The failure of me "fixing" the faulty Redmi 5 Plus 📱...

As you may know, I actually keep this particular old 2018 Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus 📱 (3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal eMMC storage), which specifically has it's own strange problem where it only blinks it's own white LED notification indicator light every single time I plug it into the power outlet using any 📱 chargers. Even if I actually know about the actual problem itself judging by how both of my parents told me if I recklessly bring it to any 📱 service center around my hometown (including that one repairman that I know since my childhood, because he was one of my neighborhoods of my childhood 🏠), that will cost similarly to purchasing a brand new modern day Android device. In the meantime though, I ever attempted to "fix" it by myself specifically using my 💻 with two of those separate programs, which those were Mi Flash Tool and QFIL, but of course they both ended up failing for obvious reasons that I couldn't able to do them by my hands.

Before I explained about my failure of me "fixing" it, let me tell you about the background story about the entire device itself. Back in those days, my mom purchased this particular 📱 in order to replace her old white Oppo Neo 7. This was her daily driver device that lasted about 3 years, until she decided to replace it's job with Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro. Upon she replaced it with the Redmi Note 9 Pro, she gave it to my dad by replacing his old black Oppo Neo 7. It was lasted for 2 years until the aforementioned problem itself suddenly occurred on him. After the said problem itself occurred, my mom immediately gave her Redmi Note 9 Pro to him, and replaced it with her current Oppo A77s (?). Since then, the Redmi 5 Plus itself remains in that exact state, even if I ever tried to bring it to service center for multiple times, but the repairman always refused me to do so for that exact reason that I mentioned earlier.

Now, as for the way how I tried to "fix" it by simply connecting it to my 💻, I had to ensure if the device itself must be detected as "Qualcomm HS‑USB QDLoader 9008 (COMnn)" instead of "QUSB_BULK" on my Windows 💻's Device Manager, specifically on "Ports (COM & LPT)" section. After I did several tricky steps in order to connect it properly to my 💻 (including the way how I installed the correct Qualcomm driver on my 💻), I attempted to "resurrect" it with two of those programs that I originally meant to do so, which those were Mi Flash Tool and QFIL, respectively. Even if I also downloaded the correct official stock Global Stable Fastboot ROM itself, unfortunately they both simply failed after several seconds right after I clicked the "Clean all" button on Mi Flash Tool or "Download" button on QFIL. They both failed due to their respective reasons, which those were Mi Flash Tool's timeout error and QFIL's Sahara fail... Either because of my USB cables were underpowered or other causes that are related to it, I obviously have no clue for troubleshooting it specifically on my own, even if I actually know about the way how the entire device itself suddenly got that exact problem since then. 

Well then, there's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it still remains limbo after all these years. I feel like I want to actually fix it, but since I already discovered those issues on both of those programs that are installed on my 💻 which meant to do so, I doubt if I can try that again later for sure. If you have one (or some) of your Android devices which has one of those problems, feel free to share your own story particularly in the comments section if your memory serves it right. Anyway, that's particularly it for what I could say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

My weird experience with remote socket fan + LED light things...

Being an electric fan enthusiast since more than a decade ago, I'm recently interested by those of the popular remote socket fan + LED light things that are currently available nowadays, mostly on certain online marketplaces that are available overseas, including our country. Ranging from those of the ring light ones, until all the way to those ones that roughly resembled those of the average mini ceiling fans. Without further ado, let me share my own experience about those of my mini socket fan + LED light things (which I actually got 2 of them in my collection, for now).

Before I begin, you may recognize about how come if any of those mini socket fan + LED light things are now exist everywhere? Well, this kind of trend is actually existed since few decades ago, although those ones that were existed back in those good old days were the ones with just the fans themselves, albeit they were insanely rare to come by... However, somewhere in 2022, specifically in the US, this kind of trend went increasingly popular thanks to those predecessors of the socket fan + LED lights themselves that were existed there (for this case, it was that Bell + Howell/Emson brand), which they initially released them with their own first version (the ones with 4 straight blades with the light on the center part of it, and the color of it is white [but then they also released even more versions besides that one, such as the black version of it, and that one "ring light" version which also comes with it's own RGB light]). This also led to how any of those random cheap Chinese manufacturers also produced their own versions in WAY much higher quantity, which those are the ones that are now exists overseas. So, those versions of themselves are:

• Simple "ring light" with the fan on the center part of it (which comes with different variants per each of them [such as different colors and motifs of fan grill cages themselves, different wattages between each of themselves, and etc.),
• Those ones which roughly resembles those of the simple "ring light" ones, except with the weird mini "orbit fan" on the center part of it,
• 4 straight bladed version (33 cm/13"),
• 6 petal bladed versions (both 42 cm/~16" and 52 cm/~20" versions, including those with their own light sockets under themselves instead of their own built-in white LED lights which they originally come with them),
• 5 straight or petal bladed versions (62 cm/~24", or sometimes 42 cm/16" [?]),
• Those of the "drone" fans (which comes with either 3 or 4 fans),
• Those ones with retractable blades that resembled those of the actual full-size "Fanaway" ceiling fans, and
• Many more of the obscure designs of themselves...

As of those ones in my collection, I only own 2 of them so far, which both of those are:

• PPlus (simple "ring light" with white fan grill cages, 3 blade, 50 WATTS), and
• Kawachi (4 straight bladed version [33 cm/13"], white-blue version, 14 watts [7 watts for both fan and light themselves, respectively])

PPlus

Kawachi

Then, as of my own experience of me using either one of the two, there's not much else that I could particularly say about it apart from the fact they both seem to work just properly and blow reasonably good amount of air delivery as what I expected on their own (depending on where I installed them both, otherwise they would only generate less amount of air delivery compared to regular electric fans in general), although each of them both do have their own respective flaws while they're operating. So, those flaws are:

• They sometimes produce some constant sparks while it's operating (especially when I tried to install them on certain light sockets). They also doing so every single time right after I turn them on by simply flicking the light switch...... Oh, on the worst cases, they will outright shorting the MCB if they're out of control (which causing the MCB itself to be popped or broken). This exact problem usually occurs somewhat frequently, particularly on certain ones with ludicrously higher amount of wattage (precisely for those that consumes 50 WATTS or above).
• When both fan and LED light themselves are on, the LED lights themselves sometimes flickers slightly.
• They always produce weird high frequency sounds from their own DC motors every single time while it start-ups regardless of the speed that I'm choosing to. This doesn't apply to those of the "ring light" versions, although they also produce weird sounds from their own DC motors while they're operating, albeit with completely different way and much more quieter than those of the non "ring light" ones that I've mentioned just earlier.
• Certain ones with ludicrously higher amount of wattage may cause some weird interaction with certain electronic devices (for example, few of my own digital TV's stations that is broadcasting at the moment just gets stunned severely every single time I turn them on [which resulting them in "no signal" state], until I have to turn them off to fix them).
• Most models tend to have much heavier weight, especially for many of those that aren't simple "ring light" ones. Which means, in case if you want one of those, you must prepare at least one strong installation of your own ceiling light socket in order to prevent any of those obvious accidents while it's operating there.

Despite several of those flaws that they have, that still doesn't stop me to get even more of those, although I still don't have enough budget for purchasing another one of those soon. Anyway, if you have your own experience for using one of those remote socket fan + LED light things, feel free to share your own short stories in the comment section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say about it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

Archive: Quick experience with my Asus ZenPad C Android tablet (2016)

You probably recognize if I actually used to have yet another Android tablet besides both of those old Advan ones that I mentioned in some of my older posts that featured them? Obviously no, thanks to that one nearly 9 year old Blogspot article that explained about it and those of the other two aforementioned tablets that I made from 2016 (though I accidently deleted all of those pictures of themselves, leaving them with just "❗" marks), which coincidently also the same year where I purchased this particular tablet. Without further ado, let me tell my own quick story about the aforementioned device itself right away... (yes, "quick" because why not)

A. Purchasing the device itself...

Believe or not, I purchased this particular tablet because I used to look at one of those popular physical catalogs that featured the review of it before, simple as that. Although I noticed some weaknesses that this thing delivered according to how they initially reviewed it in there, but that didn't stop me for purchasing it from one of the local cell phone stores in my hometown, which costed around IDR 2.000.000 (which means it was my most expensive tablet that I ever purchased among all of them).

B. Specifications...❓

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the full specifications for this particular tablet. However, I still remembered the model number of it, which was P01Y, and it originally ran on Android 5.0. The amount of RAM was probably similar to what my old Zenfone 5 had, but I'm not 💯% sure. Also, just like many average Android devices that they were available on sale in those times (or even today), it had two SIM card slots and a single microSD card slot, respectively... As of the other stuffs that originally came with it from it's own box, it came with it's own microUSB cable, adapter, instructions, and the 1-year warranty card.

C. The experience of it, but...

There's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it performed almost identically to what my old Asus Zenfone 5 would do when it comes to basic stuffs in general (including game tests, albeit it was much less amount of time), except it's own internal storage space was 4 GB lower than that of my old Zenfone 5. Which means, if I put too much files or apps on it, it eventually led into that dreaded insufficient storage space notification. There were no absolute option apart from the fact I must uninstall bunch of apps that I didn't need in there (including some of those bloatware ones). Unfortunately though, I was unable to uninstall them because I'd only able to disable them natively by myself instead of doing so straight away (unless if I had a knowledge to access some third-party apps or certain methods in order to do so).

As for the camera itself, the quality of it was roughly similar to my old Zenfone 5, with an exception of how this one simply didn't have the autofocus on it's own single rear camera... The picture quality of it was mildly mediocre, and so for it's own video recording too (which was somewhat lower volume but noisier sounds compared to my old Zenfone 5). Even if this particular tablet had THAT exact amount of internal storage space, at least I was able to save my saved pictures and saved videos separately on my own microSD card that I used to equip in there (coincidently, the microSD card that I used to equip in there is the same one that I'm currently using on my Asus 📱 that I'm heavily using it right now since 2019, which I also used it initially on one of my old Advan tablets too since I purchased that particular microSD card from then).📷📹

(this was taken when it crashed right after i unlocked it from it's own lock screen...)

Apart from that major insufficient storage space issues that I mentioned just earlier, it also had another issue where I tried to unlock it right from the lock screen, it immediately crashed the entire operating system then rebooted straight after by itself for some odd reasons. This occurred numerous times, and it eventually fixed by itself for unknown reasons that I had no clue about how come it initially occurred just before... With the weird state that it specifically had, I only used it for several months by myself until I decided to give it away to my cousin in the same year where I purchased it instead of selling it to someone for mildly steal price like what I did with my old Samsung Galaxy Y (or on the worst cases similarly to what I did to one of those Advans, smashing it), but he probably didn't satisfy by how it performed which caused he ended up purchasing his own better Android device later on (though he also used to have his old Evercoss tablet that performed similarly to one of my old Advan tablets).

Since then, I had no clue whether if he still keep it or not, due to the fact I no longer noticed the aforementioned tablet itself anymore after few months later... Well then, that concludes about my short archive story particularly about this Android tablet that I used to own there for several months within that year. With plenty of those flaws that it specifically had, I doubt it if I can purchase another Android tablet again, since most of those modern day Android devices will perform much better than one of those. Although there are some modern day Android tablets out there, but I absolutely have no clue about which one that I want to purchase in case if I need it...... Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about it soon.

imagine if i would keep my very first 💻...❔

This is rather short article that I made here, but imagine if I'd actually doing so instead of owning my current one that I'm using it nowadays? Well, if you may recognize this in few of my older articles that I made from a while ago, you might recognize that old Acer Aspire 4741Z laptop that I used to own since somewhere in 2009 until roughly 4 years later. That laptop had some error where it always went to BSOD all the time, yet the BSOD itself lasted about few seconds until it automatically restarted again by itself until I forced to turn it off. Although I used to bring it multiple times in the large electronic store where I purchased this back in the day, but in the meantime where I encountered that exact error itself, instead of fixing it due to the condition of the aforementioned laptop itself was okay, I stupidly exchanged it with the 2013 Samsung (which I realized if the Samsung had somewhat lower build quality compared to that aforementioned Acer or other brands [including the one that I'm using right now, which is the Lenovo], TBH).💻

(this screenshot has nothing to do with the 💻 that I'm talking about)

Even though I still recognized that exact time where I exchanged it with that crappy Samsung, but imagine if I would keeping it instead of that particular option that I actually did it back then? Well, the answer of it would be obvious, by upgrading some crucial components inside, specifically for storage, RAM, and processor... First off, for the storage itself, that laptop originally had 320 GB of HDD (if I guessed that right). I'd upgrade it with (at least) 128 GB of SATA SSD for the operating system storage, and I'd also reuse it's own original HDD that came with it by replacing the obsolete DVD-RW drive using the HDD itself by installing the aforementioned hard drive itself on a caddy... Then, for the RAM that came with it, it originally had a single 1 GB of DDR3 RAM stick (if I guessed that right too), I'd upgrade it by purchasing pair of brand new 4 GB of DDR3 RAM sticks... Lastly, for the processor itself, it originally had Intel Pentium P6000 (❔). I had no clue about the replacement processor that would work with the entire laptop itself though... As for the random miscellaneous components like the LCD screen, battery, and CMOS battery, I also had no clue if either one of them would be replaced since last time I used it back in those days, they were all in fairly good condition per each of them (though the original battery itself didn't last for at least an hour though, from what I remembered back in those days).💻

Well then, there you have it for my short story that literally explained about it in general. Even though that laptop may seem obsolete on it's own, but that laptop would also have it's own potential if I would keeping it with all of those upgraded components equipped, unless if my budget would enough for doing so, otherwise that would cost averagely similar to the one that I'm using nowadays... If you have your own thoughts regarding to this exact topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right (if you used to have at least one of them in your own). That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.💻

my childhood TECH devices...☎🕹📻📺🧮

As what this particular article's title literally said, I'm gonna share my own childhood memories particularly about random old school tech devices that I ever used back in those good old days since I was born. Those tech devices that I'm talking specifically about were mainly those of the old school feature phones, and certain other old school devices (such as those of the old game consoles, those analog cameras, and so on). So, without further ado, let me explain about each of the random devices that I ever used back then, ranging from the simple ones until to the most advanced one that I ever dealt.

a. Basic feature phones with monochrome screens...

Started off with some of those aforementioned mobile phones. "Pretty sure if you used to have Nokia 3310, right?" Well (jokes aside), close enough, except for the model number. Not only just that Nokia, I also used to have that old Sony Ericsson phone with roughly exact same trait as that Nokia. Nothing particularly special about it since back in those days when I was a kid, apart from the fact I briefly hanging around with them, including how I was able to play simple games briefly on them too.

FYI, back in those days during I owned those old mobile phones, my uncle used to have that Siemens phone, which also had exact same traits as those of the said phones, except for the color of the backlight (which was orange instead of yellow).

b. Basic feature phones with color screens...

my old D-ONE phone (Chinese phone that was just a loose knockoff of Nokia E63)

After I experienced with those of the feature phones with monochrome screens, I decided to use any of these types of feature phones that I ever used, except they were in color. There were plenty of phones that I ever used that were fell on this particular category, so here are my list about what kinds of phones that I ever used, right away:

• Bunch of those basic phones without camera (mostly Nokia ones),
• Nokia 1nnn (couldn't remember the model number, and it had a camera [which you could only take pictures only]),
• Nokia 6630,
• Nokia X2, and
• D-ONE (Chinese phone that was just a loose knockoff of Nokia E63]

my old Nokia X2 (with mixed parts of it's own casing itself)

As for anything around my entire family, they also used to have their own feature phones that were fell on this particular category too. So, those phones were:

• Nokia 7250 (if I guessed the model number of this one right),
• Sony Ericsson K310i (if I guessed that right, and it only had 12 MB of internal storage),
• Sony Ericsson K350i (if I guessed the model number of this one right),
• Sony Ericsson K810i, and
• random Chinese feature phone that had touchscreen and analog TV

Now, how's your experience when it comes to dealing with those phones then? Well, here are the moments of how I experienced with each of them:

1. Every single time when an incoming SMS on that old Nokia 1nnn phone appeared, I sometimes threw it to the floor due to the fact I couldn't even stand with the ringtone itself. That phone survived just okay, even if the battery just popped off from the case sometimes.
2. I stupidly formatted the Nokia 6630's entire system bunch of times, especially when there were lots of saved data (of all kinds) stored in there. This was occurred due to the fact I opened the "Memory card" app, then I selected "Format" for no reason.
3. Some third-party apps that were installed on Nokia 6630 that were existed. I decided to open them, it turned out if they weren't installed yet, despite their existence on the menu screen.
4. Playing games on most of those phones were memorable (which majority of them were Java games, excluding those that were on basic phones without camera, which they always worked just well without any issues). However, there were bunch of games that weren't work properly in certain forms.

c. Old game consoles...🎮

Ah yes, old game consoles, except I only had 5 of them. Two of them were the bootleg consoles, and the rest were the original units. Those were:

• PlayStation 1 and 2,
• Certain cheap brick games and any of those "Pop Station" handheld games,
• Fake PlayStation 1 (Famiclone), and
• GameBoy Advance (the OG, not SP or Micro)

For the games that I ever played on each of those game consoles, here are lists of what kinds of games that I ever recognized the most (except for those that were from cheap brick games or those of the "Pop Station" handheld games):

• RC Helicopter (PlayStation 1),
• That airplane flight simulator that I couldn't remember the game's title of it (PlayStation 1),
• That BMX game that I couldn't remember the game's title of it (PlayStation 1),
• Eye Toy (PlayStation 2),
• Some random PlayStation 2 golf game,
• Mario Golf Advance Tour (GameBoy Advance, if I guessed the title of the game itself right),
• Spiderman (GameBoy Advance),
• The Incredibles (GameBoy Advance), and
• plethora of pirated NES games that I ever played on either that Famiclone (including their multicarts), or those of the pirated GameBoy Advance cartridges, or even that pirated Playstation 1 disc that contains themselves too.

d. Other old school devices...

As for the other old devices besides those that I already listed above, here are random old devices that I used to have back then (which one of them is still in use after all these decades):

• Old Sharp CRT TV that both of my grandparents from my mom's side purchased it back in the ~90s.📺
• Old VCD players and old boomboxes (yes, both of my parents still keep that vintage early 80s Sanyo boombox, and it's still works well after all these decades, except for the tape deck).📼
• Sony Walkman (purchased back in ~2008, couldn't remember the model number of it though, yet I even used to have a cheaper alternative of it before).🎧
• Some of my old analog cameras that I used to have, except I didn't even attempt to use them with their own film rolls. I remembered if my mom used to take some pictures of myself during I was in the kindergarten using one of those cameras.
• Some sort of scientific calculator that shaped like a mini laptop. It even had some games on it, such as Bingo, Tic Tac Toe, and typical snake game, respectively.

Well, there you have it for my childhood tech memories in general. "Wait, how about certain devices that were much more advanced than those, such as phones with touchscreens and computers or laptops?" For those devices, I already explained in several of my articles that I made somewhere in this entire Blogspot, so feel free to check them out if you still don't recognize yet, albeit not all of them that I explained though... If you have your own good memories when it comes to certain old school devices like so, feel free to share your own childhood story related to this article in the comments section if your memory still serves it okay. That's basically it for what I could say to this particular article, and as always, thanks for reading this specific article. 

Dealing with digital TV... around my area (ID) 📺

Are you still watching TV nowadays? If so, it's because I'm not only the one who constantly watch any kinds of TV programs after all these years since my childhood, even if you definitely have a better option to watch anything deeper than just TV like I do these days... However, I'm not talking about any kinds of TV programs from various TV stations that I usually watch since my childhood though. Instead, I'm gonna tell you about how come if our country's whole government finally decided to shut down the analog TV stations, then they decided to switch over into digital TV terrestrials, including around my area where I live. Without further ado, it's time to share my own story about my final days with analog TVs, until all the way to how our country's government finally decided to shut them down forever. 📺

A. Final times with analog TV...📺

Back in those good old days since my childhood, I obviously watched all kinds of TV programs from those TV channels casually using the analog TV from any of my old CRT TVs that I ever owned, even if I ever watched them briefly using those of cheapo Chinese modular feature phones with built-in antenna, which those weren't mine anyway. This was the only way to watch them, because that was the only reliable source to do so for roughly 2 decades since then. Even though it obviously didn't have a good picture, sound, and signal qualities, otherwise it would sometimes ended up in just "snowy" pictures (or even a plain blue screen), it didn't matter for me though to watch them without any kinds of problems, and this particular trait also applied to the analog FM radio with their respective radio stations around my hometown too.📺

Source : Pixabay

Those were the good old times of me watching all kinds of TV programs from various TV stations in general. Until somewhere in 2022, all TV stations around our country literally warned us in order to switch over from that old analog TV to digital TV terrestrials, including me. Even though the analog TV still existed back then, I just decided to buy one of those run-of-the-mill set top boxes from an electronic store, then I hooked it to my old small CRT TV by connecting the AV cable into it.📺

B. Dealing with it using my set top box and my old CRT TV...📺

Even if I already own that set top box, I actually used to have another set top box that used to exist roughly in 2017-2018, except it was provided by one of those famous internet service providers that also existed in my hometown. I ever experienced with it, and the result of it was mildly okay, depending on which TV stations that I watched. Yes, that set top box did have an option to connect it into my old house's Wi-Fi access point yet it had plenty of video streaming apps too, including YouTube. Sure, I would love to login both of my Google accounts on it, due to the fact it was connected to my old CRT TV, it was painfully difficult to read all of those texts, thus I just didn't bother to do it anyway... As for the main feature itself (which was the digital TV that came with it), it did work just okay, and it had it's own common problems where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" screen, despite it was clearly connected to one of my Wi-Fi access point's Ethernet ports (not coaxial cable). After I had some enjoyment with it, unfortunately I had to stop using it by returning it back to the provider themselves due to severe financial issues that occurred back in the day (along with the Wi-Fi access point that came with it), which means I had to watch all kinds of TV shows back using the old analog TV for next 4 years, and so for how I replaced that good access point with more s***** one later on.📺

Now, back to my run-of-the-mill set top box that I owned there, connected to my old small CRT TV. Yes, it worked just okay, but it also had the same problem where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" screen too. No matter if I ever tried to fix it by re-scanning the available TV stations that are broadcasting 24/7 around my area, or fixing the coaxial cable connection and the connector that connects into the unit itself, or even tweaking certain options in order to make it less occurring, those common problems are sometimes come back, which caused me to switch between digital TV terrestrials using it or just the classic analog TV. Unfortunately though, even if I also owned the loop-over connector that connects between my set top box and my old CRT TV, the analog TV was finally got shut down in the last year around my area exactly in the meantime I tested it, so that means no more of me watching them using analog TV forever indeed.📺

C. Dealing with it using my smart TV...📺

Box of my current flat screen smart TV that I own...

FYI, I recently purchased my own flat screen smart TV in order to install it in my current compact house, it's because that old small CRT TV would occupy some space and it would also draw more power that might trip my whole house's MCB. Instead of using both of it's own "legs" that came with it, I decided to install it on the wall using the bracket, in order to avoid all kinds of accidents of me using it in general. Yes, it does have roughly similar features just like that set top box, with an exception about how it has much more content compared to that. For example, it obviously have a built-in Wi-Fi adapter, yet it also has bunch of apps that comes with it, including certain online video streaming apps (YouTube, Prime Video, Vidio, WeTV, etc.). Watching all kinds of videos on YouTube on this is pretty much exactly as what I expected for, and I even logged in both of my own Google accounts on it just alright, as long as it still connects to my house's Wi-Fi access point 24/7.📺

Now, how about the main feature itself though? Well, the results when it comes to me watching digital TV from various TV stations are exactly in similar fashion to how I watched them before using my old CRT TV, equipped with that set top box. Yes, it still has it's own common problems where where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" or "invalid service" messages, even if I tried to fix it by re-scanning the available TV stations that are broadcasting 24/7 around my area. Unfortunately though, there is no specific option in order to make it way less occurring, apart from all of those basic options of the whole smart TV's settings itself. FYI, it also has 5 different sources to watch anything on it though, such as 2 different versions of digital TVs (both DVB-T2 and DVB-C [which the latter one still didn't have any at the moment]), analog TV (which obviously no longer existed anymore), AV, and 2 HDMI ports.📺

D. The common problems...📺

As what I clearly stated there, you probably think if watching any digital TVs will work flawlessly as you expect? Well (specifically around my area), no. It's because I have to deal with those of the common problems that usually occur every single time I watch them. When this particular problems gets worse, I have to fix it's own coaxial cable that connects between the TV and the outdoor antenna itself by fixing it's own connector in order to make it less occurring, which still doesn't even fix it most of the time (unless I will get the indoor antenna booster to rectify it though). As for the common problems on the digital TVs that I was talking about, here are the signs about them:

1. It occasionally producing bit of squeaking or popping sounds, followed by how the picture also occasionally stutters, pauses, or glitches by itself for a rapid moment. This is easily by far the most common problem that always present to encounter it every single time I watch them through all of the TV stations that are available on it (results may vary per each of the TV stations).
2. It also suddenly stops the TV broadcasts by itself from certain TV stations that I watch, then it immediately leads into "no signal" or "invalid service" screen.

Those common problems do occur probably due to these reasons below:

1. The connection between both my TV and the outdoor antenna are might be loose (most commonly occurs on it's own connector that connects directly to the TV, especially when it heats up after certain amount of time),
2. My old outdoor antenna probably doesn't receive any signals from nearest TV station transmitters very well, even if I already mounted it using that long a** pole for really that up high (unless if I already have my better one or improve it using an indoor antenna booster to rectify it for a bit, but I still didn't upgrade it nor acquiring the booster itself yet),
3. Any forms of technical difficulties that might occur on each of the nearest TV station's transmitters (specifically about how they sometimes change their TV channel index numbers and their respective frequencies), but that might not be the case for the nearest TV stations in my hometown (which I guarantee if they will work fairly flawlessly).
4. Any condition of the weather around my area that definitely cause all of those common problems usually occur (for instance: my outdoor antenna wobbles due to the strong wind, there are some lightning outside, etc.).

Well, there you have it for my experience about how I deal with digital TV terrestrials, particularly from anything around my area. If you have your experience from your own specifically about it and the common problems that usually occurs on it, feel free to ask anything particularly about them in the comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could particularly say about this article, and pay attention when it comes to dealing those problems that usually occurs on them............ otherwise you would end up raging.

Experience with my current Asus phone...📱

So, after a while since I use it as my current daily basis of me heavily using this particular device for roughly 4 years later, it's time to explain my summary of me using it in general since first time I acquired it until today. TBH, there's not much else that I could particularly say to this device as long as it does work just okay, apart from the fact it recently has some tiny problems while I'm particularly using it. Without further ado, let me explain about my overall summary of it either way.

1. General 📱

In case you've wondering of the brand and model of this particular device that I own since 2019, it is branded Asus, and the model name of this particular device is Zenfone Max Pro M1. I purchased it with the highest specifications as ever, which was the one with 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage, costed around IDR 3.000.000,-... I purchased this because I decided to replace my previous phone of the same brand (Zenfone 5 that I purchased back in early of 2015), because that phone was sort of outdated for certain stuffs. Originally, I wanted the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 version, but it was sold out in every single of the cell phone stores particularly in my hometown, so I picked the M1 instead, yet it was literally the last stock ever in one of the cell phone stores where I purchased it from. It also benefits by how one of my fellow fan enthusiast told me if this one has somewhat better build quality compared to the M2's, by the way.

2. Specifications 📱

• Model : ZB602KL

• Color : Black (even if it's own back door is dark blue)

• OS : Android 8 (originally, but now it runs on Android 9)

• Screen size : 6"

• RAM : 6 GB

• Internal storage : 64 GB

• Processor : Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM 636 (1.8 GHz)

• Camera : 16 MP (back, dual camera) and 8 MP (front)

• MFD : September 2018

3. Results 📱

Unlike my old Zenfone 5, this phone does it's job as what I expected for all kinds of stuffs that I want for it. When it comes specifically about how I open certain apps that has an interaction to connect it to the internet on each of them, it takes much less seconds to open them either way compared to my old one (results may vary on each of the apps, including online games). Not only just those, there are few moments about me having fun with it's own features that it has, so here are my results particularly about them, right away:

• First off, the quality of the camera is fairly better than my old Asus, due to the fact it has two of them on the back. Even if it's better, it has it's own weaknesses where it sometimes produces noisy pictures and videos, and it also sucks when it comes to capturing or recording everything in certain places with less lighting, which causing me force to turn on the flash every single time, which still doesn't help to make it look less noisy. As for the front camera, it's pretty much bog-standard quality without any ability to manually focus on everything, even if it does have a flash on it though. 📸
• Playing games on this phone is slightly better than my old Asus too, including heavier games that normally wouldn't work that well on that said old phone and even my previous Android devices before that one. Albeit if it's mildly laggy and does crash sometimes on each of them, at least it does work just 🆗, compared to what I've done specifically with those old Android devices that I used to have, which kept lagged and crashed like crazy due to poor specifications that they had. 🎮
• Opening certain editor apps (mainly for photo and video editor apps), they do work just okay for all kinds of editing that I want to, even if it looks and sounds somewhat awkward to me particularly in general. 🖼🎞
• Unlike any of my previous Android devices before this one, it has built-in stereo speakers. Even if it still doesn't sound all that good, it does have a headphone jack to plug either earphones, headphones or speakers. 🔊🎧
• The battery of this phone makes a huge difference compared to any of my previous Android devices before this one. While those only lasted for at least around 30 minutes that caused any of them would suddenly shut down by itself regardless of their condition of themselves while they're operating, this one lasts for least a day without shutting down by itself. Well, unless I open certain apps that drains it's own battery life quicker than it should. 🔋

After I used it for roughly 4 years since I purchased it in particular, I encountered some tiny problems while I'm using it. So, here are the said problems that sometimes appear on it, right away:

• It occasionally cuts out the Wi-Fi connection every single time, especially by how I connect it to certain Wi-Fi access points that has excellent speeds (especially for at least ~10 Mbps or more), although it does able to reconnect it back immediately. I have no clue if this particular problem also existed on my older Android devices before this one. For this case, it recently causes one of the background apps that associated with it just crashes when this happens, sometimes. 📶
• Even if it's unrelated to the phone itself, it recently has a weird error where it sometimes "deliberately" refused to install or update any of the apps that I installed on it from Google Play Store while it's processing. When this happens, I have to delete the Play Store's cache and storage through Settings app, if it works though.
• A tiny bug occurring every single time when I update Google Contact app on this phone from Google Play Store, either manually by myself or automatically by itself. When this happens, one of the options in Developer Options just resets by itself once it's finished updating it (for this case, it's the duration of the animation of the whole UI itself).⚙
• It sometimes has a problem where I stored any files to my old 32 GB microSD card that I equipped on it. In most cases, mainly for pictures and videos, the thumbnails of themselves sometimes won't show up, even if I open any of them most of the time I move or copy any of them from certain devices to the said microSD card that I put on this phone. When it occurs, I have to reboot it to make them show up like what it should be. Again, even though this is sort of unrelated to the phone itself, but it sometimes doing so when it comes to transferring my files in such method specifically like so. 

4. Conclusion 📱

This phone is literally my direct upgrade to my previous phone of the same brand, which was Asus Zenfone 5 that I purchased back in 2015. With it's own decent specifications that it has compared to my old one, I can do anything that I want for daily basis exactly like what I expected with it's own features that it has, thanks to it's own specifications that it specifically has... Even though this phone has certain special features specifically like so, of course it leads to some tiny problems while I'm using it after all these years of me heavily using it. Just like my previous Android devices that I used to have, this particular device does have the aforementioned problems that always bothers me to fix them in their such ways per each of them, although it is way less quantity to those on my older Android devices that were well-known for doing so frequently than this; one of them being notorious by how they crashed the apps by all of the sudden that made me enraged. For this case, it does crash some apps or games that I installed on this particular phone if I made something wrong with any of them, but the occurrences by how it doing so is much rare (so that means it's a good sign if this phone does perform better than those, right?).

Just out of context, but this is me testing a Plants vs. Zombies Heroes 🎮 on this particular 📱, taken in 2019...

🆗, enough by how I suddenly explain about that one notorious problem that commonly occurs in every single Android devices, including this phone that I'm using right now... Back to the device itself. Again, there's nothing else that I could particularly say to this as long as it does work just 🆗, even if it does have those of the said tiny problems that it has after all these years of me heavily using it. As for the future plan with it, I feel like I want to upgrade it with much better specifications than that even if it does work just like what I expected for daily basis compared to my older Android devices just before this one, but I don't think if I can do it way sooner due to the fact how broke I am these days, yet I also have no clue about which one that I will get soon..... Only the actual time will reveal the truth specifically about it, but hey, as long as I don't get one of those dodgy Chinese unbranded fake Android dummy phones that they usually boasts crazy flagship specifications for much affordable price (and they're also knockoff from popular brands that always fool every people out there in every single online marketplace), but it turns out if the specifications of themselves are just complete rotten potato which basically performs way worse than my very first Android phone that I ever used (my original Samsung Galaxy Y that I purchased back in 2011).🥔

before that one youtuber fully "dominates" the world of smashing stuffs...🔨📱⚒

Disclaimer: I'm NOT include any popular YouTubers of the said genre that have at least more than 5 million subscribers to explain this about why... Also, this is NOT a hate article about him, otherwise he will yelling at me like madman if he made his own hate X video if he actually sees this particular article soon...

Source: Adobe Stock Photos

Smashing stuffs, or known as destroying any kind of items, are kind of YouTube videos that I ever watched on the whole world of the internet. I watched many videos of destroying any items from various YouTubers, ranging from destroying electronic items, toys, until all the way to destroying part of the buildings (mainly for the abandoned places that were getting destroyed anyway). But, as soon as these time passes since 2016, things are getting intense due to the fact that one YouTuber that used to be underrated like the other YouTubers would, suddenly he got so popular thanks to his series about how he destroyed many of his items in such "unique" ways, thanks to his own series of them that he made since 2012. Things are getting better, because he hit 100K subscribers in 2017, which causing him to excite even more by improving his channel for a whole lot by making his crazy contents about them which ended up earning even more tons of subscribers... As of today, yes, he still making even more contents about them, and he already has over than 2M of subscribers!!! Well, before I will explain about him further, let me take a throwback about my good old days of me watching any kinds of those videos on YouTube, from the days before he even existed, until all the way how he fully dominates the whole world of the said genre, thanks to his crazy contents about them.

Back from around 9 years ago, I used to watch them from various YouTubers of the said genre, ranging from smashing electric fans (of course), TVs (of any kind), speakers, phones (of any kind), vacuum cleaners, computers, and more of the electronic things like so. The YouTubers of them that I usually watched were from those two ones that I know, one of them that is famous for blowing many speakers, and the other one is basically the one that I ever explained in my old article that explained about those two guys, thanks to how simple but funny they both are. I also even watch even more videos about them as well, except for the fact those videos were made by some random YouTubers that were less popular than those two YouTubers that I explained just before, including most of the YouTubers that are well-known for smashing a lot of things with their own golf clubs as their main tool to smash everything with them (unless the amount of views on most of them would help the case about how come if they're also somewhat popular). 🏌️‍♂️

Being an electric fan enthusiast, of course I watched so many electric fan destructions from those guys online since then, mainly for portable fans and ceiling fans. Even though most of them I just didn't like them due to the fact they destroyed certain fans that were valuable (mainly for old or vintage fans that would last longer than newer fans), but I did watch some of those other videos out there which were acceptable to watch them either way. Those were good simple and fun days, until I saw his first video by the said YouTuber that I clearly explained in this particular article.

The first video by the said YouTuber himself wasn't a fan destruction video, but rather a video of him putting his camera on his ceiling fan. Nothing particularly fancy about it, because I watched that when his subscribers was only less than 50. Then (around a year later or two, if I recalled it right), I watched another video by him accidently dropped his ceiling fan when he tried to put a destroyed original Xbox on the top of it (yes, he smashed that old console for one of his subscriber special in those days). Again, those were good old sweet days until he eventually earned more subscribers in those times, but it wasn't so many unlike the other YouTubers of the same genre that he did in those days. Of course I still watched any other smashing stuff videos from the other guys, until I came back to his channel to see how he had any changes, and the answer was mega unexpected for such channel like so.

As soon as he got a better recording equipment to record his videos from any angles; better place, even more subscribers, better skits, better editing, and better smashing tools that he got since last 4 years, I was shocked to see how overrated he is. I mean sure, his smashing stuff videos are purely original since he made his first video of him smashing a Tamagotchi with his yellow 🔨, but that wasn't the only reason about why he is so absurdly overrated these days. There are plenty of reasons about why he is so popular, such as:

• He made few of his many ways to break a certain device, starting off by that old LG Extravert phone, HTC Evo 3D smartphone, Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, broken Toshiba laptop, broken Nintendo 3DS, old Macbook, regular Nintendo Switch (which he did twice), Apple Watch, Nintendo Switch Lite (which he also did twice, as of today), Xbox Series S, PS5, and a graphics card.
• The fact he is clearly an Apple fanboy, he literally owns so many of the Apple products for use of his channel, and the rest of them are also present there for his "rocky" collection. He is also a Nintendo fanboy, so that's why he also owns bunch of those Nintendo game consoles from different eras from then until today too.
• Any "rocky" skits that he did for each of his smashing videos, which is so well-improved through many years. Jokes and gags that he includes on each of them are also counts for this too... Unless if he also uploads his behind the scenes per each of them, so.

It makes the matters even WAY better and better, due to the fact he uploaded and published one of his videos entitled him destroying that blue Nintendo Switch Lite in several ways that got so MANY freaking views! And it's his most popular video in his entire channel too!!! That is definitely the reason about why almost people around the world would able to subscribe him as MUCH as possible within few days, until he eventually reached to his milestone where he actually got his own Golden Play Button for him with ease. Because of all of that, he literally "rocks" himself by flexing his pride of his whole channel on most of his videos too, thanks to his "rocky" revenue from all of his videos.

Seeing him with all of his "rocky" pride these days, I would appreciate him that much about how he literally grown his channel so quickly, unlike the other YouTubers of the same genre as his. On the other hand though, I know if majority of his popular smashing videos do contain certain things that hurts my feelings (such as bad words [yes, he sometimes said so even if he censored it during editing], dangerous acts, etc.), that also means he is literally a total indirect insult to everybody, including me (unless I don't watch his newer contents at all)... I mean, no matter what kind of videos that I watch on YouTube (such as smashing videos, electric fan videos including mine, gaming videos, and so on), most of his "rocky" videos are sometimes appears frequently on each of the video lists, unless I literally watch videos DIRECTLY from him... I mean, not that bad considering he's so absurdly overrated these days, judging by the fact if the total amount of his "rocky" revenue that he recently revealed on one of his newer videos is literally similar to buying our whole country............ Just kidding.

Well then, even though I clearly explained the whole thing about his career from then until today with all of his glamorous stuffs on his own these days, I still don't get it about if he literally exists, that is literally the best way to fully dominate over the other YouTubers of the similar genre as his own. Sure, I do watch any other smashing stuff videos by themselves even IF this guy clearly existed with how many million subscribers that he has, but that is probably the reason about how I rarely watch any of them these days due to I'm a bit lazy to watch them either way. I mean, I'm not really hating him with a passion, but I literally have a total dilemma about him, every single time when I tried to look at any of his latest contents that looks and sounds like "Face me! Face me!" every single f****** time, thanks to his profile picture of both his own main channel and his own vlog channel.

Anyway, there you have it for my whole story of me watching any smashing stuff videos on YouTube since those good old days, until how that popular YouTuber fully dominates the said genre by all of his crazy contents. This is truly mega unexpected for a channel with that genre like so, because I thought in those good old days, he used to be simple with all of his limited stuffs that he owned in those days like typical average YouTubers would, especially for the good old times during he used to live in his old house... Now, with all of his glamourous pride that he "rocks" until today, I was mega shocked to see how he literally grown his channel so quickly thanks to how he literally overdoing it to the MAX by all of his crazy contents of mostly his smashing stuff series, and followed by some of his non-smashing ones as well. As of today, of course he's still exists, yet he's literally doing the said "rocky" content about themselves just CRAZIER at his fullest potential in every single f****** aspects that he already gotten into.

And one more thing, if you're an actual fan of himself, feel free to watch any of his "rocky" contents without saying hate comments for him, even if he sometimes says certain bad words on most of his videos that may asking you for the trouble about why... On the other hand though, if you're feel weird while watching any of them even IF you don't watch any of his contents yet, just simply don't watch it at all costs. Sure, his contents are absolute superb, but also quite cringe at the same time, when it comes about how he acts certain stuffs on most of his videos literally like so per each of his newer contents since around 4 years ago... Well, that's it for what I could say about this particular YouTuber that I explained in full already about how he literally "dominates" the genre of smashing stuff insanely well from zero to the "king" within few years, and thanks for reading this article.

Annoying ads in PVZ 2... in my 📱......🎮

As what I clearly stated in my previous post, entitled "Annoying video ads" earlier, so it's time to explain this topic again as a follow-up, but specifically for one of the games that I still play from roughly 7 years ago until today, which is the Plants vs. Zombies 2. I know if almost any of the modern mobile video games do have some ads in there, but I do spot most of the annoying ones that makes me feel cringe about why they always appear like that, menacingly. There's nothing else that I can say about this anyway, apart from the way how I explain about it is pretty much similar to what I explained in my previous aforementioned post of them in general. Just like that aforementioned main post of them that I made earlier, I divided them into 3 levels of how annoying they are, ranging from average, annoying, and most importantly, very annoying one... I also include certain types of the ads that are just simple texts, pictures, and simple animations in this one too, yet I also tell about when those ads usually appear in that particular game that I play it as well.

Before that, I'm gonna tell you about when those ads will appear in the whole game itself, so let me explain about it first, then I'll show what kind of ads that usually appears in the entire game itself too.

1. The way how they appears...🎮

While I'm playing the game itself, they usually appear in certain patterns in the entire game, for example:

• Win a level in Adventure Mode of the game (or losing it),
• Win a daily Pinata Party events (or losing it),
• Opening a store (or closing it, which is somehow rarely seen them),
• Win every single of Penny Pursuit's events (or losing it),
• Win (or losing) a PvP match in Arena (previously known as Battlez), and
• Win every single of Epic Quest steps (or losing it)

2. Levels...🎮

Again, I divided them into 3 levels of how annoying they are, ranging from average, annoying, and most importantly, very annoying one. So, here are 3 levels of them about how annoying they are, as the way how they usually appear in this entire game:

a. Average 👌

Just bunch of ads that I can simply close right when they appear. Either just plain texts, simple pictures, or even simple animations. Even though there are built-in ads from the game itself (such as leveling up plants, featured premium plants, simple guides, etc.), but overall, it's not really that bad... Unless I accidently tap on the ad itself instead of closing it straight away.

b. Annoying 😠

Like what I explained to the main post of those annoying ads before, right on the "Modern Video Games" section, there are some variants of the ads that I refer them as the annoying one. Majority of them are interactive video ads that I can close them for at least 5 seconds or more. There are some of the variants of the same type of the ads that I can simply close them using the back button... if that works though. FYI, certain of the third-party advertisers (such as Vungle, Iron Source) that advertises those random ads do count as this one, as if I can close them for at least 5 seconds or more.

c. Very Annoying 😡

Yes, and of course I do encounter some variants of those ads that I refer them as the most annoying one that I ever encountered so far.  So far (specifically for this game in particular), I found at least 2 types of ads that I refer them as it, because let's face it... those ads are really stubborn to get rid of, or other else that makes me feel angry about why those very annoying ads always appear like, "Tap me! Tap me!"... So, here are 2 types of very annoying ads that I encountered them in this game:

1. Interactive video ads that I CAN'T close it at all. This is one of the common ads that always appears in this game in general, yet one of it's variants are advertised by a third-party advertiser known as Ad Colony (if I guessed that right)... Although I can simply get rid of any of those ads by simply press the home button in order to exit the game with any of them, they will always come back with a vengeance for sure, especially when I tried to close any of them, I always tap the ad itself that leads to the aforementioned site (or online shop's promo) that they advertised. F***!!!😡
2. Some of the Annoying level ads that will (or may) crash the whole game... Yes! Even though those ads themselves (mainly video ads) aren't look that bad in the first glance, but after I close them, they will crash the whole game. This problem commonly occurred in 2 of my old Android devices that I used to have, yet the majority of the ads that crashed the game were obviously video ads for sure (if I mentioned 2 of those aforementioned Android devices right, due to one of them performed so horribly, yet it kept crashed the whole game even there were no ads for that). Meanwhile, for my current Android smartphone that I'm using right now, I've seen them less than before, although I still feel bummed about why those following ads are able to do so... Contains malware or something "sus" to crash the whole game? I don't even know.

Well, there you have it for short summary of the ads that always appears specifically in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Once again, every single of the modern video games (including this game) do have ads that always appear no matter when they will do so, ranging from average ones, all the way into the most annoying one that you may deal or get rid of it by the way... I think that's pretty much it for this post of the same topic of it that I made earlier, but I made it again specifically for one of the games that I usually play from few years ago until today. As usual, thanks for reading this post, and hope you can pay the attention about this follow-up post too.

Annoying video ads... (🇮🇩)

Yes... Ads...... Every time I do certain online things (such as watching YouTube videos, visiting some websites, playing online games, etc.), those random ads always appears. For example, a (or few) random item(s) being listed at an online shop, popular apps, some sort of online jobs, and so on. But, I'm not gonna explain about those basic ones like the ones that are just texts, pictures or simple animations, so I'm gonna explain about those annoying video ads that always appears in majority of the online stuffs that I ever seen so far from the past until today... I did encounter every single of the random video ads in almost any sites, apps or games that I ever played from then until now, but I did spot few of them that are (or were) so annoying, because it always appears so often, yet I can't fix it by personalizing the ads as well. Without further ado, here are lists about video ads ranging from the average ones, till to the most annoying ones that I encountered.

I'll divide into 3 different categories for this topic, one which is for YouTube, the other one is for the ones that usually appears in any of my modern video games that I installed on my devices, and the rest are for the other sites that has any of those.

A. YouTube

Of course YouTube do have a lot of video ads that always appears at almost any of the monetized videos in every single of them that I watched since from a long time ago, unless I'm using an ad blocker to prevent it... Anyway, here are my lists of those video ads that commonly appears on YouTube, divided into 3 levels about how I react to them:

a. Average

Example of a random video ad that I watched on YouTube, yet I categorized as the average ones... Just a video ad of that Panasonic mini-split air conditioner, which was so relatable to my main YouTube channel that made me felt pity to skip it anyway...

Only encountered few of them so far, which are just some video ads that is related to my main YouTube channel that made me didn't skip them due to they're so relatable to both of my YouTube channels that I own (such as air conditioner ads, HVLS ceiling fan ad, etc.). Moreover, I did encounter them during I didn't sign in on either one of my Google accounts... Or did I (from what I remembered).

b. Annoying

There are plenty of the video ads that I encountered them on YouTube that I categorized them as the annoying one. Here are my examples of them:

• Video ads of popular mobile games that are skippable (such as Rise of Kingdoms, Lords Mobile, Genshin Impact, Ragnarok, etc.). These are the most common video ads that appears randomly every time while I'm watching any videos on YouTube,

• Video ads of cheap mobile games that are also skippable (such as Playrix games [Homescapes, Gardenscapes, etc.], and some unrecognizable ones too),

• Certain video ads of popular apps on Google Play that are skippable (e.g.: popular online shops, trading apps [which my country's government just sued most of them though], and other usual apps that are also popular nowadays), 

• Certain long video ads that are skippable (for example, a short movie ad that has 2 minutes of video length).

c. Very Annoying

Well, here is my most annoying one that I found them on YouTube. So, here is my dreadful list of those video ads that I hate the most on YouTube:

• 5-second ads that ALWAYS appears way too often. Majority of them that appears are the ones that are based on those popular apps on Google Play (TikTok and SnackVideo are the ones that are appears way too often, as of today), followed by certain super apps that also popular in my country too...

• Some video ads that I obviously CAN'T skip, yet they're based on the ones that commonly appears on TV's commercial breaks. Usually comes with either 15 second video ad durations or their shortest one, 5 second ones. While I visit on any following video ads that randomly appear, it directly opens to certain things, such as the following items that they sell on online shops exactly like what they advertised, or other things like some sort of giveaway (but it's rarely seen).

B. Modern Video Games

Any of my modern video games that I ever installed and played, either on both my phone (most commonly) or even my laptop (which is barely seen any, because I never encountered any of them on it), I also encountered bunch of video ads as well... Just like what I mentioned on YouTube earlier, here are my lists of those video ads that commonly appears on my modern video games that I installed them on my devices, divided into 3 levels about how I react to them:

a. Average

Unlike YouTube, there are (or were) none of them... Simple as that.

b. Annoying

I did encounter bunch of annoying video ads on the mobile games. For example, majority of video ads like what they advertised on YouTube, except they associated them with Facebook. There are some other interactive type video ads that being associated by certain third-party domains as well (such as Iron Source or Vungle Privacy). Well, at least I can close them due to all of those video ads do have their own close button for at least 5 seconds after those ads appeared, although at most cases, I always tap the ad itself instead of closing it right away which is annoying! (sigh)

c. Very Annoying

Oh, lord... Of course there are some video ad variants that are so ANNOYING as heck! Just like YouTube with all of those video ads of the same level of very annoying they are; those makes me want to force close the whole YouTube app in order to get rid of them! For example, there is one variant of a video ad that I completely CAN'T close. No matter how it suddenly pops up like that on my phone's screen, there's absolute NO way to close it after 5 seconds or anything like that... Just like those ads on YouTube that I absolutely CAN'T skip (or I must deal with them anyway), I have to force close the whole game, then I re-open it again... Or, if I can play the game without this variant of the video ad, I just simply disable any internet connections, either from Wi-Fi or data connection.

That also counts for certain video ads that also appears (even though I can close them after at least 5 seconds at most cases), but it ended up just crash the whole game by itself! F***! It was commonly occurred on my previous Android devices that I used to own, yet also happens but lesser occurrence in my current Android smartphone that I have right now.

C. Other sites

For the other sites, I also encountered some of the annoying video ads that also appears in anywhere else. For example, if I didn't have the ad blocker on my browser during I opened the Fandom, there are few of video ads that caused me surprised by all of the sudden... During I explored through them, I suddenly heard a music or voices from those particular video ads that annoyed me at random times. There were no way to get rid of any of them though, apart from the ad blocker to prevent it to happen... For any of the random sites besides YouTube and those popular social medias, it's quite rare to encounter those annoying ads at almost any sites, so it's pretty average to encounter any of those though. Although there are few certain sites that I must disable the ad blocker on my browser for certain reasons, that doesn't affect about this anyway since I barely seen any of those annoying video ads anyway.

So, in conclusion... There are plenty of annoying video ads that appears in almost every single website that I visited them since from a long time ago. Ranging from not-so-bad ones which are passable, until to the most annoying ones that makes (or made) me feel so cringe against them. Again, there's no way to prevent any of the ads that appears in almost any websites (including YouTube), because that's how every single of the advertisers wants to do that for obvious marketing reasons per each of the websites. I mean, simple ads like just texts, pictures, or even simple animations are fine, but the video ads are the ones that I have to totally deal against, especially for the most annoying ones that I can't (or couldn't) even skip or close with ease, no matter what kind of those video ads are... IMO, majority of them are occurred on my mobile devices, so that's why there are many of those video ads that appears quite a lot compared to the simple ones. For the other platforms like for my laptop(s), as long as the ad blocker extension is present in any of the browsers that I have, it's all fine, although I must disable it in most of the websites though for certain reasons... No matter how I like or hate them with a passion, those video ads are always appears very often until today (especially for the ones that I can't skip or close them immediately or after 5 seconds). Anyway, that's it for the post that explains about some annoying video ads that appears in every single of the websites that I ever visited from a long time ago until today, and hopefully you can pay attention about this post by the way, if you can deal or get rid any of those though.