laptop(s) properly, if you don't want any of these problems that I clearly listed here will happen in yours too at one day or sooner... Anyway, that's it from what I summed up about this topic that explains about them both cause I literally lost my words (or sentences) and ideas about whatever else that I will tell you next, and as always, thanks for reading this post.

My fellow friend's HACKED YouTube channels...

As what I stated on my previous post about one of my famous fellow fan enthusiasts that was once existed, then in this year he just simply gave up by deleting all of his own social medias, including YouTube. I also mentioned another fellow enthusiast who lived in the same location as that particular enthusiast that is now gone, then his YouTube channel suddenly got hacked. Speaking about that, I encountered another one by another fellow fan enthusiasts that got hacked by another hacker from the past as well... So, it's time for me to explain about two of the aforementioned stories from them both about how both of their own channels literally got hacked, yet one of them is still present until today.

a. Braindead idiot with "sus" contents...

"I was like "WTF" when I saw this occasion for first time seeing your YouTube channel gets hacked..."-Me commenting to his own Instagram account who owns his channel...

Example of my friend's YouTube channel of fans that got suddenly hacked from then... Credits belong to the legitimate owner of his channel, obviously...

Back in 2019, I got a bad news from one of my fellow fan enthusiast legends with his own famous YouTube channel that has more than 10K subscribers. His channel suddenly got hacked by a braindead idiot from Vietnam (?) with all of those inappropriate contents that caused his channel looked so inappropriate as well.  From my own perspective, there was nothing wrong with his channel due to I did watch some of his fan and air conditioner videos, sometimes. Everything about his channel was alright since I subscribed him from somewhere in 2013, until in September of 2019, his channel suddenly got hacked by some random braindead idiot from Vietnam (?) with all of his nonsense, inappropriate contents... That braindead idiot literally uploaded those inappropriate "sus" contents that made me and certain other fellow fan enthusiasts felt super "sus" about why. Sure, he uploaded bunch of those "sus" contents, then eventually, his whole channel suddenly got terminated! Not from his actual side (which was obviously), but rather from the other side by all of the sudden! So, he decided to report it on YouTube's community group by creating his own thread in there, in order to restore his whole channel back. Even though it took ages to recover his whole channel, at least he did manage to restore his whole channel back like it should be! Well, I'm glad if I still able to watch his own contents until today, even though one of the fan enthusiasts said to him if his channel got hacked twice, but I obviously didn't remember the first one about how his channel got hacked too in it's days... Probably the same just almost like how it got hacked in 2019? I obviously still don't know about that at all.

b. Crypto currency crap...

Again, as what I clearly stated in my previous post about one of our post about one of my famous fellow fan enthusiasts that was once existed, then in this year he just simply gave up by deleting all of his own social medias, including YouTube. I also mentioned another fellow enthusiast who lived in the same location as that particular enthusiast that is now gone, then his YouTube channel suddenly got hacked... His channel got hacked to bits by one of those crypto currency hacker, anonymous culprits, by deleting ALL of his own ordinary videos of electric fans and air conditioners, then changing the name of the channel from his own name to one of those crypto currencies. From what I could really tell into it, those hackers just hacked like so for "mining" it for the NFT, and I ever caught if those particular hackers who hacked one of our particular fan enthusiasts uploaded something that was being set to live streaming about it... Again and again, even though that particular channel that used to be owned by one of our particular fan enthusiasts is still present until today, but those particular hackers just simply left it as of nowadays, leaving with just nothing but an empty channel nicknamed of that one particular crypto currency... Moreover, almost all of my fellow fan friends (excluding me) just didn't know if his channel just got hacked recently like so, yet the original owner of the channel just didn't take an obvious action to restore it back.

Well, there you have it for my two short stories of my fellow friend's YouTube channels that got hacked, even though one of them got solved by it's original owner. As always, pay FULL attention relating to this post... Seriously, it's because imagine if somehow those "sus" people out there from nowhere will hack your YouTube channels (including mine), no matter how super secure your Google accounts are. Those "sus" people always doing their own s***  by cracking down their victim's security breaches, or on the worst cases, they also doing certain stupid, absolute d***** s*** as well that supposed to be a part of the cyber crime... Even though the moral of the story that I made here wasn't the best one that I told to you for, but then again, pay FULL attention relating to this post by do some obvious tasks on your own Google accounts to make it even more safer from those "sus" people out there. I think that pretty much sums up about this crucial post about this particular topic that explains about this sudden bad stuffs that occurred on two of my fellow online friends against those two aforementioned "sus" people behind both of them, and thanks for reading this post.

My online items that were simply lost... 😞

Okay, so... I will tell you something different on this post. It's related to few online items from various online medias (such as marketplace or social medias) that I ordered through the years until today. In case if you don't understand about what kind of the title of this post is, it's basically if I ordered an item from aforementioned online medias, then I paid few bucks for it. Unfortunately though, either they cancelled it or there was a hideous scam behind it, those items just simply lost like nothing... I encountered at least 2 of the items that were lost for those reasons that I mentioned earlier. Without any ado with them, let's take a throwback to those items that I ordered, but those items were just simply didn't ship like nothing after I paid few bucks for it.

• First, one of the good old Plants vs. Zombies K'NEX building sets that I ordered from one of local online shops, as shown in this review video right on the top here. They claimed if they sold it from somewhere in Korea (rather than the US or Canada, because that online shop wasn't the one which connects to the e-Bay), then I paid for roughly IDR 500.000 for it... And then, after at least 2 days of me waiting for it, suddenly the online shop cancelled the process of me ordering it for unknown reasons. I was really upset about that, so I had to refund all of my money back. After all of that occurred, one of my family's relative reported this problem to the online shop's customer service in order to troubleshoot that problem via phone call. Which means, they finally got rid of all of those fictitious products out there.
• Secondly, which was one of the most common occurrence that occurs by somebody in my country, which was buying an expensive device for a VERY cheap price... But that, was an utter F****** SCAM! Recently, I ordered a very fancy Apple product from one of those counterfeit Instagram scam online shop accounts. I asked to one of those bastardized scammers who own one of those aforementioned online shops via a social media. I wasn't aware at the start during I had a conversation between me and that bastard, until I only paid IDR 500.000 for it plus shipping price to one of those hideous bank accounts that they had. After waiting for me ordering it, I got a message from that bastard if I had to call another bastard in order to resume the process of me buying that "goner" fancy product. During that occurred, I simply didn't call him, until I realized if I already lost some money to that bastard just for nothing, judging by the chat between me and that bastard was blocked by themselves. I didn't even report this crime to the local cops, it's because my parents were triggering me already for doing so. After I officially realized if I was being a victim for one of those scams few weeks later, I learned the lesson in order NOT for doing that s*** again.

In relation to the second one, I already tell the reason about why that occurred. Here are few traits and examples to those scam online shops, right here:

• Usually appears outside any official online marketplaces, such as social medias like Instagram, being the prime example about why they appear so often there.
• The pictures that they use to scam everybody is basically all stolen from somebody else. Between each of the accounts, majority of the pictures that they stole are basically the same, especially for the ones with white brickwork background behind those products themselves that they stole.
• Comment sections are usually disabled or limited on those counterfeit online shops.
• F.A.F. testimonials that they put on Instagram highlights.
• Uses somebody's bank accounts rather than the official way to pay any fund to them. Since there are lot of people who reported those bank accounts, those scammers keep changing their bank accounts into another one to continue their s*** overtime to even more random victims, including me.
• They claimed if majority of those products that they "sells" are black-market, which means... Yes, another F.A.F. claims! Which means, they actually want to redempt every victims by doing so over and over with such a nonsense amount of fund until they realized if they lost their money because of this F.A.F. claims that they ridiculously doing so overtime.
• All of those nonsense reasons about why the items that they deliver to those victims aren't delivered as soon as possible, is yet again... another F.A.F. claims that they actually do, in order to get every single victim's money in order to do their s***. 

F.A.F. : "Fake as F***!"😠-ElectroBOOM

There you have it for my 2 stories about why those two online items that were simply lost. From what I conclude to both of those stories about why these occurred, the first one was due to the product itself was actually fictitious but they didn't even tell me about why they cancelled my order to it until I took my full refund back... For the second one, it was obviously a crime. Simple as that... Especially for these days while the pandemic is still going strong, those scammers are literally everywhere on those social medias, being the Instagram is the prime example for that by stealing every victim's money online. Anyway, hope you can pay full attention to this post (especially for the second one is obviously shameful), and thanks for reading this post.

Bad experience with my "new" (old) Dell laptop...

Okay, so... This was occurred since I decided to replace my old Samsung laptop with it. Unfortunately though, it has it's own flaws, and now it already has it's own issue that I couldn't even bother to fix it at all. I already sent it to the service place in order to fix it, but nope! Everything gone wrong with this laptop that I bought it online, especially for one of the vital parts that it should work just fine like my old Samsung does... So, without further ado with them, let's explain about why I've just embarrassed by this laptop that I bought it online.

1. General

In case you've wondering about the brand and the model of the particular laptop that I bought it online, it's just an old Dell Latitude E4310...  I bought it online from one of the local online shops, and I paid around 200 bucks for it. It has the earliest version of Windows 10 Pro (2015),  it has 13,3" screen size, and it has Intel Core i5 M560 processor... It also has 8 GB of RAM, and not much I can say about it. Speaking about the story about why I bought this laptop, it's because I thought I was impressed by how much the RAM that this laptop has, so which meant it would run better than my old Samsung laptop. There is also another reason about why I bought this, it's because my old Samsung laptop wouldn't do heavy things very well, especially for editing videos... Again, not much I can say about this particular laptop though, until there are few flaws that I discovered already in this laptop throughout many hours of me using it until one big problem happens to it.

2. Results

Well, what do you know... I thought this laptop would run better than my old Samsung laptop because it has a bigger RAM, but no! Apart from how old this laptop is (which was dated in 2012), there are few surprising results from this laptop. Here are my results of me using it (in terms of bunch of the software programs that I ran on this laptop's system operating itself), from the normal results until the bad results.

• Web browsing on it is just fine to me. I can open the Google Chrome slightly quicker than my old Samsung laptop.
• File exploring on it is also just fine, not much I can say about it.
• Playing games on it isn't that great (I tested the original Plants vs. Zombies on it)... I have to download ThrottleStop in order to stop the throttles and stutters while I'm playing any games on it.
• Google Earth on it seems to work just decently. Not good, but not bad either.
• I also once installed BlueStacks on it, and it does open the app just decently. Even if I didn't even play any Android games on it.
• Adobe Photoshop (newer version) on it does work just reasonably fine.
• Adobe Premiere Pro (CC 2015), it does work but of course it has some problems while I edit videos on it every time... One of the examples is being the audio hardware interface keeps overloading at the most of the time; every time I play the edited footage on it and that message appears quite often on the events window, so I have to increase the latency in order to solve it, but nope, it doesn't work. Even the other options that I tweaked on it's own settings, but then again, nope!
• Many more of the random programs (or apps), that I couldn't even tell about how well  they run on this laptop since I never run them nor I run them quite often... Either they do work properly, but also they don't seem to work (usually it has usual "... [program] has stopped working" message)...

3. Flaws

It's hard to believe if this laptop has it's own flaws as well... I thought I was like, "This old laptop would work as good as the ones in my current school would be. Although the ones in my current school are completely different models, unlike this one"... Well, yeah, but since there are flaws that keeps bothering me while operating it, so... Not much additional action that I will take to them because I always sick by them, so... Anyway, here are the flaws that this laptop has, right now:

• First, utterly crap battery life. I already suspected about how crap the battery life of this laptop is... For example, the battery's percentage was on 82%, but then immediately went down drastically by itself into 0% within a second. Before it got emptied like that, the battery somehow only lasted less than least 30 minutes...
• It only has one USB port.
• Annoying "date and time resetting"... This always occurs while the laptop itself isn't powered by either battery or the plug adapter, probably due to it doesn't have it's own built-in backup battery-ish thing like my old Samsung laptop does... It keeps resetting the date and time itself back in 2012. All I have to do against this problem is of course, I have manually set the current date and time in the BIOS settings itself... Freaking all the time when this happens!
• Almost every time I turned it on from either hibernate or sleep, the display graphics driver just stopped working, but it does recover immediately by itself.
• There's a little static electricity somewhere on the laptop itself, even I plugged one of the earphones into this laptop does have little static electricity as well. This always happens, especially when I plug it with a plug outlet all the time.
• No 4 rubber feets on the bottom on the laptop itself, since I bought it used from online shop.
• Some obscure stuffs are still present on this laptop... One example is being the obscure tray with an "EC" logo near it, don't know what does it mean. Another example is being the other obscure tray hole with a "SC" logo near it too. External sound card? If yes, no wonder why it doesn't sound good, yet it's a bit silent (in my opinion).
• Since this is one of the old laptops, it will overheat quite badly if I use it too much, especially certain examples like exporting a whole video sequence from Adobe Premiere Pro, the centrifugal fan inside it runs so fast, yet it'll feel so hot around one on the sides on this laptop. I even poured a pinch of water on the part where it overheats, and it got boiled and dried just less than 30 seconds.
• The speakers on it sounds not too loud, yet it only has standard HD Audio sound card from Windows itself... However, if I installed Equalizer APO on it, it does amplify the volume of it just like my old Samsung laptop (which obviously has dedicated Realtek HD Audio sound card, yet it also has SoundAlive feature too)... However, if I increase it even more on the aforementioned equalizer program itself, sometimes it overloads, especially for anything that sounds way too much bass... Even Adobe Premiere Pro that I installed on it says the audio hardware interface overload, I'm not sure if that always happens due to that, even I already seen that warning bunch of times just before I installed the Equalizer APO on it... Probably the very poor GPU that it has in order not to make it work properly? Presumably yes.

4. When the LCD screen's backlight dies... (and conclusion + extras)

Apparently, in it's peak day about when this laptop's LCD screen's backlight got stopped working, it used to work just fine like it should before that occurred... Although it used to work just fine, of course the flaws of this laptop were still present...... Until it's own LCD screen's backlight died... Yes, literally... It's own LCD screen's backlight gone wrong for some reason, it's just simply doesn't light up anymore. I could see anything on the screen with the flashlight that lights into the screen, but still, I can't have that... I already tweaked about the brightness of the laptop's LCD screen's backlight itself, even on the BIOS too, but nope! Still doesn't work! So which means, there you have it for this "new" (old) Dell laptop that I bought it online. For the additional action that I did to the laptop itself, here are two actions that I did to it:

• I already brought it to the service center, closest from my old neighborhood. I asked some person in order to replace the LCD screen's backlight. Since it's one of the rarest size and models yet I would pay around 107 bucks for it, they didn't repair it due to there's no particular screen available for it's own size and model. Even they were already contacted the supplier who sells laptop's spare LCD screens, but then again, nope.
• I also asked to the online seller who sells bunch of those laptops... The only thing that he can do with this laptop is of course I have to send it to him in order to repair it yet I would only pay 32 bucks for it, not selling it away to him... But, I still bothered by how guilty I did to this laptop, because I thought this laptop would work properly like what my current school has few of those laptops of the exact same brand (but different models though), but nope! It's just gone wrong by this LCD screen issue that got struck into it.

So yeah, there you have it for my experience with this "new" (old) Dell laptop that I bought online... Yeah, as if... Again, I thought this laptop would work properly like what my current school has few of those laptops of the exact same brand, but then again, nope! It's just gone wrong, and I felt so guilty about it... Right now, I simply left it without any usage at all, until I have to salvage the important parts that are left on it, such as RAM and the HDD that comes with it, so I hope I can transfer those parts into my old Samsung laptop... Speaking about my old Samsung laptop in it's current condition, I also tell about it's own current flaws as well, aside from one of it's own LCD screen's hinge got busted already. Those are:

• It doesn't seem to charge it's own battery anymore. So which means, I completely force to use AC adapter in order to make it work properly.
• It's still has old Windows 7 operating system, but it does work just fairly well since I activated it using third-party program that I did around 7 years ago, instead of activating it in the usual way using the product key.
• Both of it's own internal speakers are busted already.
• Since it only has 2 GB of RAM and weaker processor, it does have a lag while I'm doing certain multitasking stuffs. Unless I have to install certain programs in order to make it slightly better (such as CCleaner, ThrottleStop, and an old program entitled MZ RAM Booster). Obviously, no way for doing heavy stuffs, such as editing videos. It'll lag very badly if I do that, especially for playing the edited video on it. Or even on the worse cases, it'll stop the whole program entirely, yet there's no auto-save of it.

And yeah, that's what I can conclude about my bad experience with my "new" (old) Dell laptop, yet I already listed about some flaws of my old Samsung laptop as well. That's it for what I can say about this bad experience that I did to it, and hope you can pay the attention, yet you can learn the lesson about this experience that I did to it.

My school task: Technology & Information (Computer & Internet)

Okay, so. This time, I'll write about something that looks completely different on this post... No, it's not usual things that I always enjoy like electric fans or toys like several posts that I made earlier. Instead, I'll write 2 articles about Technology & Information in this post, it's because one of my teachers in my current school requested me to make this as an important school task. Without further ado with them, here are my 2 articles about them right away.

Article 1: Computer

What are computers?

Computers are machines that perform tasks or calculations according to a set of instructions, or programs. The first fully electronic computers, introduced in the 1940s, were huge machines that required teams of people to operate. Compared to those early machines, today's computers are amazing. Not only are they thousands of times faster, they can fit on your desk, on your lap, or even in your pocket. Computers work through an interaction of hardware and software. Hardware refers to the parts of a computer that you can see and touch, including the case and everything inside it. The most important piece of hardware is a tiny rectangular chip inside your computer called the central processing unit (CPU), or microprocessor. It's the "brain" of your computer-the part that translates instructions and performs calculations. Hardware items such as your monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and other components are often called hardware devices, or devices. Software refers to the instructions, or programs, that tell the hardware what to do. A word-processing program that you can use to write letters on your computer is a type of software. The operating system is software that manages your computer and the devices connected to it. 

Types of computers

Computers range in size and capability. At one end of the scale are supercomputers, very large computers with thousands of linked microprocessors that perform extremely complex calculations. At the other end are tiny computers embedded in cars, TVs, stereo systems, calculators, and appliances. These computers are built to perform a limited number of tasks. The personal computer, or PC, is designed to be used by one person at a time. This section describes the various kinds of personal computers: desktops, laptops, handheld computers, and Tablet PCs.

• Desktop computers : Desktop computers are designed for use at a desk or table. They are typically larger and more powerful than other types of personal computers. Desktop computers are made up of separate components. The main component, called the system unit, is usually a rectangular case that sits on or underneath a desk. Other components, such as the monitor, mouse, and keyboard, connect to the system unit.
• Laptop computers : Laptop computers are lightweight mobile PCs with a thin screen. Laptops can operate on batteries, so you can take them anywhere. Unlike desktops, laptops combine the CPU, screen, and keyboard in a single case. The screen folds down onto the keyboard when not in use.
• Smartphones : Smartphones are mobile phones that have some of the same capabilites as a computer. You can use a smartphone to make telephone calls, access the Internet, organize contact information, send e‑mail and text messages, play games, and take pictures. Smartphones usually have a keyboard and a large screen.
• Handheld computers : Handheld computers, also called personal digital assistants (PDAs), are battery-powered computers small enough to carry almost anywhere. Although not as powerful as desktops or laptops, handheld computers are useful for scheduling appointments, storing addresses and phone numbers, and playing games. Some have more advanced capabilities, such as making telephone calls or accessing the Internet. Instead of keyboards, handheld computers have touch screens that you use with your finger or a stylus (a pen-shaped pointing tool).
• Tablet PCs : Tablet PCs are mobile PCs that combine features of laptops and handheld computers. Like laptops, they're powerful and have a built-in screen. Like handheld computers, they allow you to write notes or draw pictures on the screen, usually with a tablet pen instead of a stylus. They can also convert your handwriting into typed text. Some Tablet PCs are “convertibles” with a screen that swivels and unfolds to reveal a keyboard underneath.

Parts of a computer

• System Unit (CPU) : The system unit is the core of a computer system. Usually it's a rectangular box placed on or underneath your desk. Inside this box are many electronic components that process information. The most important of these components is the central processing unit (CPU), or microprocessor, which acts as the "brain" of your computer. Another component is random access memory (RAM), which temporarily stores information that the CPU uses while the computer is on. The information stored in RAM is erased when the computer is turned off.
• Hard disk drive : Your computer's hard disk drive stores information on a hard disk; a rigid platter or stack of platters with a magnetic surface. Because hard disks can hold massive amounts of information, they usually serve as your computer's primary means of storage, holding almost all of your programs and files. The hard disk drive is normally located inside the system unit.
• CD and DVD drives : Nearly all computers today come equipped with a CD or DVD drive, usually located on the front of the system unit. CD drives use lasers to read (retrieve) data from a CD; many CD drives can also write (record) data onto CDs. If you have a recordable disk drive, you can store copies of your files on blank CDs. You can also use a CD drive to play music CDs on your computer. DVD drives can do everything that CD drives can, plus read DVDs. If you have a DVD drive, you can watch movies on your computer. Many DVD drives can record data onto blank DVDs.
• Floppy disk drive : Floppy disk drives store information on floppy disks, also called floppies or diskettes. Compared to CDs and DVDs, floppy disks can store only a small amount of data. They also retrieve information more slowly and are more prone to damage. For these reasons, floppy disk drives are less popular than they used to be, although some computers still include them.
• Mouse : A mouse is a small device used to point to and select items on your computer screen. Although mice come in many shapes, the typical mouse does look a bit like an actual mouse. It's small, oblong, and connected to the system unit by a long wire that resembles a tail. Some newer mice are wireless.
• Keyboard : A keyboard is used mainly for typing text into your computer. Like the keyboard on a typewriter, it has keys for letters and numbers, but it also has special keys, such as the function keys (perform different functions depending on where they are used), numeric keys (allows you to enter numbers quickly), and the navigation keys (allow you to move your position within a document or webpage).
• Monitor : A monitor displays information in visual form, using text and graphics. The portion of the monitor that displays the information is called the screen. Like a television screen, a computer screen can show still or moving pictures.
• Printer : A printer transfers data from a computer onto paper. You don't need a printer to use your computer, but having one allows you to print e‑mail, cards, invitations, announcements, and other material. Many people also like being able to print their own photos at home.
• Speakers : Speakers are used to play sound. They can be built into the system unit or connected with cables. Speakers allow you to listen to music and hear sound effects from your computer.
• Modem : A modem is a device that sends and receives computer information over a telephone line or high-speed cable. Modems are sometimes built into the system unit, but higher-speed modems are usually separate components.

History

Introduced in 1946, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was built for the United States military to calculate the paths of artillery shells. Physically, ENIAC was enormous, weighing more than 27,000 kilograms (60,000 pounds) and filling a large room. To process data, ENIAC used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, each the size of a small light bulb. The tubes burned out easily and had to be constantly replaced.