Experience with the AI playground apps...

Since the AI itself is now become a thing since last couple of years in particular, how about my experience of me using any of those AI playground apps that are now available out there? Well, I actually did use bunch of those AI playground apps for fun purposes, and I already doing so with two separate instances about them, which both of those are ChatGPT and (recently) Google Gemini, respectively.

Before I continue, I actually don't use either one of them quite often apart from the fact I sometimes having fun with certain stuffs that I want to tinker with them through all of those specific prompts that I typed into each of them (for this case, it was me turning some of my own pictures into something different that are related to them). As for others besides me with those pictures, I also occasionally use them for various other things, such as casual conversation with them in general and so on, albeit still way less frequent compared to everyone else out there.

As for both of those AI playground apps that I ever used there, here are my specific use for them, so those are:

1. ChatGPT

• I ever used it in order to turn bunch of my pictures into that Ghibili anime style that were once popular back in those days. Not sure if I actually did it with something other than my own collectible items instead of people's models like everyone's else did back in those days.
• I ever attempted to check a YouTube video link that was once existed back in those days until it got deleted later on. However, instead of doing so like how Wayback Machine or Internet Archive would work, it introduced me with something that had nothing to do with the link itself (though those people behind Wayback Machine or Internet Archive themselves didn't retrieve several of those defunct YouTube links in the first place).

2. Google Gemini

Similarly to ChatGPT, except with major differences between the two, so those are:

• I used it recently for having fun with several of my pictures (or sometimes someone's else pictures) in order to turn them into AI mini figure styles that are popular since last two months (as of the time when I clearly created this particular article). Not sure about other styles like Polaroid or others since I still centering around with my own collectible items instead of people's models like most people recently would do.
• I attempted to check a YouTube video link that was once existed back in those days until it got deleted later on. Instead of showing some of the irrelevant results, it literally showed me with the true reason about how come if that particular YouTube video itself is now gone.

 

As for the honorable mention, there was also a Bing AI which I also used for very short amount of time compared to those two that I mentioned there, except I only used it for casual conversation with it just for once.

Even if those of the AI playground apps do exist nowadays, I already understand about the ethics of me using it general, so that means I obviously NEVER misuse them for certain horrible stuffs that are associated with them, for example (because why not, some people out there are way advance enough to use AI stuffs for bad stuffs, such as deepfake, scamming, and so on [which those are literally existed even before AI playground apps themselves are really a thing]). Well, if you have an experience of using one of those popular AI playground apps, feel free to share your own story in the comments section. Anyway, that's basically it for what I could particularly say to this particular article, and pay full attention when it comes to using the AI playground apps in general, otherwise you'll end up having a major problem if you use them incorrectly.

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.

FAQs: my childhood YouTube stuffs...

Believe or not, I watched any kinds of YouTube videos particularly since 2012. Although the ones that I'm watching right now are basically just the ones that resembles to what I usually upload on both of my own YouTube channels that I have, but there were even more of YouTube videos of any kind that I ever watched particularly since then... Without further ado, let me answer them into this sort of frequently asked question essays, ranging from the common ones, until all the way to bunch of those specific ones that are related to both of my own YouTube channels. So, here are my essays particularly about them, right away.

Q : What was your very first YouTube videos that you ever watched in general?

A : My very first YouTube videos that I ever watched were various videos of drum band parades performed by various schools (mainly junior high schools and senior high schools) in Rantepao (North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia). Those videos were originally recorded specifically several days after our entire country's 62th independence day (August 17th, 2007)... Those were also my very first YouTube videos which I also downloaded them from the internet, and surprisingly I still keep most of them, although those were got deleted from YouTube later on since around a decade ago. 🥁

Q : Did you ever watch that legendary Jawed's "Me at the zoo" video that he uploaded back in 2005?

A : Unfortunately, no I didn't.

Q : How did you able to watch YouTube videos initially in those times specifically from then?

A : I used to watch them casually using a browser on my very first laptop, which I connected to the internet using a (some sort of) painfully slow USB modem that always didn't deliver it's own internet access very well... Even though I also used to have my very first smartphone, but that also wasn't really that reliable to do so, because I always opened the browser instead of the YouTube app itself.

Q : What was your very first YouTube gaming videos that you ever watched in general?

A : If I guessed that right, both of the original game trailers of Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies, respectively... That also applied to most of the retro gaming videos too, because the fact I used to play some of those NES or Famicom games on my old Famiclone that I used to own (which the one that I used to have was the one that shaped like original Playstation 1), and so for those of the bootleg Game Boy Advance multicarts that contained hundreds of NES or Famicom games that I also used to play them on my old original Game Boy Advance. 🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube music videos that you ever watched or listened?

A : This might be a tricky question, but my very first YouTube music videos that I ever watched or listened were various of music covers from one of my favorite dangdut koplo bands in our whole country that were existed in those days (specifically from East Java province), though those videos were deleted due to the obvious copyright infringement... As for any foreign music tracks that I ever listened, those of the 009 Sound System songs were also the inclusions for this too, since I watched many of those electric fan videos, most of the people used to equip random songs from themselves in those days (which YouTube obviously demonetized them anyway, including most of mine as well).🎶

Q : What was your very first YouTube animation videos (of any kind) that you ever watched?

A : Those of the earliest Alan Becker's creations of his famous animated cartoon videos, followed by FunVideoTV's 3D fanmade animation videos of their own Angry Birds stuffs.

Q : What was your very first YouTube channel that you ever subscribed?

A : Rfm vs Games, because the fact I started enjoying Plants vs. Zombies franchise since then, I also decided to watch YouTube videos in it's days by subscribing him thanks to his entertaining contents that were relevant to the aforementioned franchise itself.🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan video that you ever watched in general?

A : "World's Loudest Ceiling Fan".

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos by some collectors and enthusiasts that you ever watched in general?

A : There were plenty of those that I watched since then, especially that one ceiling fan collection video by a fan collector who used to live in a trailer park filled with themselves... However, certain people such as Vintage Fans & More (formerly known as Cole S.), Dan "Spiffy" Neuman, and Pankaat (that one fan collector from UAE) were the ones that I always recognized the most until today.

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos specifically from your country that wasn't from your own?

A : From what I remembered since then, those of TheeXtremeFanEnthusiast's first electric fan videos that he uploaded in the late of 2013. Not only just that, I also watched bunch of electric fan videos by a guy who lives in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (unfortunately, his old channel got deleted later on in favor of his current one that exists since few years ago [though some of his friends were able to retrieve some of his old footages of themselves]).

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff video that you ever watched in general?

A : That one Beno's video of him smashing a desk fan and messing around with it's own 220v/50Hz AC motor that came with it, simple as that.🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff channels that you ever subscribed?

A : Garret Claridge and Shawn K... For Garret Claridge's case, it's because it was my very first YouTube smashing stuff channel that I ever subscribed thanks to his unique contents of mainly blowing speakers and smashing random items (though most of them were vintage electronics though, so yeah)... Meanwhile, as for the Shawn K's case, I was impressed by the way how he and Matt smashed random electronic items in their own entertaining way which caused I sometimes laughed every single time I watched his destruction videos (though they both also ever destroyed certain random vintage electronic items, especially for that Macintosh Classic II that they both did in 2013, but it's okay I guess).🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Probably the reviews of those of the Jazwares sets of the original Plants vs. Zombies mini figure sets (both blister packs and blind bags). Those were existed right when K'NEX mini figure sets of themselves still yet to be existed until roughly around a year later... Not sure for other franchises like Angry Birds though.

Q : What was your very first YouTube bootleg toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Those reviews of the weird, cheap bootleg Plants vs. Zombies mini figure brick sets, including plenty of those that ripped off their packaging from K'NEX.

Q : What was your very first YouTube device review videos of any kind that you ever watched?

A : I believe it was that Ashens' video of reviewing that exact fake iPhone 4, called "Airphone 4", followed by most of his "Pop Station" mini LCD handheld games that he reviewed too... Bootleg devices aside, I couldn't remember my very first YouTube's official device review videos that I ever watched though (including those that are particularly available from our entire country too).

Q : Apart from electric fans, toys, gaming stuffs, music, marching or drum band stuffs, smashing stuffs, and hardware reviews...... What was your first random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the aforementioned categories that you ever watched?

A : Somewhere around a decade ago, I used to watch various random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the said categories; those were abandoned places videos, random compilation videos, random skit videos, random documentary videos, and so on.

Well then, there you have it for my frequently asked question essays particularly about my own childhood YouTube stuffs. If you have your own good old memories regarding to this particular article, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you still recognized them though from your own perspective. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and cheers!

My mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection...

It's been a while since I made bunch of my YouTube fan videos of themselves, so it's time for explaining about those of my mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection. However, all of them had their own stories per each of those, which I ended up got rid each of them for good (except for one of them which it simply lost). Without further ado, let me list all of those aforementioned mini ceiling fans that I'm referring to, right away.

1. Another Elitesat FC-08-50 500mm

First off, you may recognize this exact blue Elitesat mini ceiling fan which I featured bunch of times on my YouTube channel already, but I actually used to have another identical Elitesat mini ceiling fan, and that one was my very first mini ceiling fan that I ever purchased in my life back in 2008, followed by this one. It worked similarly as this one, except it was slightly less wobbly compared to this one too... It initially used to mount in the living room of that house (and so for this one), but then I decided to move it in two different bedrooms of that house (and so for this one too). However, during the mini renovation of my childhood house where I used to born in there, I accidently forgot about where I temporarily saved both of these while both of them were dismantled from the ceiling (including this one), therefore I lost that one, which means this one was the only one that remained until one of it's own original blades broke off and lost. I had no clue about how come if I accidently lost that particular one, but I also feel sad for not keeping that with me.

2. Extend 700mm

After I purchased both of those Elitesat mini ceiling fans, I also purchased this one. It was also my very first mini ceiling fan that was larger than 500mm, although the color of it was roughly the same (albeit it was brighter). It worked perfectly fine, and it generated averagely the same amount of air delivery as both of those Elitesats were, except it was slightly less. Everything about it was okay until I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my childhood house, right after I used to mount it in the living room of that house first... Due to the intense heat of the kitchen itself, it caused all of it's own blades broke off so easily by itself. So that was basically it, I wasn't even able to glue it's own brittle blades probably due to they simply lost right when they broke per each of them while it was operating, which I also ended up trashing it later on.

3. Meet 500mm

Well, after roughly 5 years since I purchased both of those Elitesats and Extend, I finally purchased my very first mini ceiling fan that wasn't in blue color, which was this one. It did generate fairly good amount of air thanks to slightly steeper blade pitch that it had compared to those of my aforementioned blue mini ceiling fans that I purchased a while before, except for that one hiccupping problem while it was hanging in the living room of that house. This problem literally lasted until one of it's own blades broke off by itself. Due to the weird state of it, there was no way to fix it which I ended up trashing it later on, except for one of it's own blades which I used it on that remaining Elitesat there in those times.

4. Sivicom FC-08-50 (SV-500) 500mm

Not too long after I purchased that Meet, I also purchased this one simply because of how different it looked compared to the average mini ceiling fans that were available on sale in those times. Although this one was cheaper than that Meet, it worked perfectly fine without hiccupping problems, and it generated reasonably good amount of air with it's own original white blades (it's because this was the old version of it, meanwhile for the newer versions have turquoise blades)... During those times in my childhood house, it initially used to mount in the living room of that house. However, after I moved out from that house, it eventually moved into one of the bedrooms (which used to be my bedroom of that house), until I decided to pluck it with me and mount it in the kitchen of my previous house, and then one of the family's relative's replaced it with the Oshaky in that exact room of my childhood house.

During those times in my previous house, it managed to last for approximately 6 years before it stopped working suddenly by itself. Well, after it stopped working specifically like so, I let my dad to take it down, but for some reason he decided to do so by passing it's own motor to the top part of the wood travers of the asbestos roof above that house's back porch, which caused the it's own motor housing got dented severely. Although I was able to salvage it's own original blades, but I was once used it as a horizontal windmill by removing some parts of it's own synchronous motor, except I used Jiamei blades on it. It was all that fun until a random squirrel that came from nowhere accidently dropped it while it was hanging, which caused all of the Jiamei blades that I equipped on it got destroyed to bunch of small mosaic pieces, right when it got impacted to the concrete. Due to the state of it after that exact accident, I ended up trashing the motor itself later on.

5. Bright-G FC-08-50 (BG-500) 500mm

Some of you may recognize this exact Bright-G mini ceiling fan that I purchased specifically back in 2015, which I mounted it in the back porch of my previous house along with my other mini ceiling fans that I used to mount in there. Judging by the classic style of it, it was a new old stock fan according to one of the online fellow fan enthusiasts... As for the fan itself, it worked perfectly fine and generated fairly good amount of air. However, instead of keeping it with me like the rest of my mini ceiling fans that I'm currently own, I decided to give it away for free to my vocational high school in order to install it in the canteen of that school (don't ask me about how come if I did so). However, some of the senior students didn't able to connect it's own cable properly, which they ended up trashing it instead in that location, including about how come if they also destroyed those blades too. 🤦‍♂️

6. Bright-G FD-10-70E 700mm

Believe or not, this one was purchased initially by my dad in order to mount this in his main workplace first until it's own original blades broke off (which for that case, in order to replace one of the Jiamei mini clip fans in there)... After all of it's own blades broke off, he was able to find another nearly identical blade set that perfectly fit of it by simply glued all of them on it. Then, he asked me in order to bring it home from his personal workplace, and I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my previous house in 2021. It worked just alright, except it used to have all of that squeaking and grinding noises while it's operating until I was able to fix it by oiling it's own synchronous motor. Everything about it was okay until the time where I moved out from there in 2023, I had to take it down even with it's own daily beater condition that it particularly had (because my mom always turned it on while she used to cook in there). After I moved out from there, I was once attempted to remove it's own brittle blades out from it (and so for cleaning it), but I ended up breaking them instead due to the difficulty of me tried to do so with all of it's own blades that he glued into it. Due to the horrible state that it specifically had, unfortunately I decided to trash it away.

Before I wrap up this article, here are two random fans that were once existed but then I got rid of each of them later on, except I didn't purchase both of these in the first place (though one of them wasn't even from my collection anyway). So, both of those fans were:

• Unknown black-red oldie 500mm : This one was originally purchased by my cousin back in ~2005 (if I guessed that right), and it used to mount in one of the bedrooms of my childhood house before he and his parents moved into his current house (including this fan by installing it on his bedroom). It lasted for approximately 7 years before it broke off and replaced by that 500mm Shukaku SKU MF-50, however I was once able to pluck it from his current house and use it as a display of my mini ceiling fan collection in my previous house, even if all of it's own red blades were lost already. Due to the fact it was broken since then, I just got rid of it right when I moved out from my previous house.
• Jiamei JM-590 700mm : This one was originally purchased by one of my family's relative's from my mom's side in early of 2016 in order to mount it inside my grandma's bedroom of my childhood house. After she was deceased in 2017, my dad eventually used this fan in his main workplace, in order to replace his HTC industrial ceiling fan with it a year later. It lasted for few years before it stopped working by itself. I was able to salvage it's own blades, but unfortunately he decided to trash the motor itself later on.

Well then, there you have it for those mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection, but then I had to get rid each of them for good due to each of the reasons that I already mentioned above (except for one of them, which it was simply lost). If you have your own good old memories regarding to this particular topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article.

Marching/drum band stuffs...❔ 🥁🎺 (ID)

Believe or not, I was an ex-marching band player. Although it only lasted only on 3 schools where I used to study in each of them which had their own marching or drum bands, such as my 2 separate kindergartens, and my old primary school. However, I'm not gonna tell you about how come if I decided to stop doing so during I was in my primary school by all of the sudden, it's because that would be my "top secret" to totally expose the truth about why... Speaking about the marching/drum band in general though, I also had lot of experience of watching marching/drum band displays or parades performed by various schools (or certain institutes, albeit it is insanely rare to invite at least one of those particularly in my hometown where I do live since I was born in here), until all the way about how I simply watch any of them on YouTube. Without further ado, let me categorize into 3 different sections, which are from those of my old schools, watching parades or displays in person, and watching many of those YouTube videos of them.

A. Marching/drum bands from your old schools? 🥁🎺

As what I clearly stated just earlier, I was an ex-marching band player from those 3 aforementioned old schools where I used to study back in those days per each of them. Except, I used to wield one of the percussion instruments only, rather than certain of those melodica or brass instruments though. As for the percussion instruments that I was referring to, I only used to wield mainly snare drums, simply because it was an easy percussion instrument that I ever played since those of my childhood days in my very first kindergarten until those days in my old primary school IMO (albeit the one in my primary school was obviously more advanced for sure).

As for the display and parades from one of them (for this case, my old primary school, because why not), here are both of my notable moments about each of them both:

• Display : I remembered that time when I and several of my old friends used to perform our drum band display that was held in someone's senior high school in order to win a display competition against many other marching/drum bands from various other primary schools around my entire hometown. Even though we eventually got the second place, but it was highly amazing experience to say the least.
• Parade : The word itself is pretty much self-explanatory in general (because this one was obviously more common than the display), although I remembered the time when I was totally exhausted while the parade itself was on-going, I had to take a break by sitting on my school's janitor's pedicab that was ridden by himself, alongside with the snare drum itself that I used to wield it with me for a moment (yep, the snare drum itself was somewhat heavy to me).🥁

B. Marching/drum band parades around your hometown? 🥁🎺

Moving on to how I watched various marching/drum band parades around my hometown, specifically performed by various schools (such as kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, and senior/vocational high schools). Even though those were much more common to encounter them per each of them since my childhood per each of those days where the whole government used to host each of the aforementioned parade events themselves every once per year, but I remembered if our whole government from our hometown used to invite two special guest military style cadet drum bands into my hometown, which those were both Indonesian Naval Academy and Institute of Home Affairs, respectively. However, I didn't even watch the Indonesian Naval Academy's cadet drum band in person though (though they used to invite them twice), instead I used to briefly watch the Institute of Home Affairs one from more than a decade ago. The aforementioned drum band itself was exactly what I highly excited for, more so than those of the common marching/drum bands that were performed casually by various schools around my entire hometown (except for few of them that looked great IMO). Overall, I'm glad if I used to watch at least one of those cadet military style bands in person, but I highly doubt it if our current government from our hometown will able to invite another one of those anytime soon for now.

C. Marching/drum band videos on YouTube...🥁🎺

Of course if I ever watched many of those marching/drum band that were performed by various schools around my hometown where I do live, I also watch many YouTube videos of themselves too! However, I actually watched them since my childhood, back when I specifically used to briefly watch them from my old laptop or my very first smartphone. Even though it was painfully difficult to connect them both to the internet to begin with, at least I was able to watch my very first marching/drum band videos on YouTube, which were various marching/drum band parades from various schools in Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi (unfortunately, all of those old videos of them were deleted already, although I was able to download them though when they were available online from back then).

Surprisingly, right after roughly more than a decade without watching those YouTube videos of them, I decided to watch even more of them due to my boredom against all of my own stuffs that I'm currently enjoying them these days. Anyway, the list of the videos of them are:

• Various videos of popular cadet military style bands from our whole country (such as Indonesian Armed Forces Academy, Indonesian Naval Academy, Indonesian Air Force Academy, and Indonesian Police Academy). Others such as Institute of Home Affairs do count for this category, and so for many more cadet military/marching bands from certain other academics, polytechnics or universities (such as merchant marine polytechnic[s], land transport academy, defense university, etc.).

• Various videos of certain military style bands that are "inspired" their styles from those of the aforementioned popular cadet military bands from our whole country, including those that are from the senior cadet high schools and those of non-civil institutes.
• Many videos of those marching/drum bands performed by various schools around my hometown, although majority of them (except for kindergartens and most of the primary schools) are now using modern marching style bands instead of the classic ones.

• Some of the "cheapo" marching/drum band groups performed by certain small communities or simply by a small group of people, including those from my hometown where I do live.
• More videos of various marching/drum band parades and displays from various schools around the eastern part of our whole country (for this case, Rantepao [North Toraja, South Sulawesi], Baubau [Buton Islands, Southeast Sulawesi], and so on).

• Those of the "dance-able" marching/band groups, performed by bunch of those performers per each of the groups from rural areas in entire regency of Sukabumi (excluding the Sukabumi City), West Java.

• Some lyre cover videos, both from our country or outside our country. Heck, one of them used to cover my favorite video game's soundtracks too (for this case, some of the original Plants vs. Zombies soundtracks like Watery Graves [Pool level], Graze the Roof [Roof level], Brainiac Maniac [Dr. Zomboss battle], and Cerebrawl [Puzzle mode, both Vasebreaker and I, Zombie levels]). Not sure for any other videos with different melodica instruments besides lyre though (as for now).
• Bunch of marching/drum band groups performed by any foreign people who lives in their respective countries that aren't from our country, albeit I rarely watch them though besides most of those lyre cover videos that I mentioned just earlier (as for now).

Well, there you have it for my own story about the marching/drum band stuffs in general, ranging about how I used to perform in each of the marching/drum bands in those of my old schools where I used to study back in those days, then I used to watch all of those marching/drum band parades in my hometown where I do live, and how I still watch many of those YouTube videos of them since those good old days too. If you have your good old memories regarding to this exact topic (such as performing at least one of those in your own school[s], or probably remembering the time when your hometown's government used to invite one of those special military style cadet drum bands [if any]), feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you still recognize them though until today. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.

The truth behind my dad's old Maspion orbit ceiling fan...

After I made 6 videos particularly about it since I made my own YouTube channel of fans from more than a decade ago, which my videos of them were:

1. Original video from 2014,
2. First remake video from 2015,
3. Second remake video from 2019,
4. Update video from 2020,
5. Third remake video from this year, and
6. Another update video from this year

This time, I decided to tell you specifically about how come if my dad literally acquired this exact old Maspion MOF-40 orbit ceiling fan since first time he acquired it from more than roughly 2 decades ago. Without further ado, let me share my own short story about how come if my dad owned this particular old orbit ceiling fan since then.

Basically, he acquired this old Maspion particularly from someone else which I had no clue where it originally came from, and it originally didn't work at all. However, he was able to resurrect it by repairing it's own fan motor (and possibly it's own internal wiring) to make it works again, including it's own orbital motor too (if I guessed that right)... Every parts on the entire fan itself were seemingly original (including it's own 3-speed regulator that came with it), judging by how this fan used to equip that one transparent light blue blade set before the aforementioned blade itself broke. From what I could recognize back in those good old days before I recorded my original video of it, it originally used to work on all 3 speeds like what it is now, except the low and medium speeds were way slower, and eventually it used to stuck on low speed just like what I clearly showed in my original 2014 video of it. As for the original orbital motor that used to equip on it back in those days, it used to work like what it is now, except it was a tiny bit faster (but not as fast as my 2020 update video of it), before it eventually stopped working somewhere before I recorded my original 2014 video of it.

Through many years since he acquired it specifically since then, it eventually ran into few noticeable issues, such as it used to work only on one speed, it used to barely blow any air delivery with that one solid dark blue blade that was once equipped on it, and it also caused one of the LED lights in his personal workplace just flickered endlessly as well, which occurred few months ago before a repairman repaired the entire thing to make it works better later on... However, after the repairman did the aforementioned job for doing so, it now works better as what I and he expected, in addition about how he was able to replace certain parts with a better one (such as fan motor, orbital motor, capacitor [❔], and the blade set itself). Even though right after that repairman already repaired it, it also used to suddenly stop working entirely by itself before he decided to call another repairman to repair it again. With the current state that it has since I made my second update video of it from this year, I'm glad if it's still works great after all these years in general, even if it used to ran into few of those aforementioned issues that I already mentioned just earlier.

Well, there you have it for the truth behind my dad's old Maspion orbit ceiling fan. If you have your good old memories regarding to this exact topic (such as watching those of my old videos about it, or owning experience with one of those orbit ceiling fans of the similar brand and model if you have at least one of those [except for generation, unless if you still somehow keep it or not]), feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.

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.

Experience with free Windows 10 video editor, but...

After I made my article that literally explained about how's my overall experience with that good old Windows Movie Maker that I recently installed it in my current 💻 that I'm using right now, it's time to retrospect it for a bit by explaining about my overall experience of (supposed to be) it's "successor", which used to be available for pure free since I acquired my own 💻 with Windows 10 installed. Without further ado, let me particularly explain about my about my experience with this particular video editor, right away.

Again, just like that old Windows Movie Maker (even if it looked so different compared to that classic version that everybody would know and enjoyed), there's nothing else that I could say to this particular video editor, apart from the fact this used to be available for free from the Photos app, yet according to some random sources online, it was also known as "Microsoft Story Remix". Yes, it also had limited features just like it's own predecessor that I was talking about, but it had several differences between this and that aforementioned video editor, such as:

1. Unlike that old Movie Maker which would you to save any of the edited footages into a project file (.wlmp), this one simply saved the edited footages immediately after you close the project itself. Except, any of the selected media files that I included them into it also copied them into certain folders too (for instance, Libraries > Pictures > Video Projects for both picture and video files for some reason, and Libraries > Music > Video Projects for audio files, respectively). 📁
2. In order to trim or split video footages, it always introduced me to do one of the said ways in it's own separate editing window to do so per each of them both. ✂🎞
3. In order to add either stock music tracks or any of my own music or sound tracks to certain parts of the edited footage (including how I trimmed certain parts of the music or sound tracks itself), it also introduced me to do it in it's own separate editing window to do so. ✂🎵🎶🎼
4. In order to add any of stock title cards (or stock captions) that came with it, it also introduced me to do it in it's own separate editing window to select which one that I'd want among all of those ones that were available in there (including that Comic Sans one, ugh).
5. It had an option to remove black bars on any of my own pictures with (mostly) 4:3 aspect ratio, unlike that old Movie Maker, which didn't have any. 🖼
6. It also had a feature to add certain 3D objects and certain visual effects that came particularly with it, which most of them had their own unique sound effects too.

Even though it did work just fairly decent as what I expected since I initially discovered it, of course there were some flaws that it specifically had during I tried to edit my own videos on it, such as:

1. NO option for adding transitions between two pictures of videos at all... Simple as that.
2. Most of the stock music tracks that came with it were copyrighted. This was occurred in few of my videos that I edited using it with most of those music tracks that I literally added on them. Then, I uploaded them on YouTube, and after few moments later, they were detected if most of those music tracks that I put on them were copyrighted indeed. Not only just that, it also didn't have a feature to trim the music tracks that came with it into specific position of the edited video footage itself, unlike any of my own music tracks that I put on it, which they simply did. ©🎵⚠
3. The edited video footages sometimes stuttered for a little bit during I tried to play the edited footages through it's own preview pane, and it also even led into a black screen for a brief moment.
4. Even if it had cool selection of title cards (or captions), there were no options to customize those texts anyway.
5. No option for adding both fade in and fade out audio transitions for the videos, unlike how it literally had that particular feature for any of my own music or sound tracks that I added them on it.
6. The exporting process sometimes stuck, especially during I tried to export my edited video footages that had certain amount of length and quality that I'd export it to (which I usually set it to 1080p).

After I used it particularly as a simple video editor for roughly 2 years, it eventually omitted for real since the Photos app itself literally updated to it's latest version. Even if the Video Editor app is still present until today, it literally redirects me into the newer Photos app itself without the said video editor itself. Instead, it offered me to install Microsoft Clipchamp, which I already experienced it for a little bit in one of my articles that literally explained about video editors that I ever used on my own current 💻 in general. However, I found out the way to revisit it back by downloading it's own separate legacy version of the Photos itself, but I don't think if I'm able to do so for editing even more of my own videos specifically using it for now... Well, if you also have an experience when it comes to editing your own video footages using one of these, feel free to say your experience with it in the comments section if you still recognize it anyway, albeit it's obviously less memorable than that old Movie Maker. That's it for what I could specifically say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular 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.

Experience with old Windows Movie Maker...🎞🎬

Note: You must be extremely careful when it comes to searching and downloading this particular old video editing software from various random sites out there. I'm not guarantee if most of them might offer some sort of fake file installers of themselves that contains any kinds of malware that may harm your computer's or laptop's entire operating system instead.

This ain't my filler article that explains about my previous article that explains about the update of the video editing software that I ever used on my current laptop that I'm using these days in general. However, I recently tried yet another video editing software that is pure free (but not trial), and it is literally the previous iteration of that particular free Windows 10 video editor that is now gone, thanks to how they decided to get rid of it in the latest version of the Photos app, unless I'd love to use the Microsoft Clipchamp instead, which I also clearly stated it briefly in the same update article of those video editors that I ever used in my current laptop... Okay, of course you probably mentioned this particular iteration of the said Windows's official free video editor before, the old Windows Movie Maker. Even though I recently use it for a bit for basic video editing (which basically just it), but I already found some of my short results when it comes to how I'm recently using it. So, without further ado, let me explain particularly about my experience with this particular old Windows video editor, right away. 🎞

There's nothing else that I could particularly say to it though, apart from the fact how Microsoft no longer supporting this particular video editing software back in January of 2017. Well, that doesn't stop it by how I was able to search it online by simply downloading the software itself until I found the installer file itself in particular, called "Windows Essentials 2012" (wlsetup.exe). With the old .NET Framework 3.5 that was already installed on my current laptop's Windows 10 operating system by default since I acquired from then (or I did it somehow by downloading and installing it particularly from one of those monthly updates from Windows Update, oh boy), it's not really a big deal for installing it either way (unless if it wouldn't present yet, I must download and install it anyway, otherwise it wouldn't work at all)... There were certain options for installing certain programs that was bundled with the "Windows Essentials 2012", such as Messenger, Mail, Writer, and most importantly, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. Of course I obviously just chose Photo Gallery and Movie Maker only, because why not. 🎞

Upon I successfully installed and decided to open it, there's nothing else that I could particularly say to it as it works just fairly okay, until I decided to have some fun by importing some of my own photo and video files on the project file. While it literally has limited features unlike majority of the other kinds of video editors that I mentioned in those two of my article that explained about my experience of me using them, it does it's basic job as what I expected for (ranging from all kinds of basic editing that I can deliver on it, until how I'm able to export my edited video footages from it just fine), albeit the UI of it looks so different compared to the beloved classic version that used to exist in everybody's computers or laptops with Windows XP/Vista installed back in those days. Even then, this particular video editor is somewhat better compared to that free Windows 10 video editor that used to exist, thanks to how it obviously has certain features that didn't present in that free Windows 10 video editor, being one of them is the transitions between two photos or videos (albeit you can only set it between from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds though)... Again, it does it's own basic job when it comes to editing my own videos in general, but it does have certain flaws while I'm editing any of my own video footages on it. Those are:

1. It takes a while to import certain video files with higher resolution and larger file sizes.
2. The edited video footage sometimes drop some frame rates while I'm tried to play it through the preview pane, unless I have to "fix" it specifically using two options from the settings of this whole video editor (can you guess about what are those two options that I'm talking about, although if I somehow "fix" it through both of those said options, it eventually leads into another problem where the whole software itself just performs partially unstable).
3. While I put some music tracks or sound effects on the project, it's so awkward while I tried to move those bars around it no matter what.
4. No option for adding shadow effects on the texts.
5. No "Picture-in-Picture" option, and so for how it doesn't have an option to remove black bars on the pictures that I added them on the project.
6. No option for turning the main editing pane from both storyboard and timeline modes, which used to exist in the classic Windows XP/Vista versions of it.
7. While I'm applying certain hefty stuffs to the project that consists of (mostly) certain edited video footages, it sometimes causing the whole program itself to freeze and crash. It also makes the matters worse once it crashed, it sometimes refused to open until I must restart my whole laptop's operating system in order to make it work.

Well, there you have it for my experience of me using this old Windows Movie Maker in general. After that actual riddance of that free Windows 10 video editor, I don't think if I'm able to find yet another free (but not trial) video editing software that may work just decently on my current laptop with it's own modern day 🥔 specifications, just clearly stated as what I already explained in my previous articles about themselves... If you have plenty of good memories when it comes to editing your own video footages using one of these, feel free to say your experience with it in the comments section if your memory still serves them right in your own mind. That's it for what I could say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article. 🎞