in memoriam with that person from my entire family...🥀

Well, it's time to share some of my own stories particularly about my good old days with one of the members from my entire family (preferably from my mom's side) that was once existed since I was born, and then he recently passed away due to the fact he suddenly got a fatal disease. Without further ado, let me share my own stories particularly about my good old days with him in general, ranging from those days when I was a kid, until all the way to final moments with him before he passed away...

A. My childhood times with him...

Back when I was a kid, I was hanging around with him for roughly many times, including my grandma that was also once existed back in those days. Those were the sweet times overall, with an exception about how come if I ever broke his old Sony Ericcsson feature phone with monochrome screens that he newly purchased it in ~2006 by slamming it to the floor of my childhood house, especially when there was an incoming SMS with it's own ringtone. Sure, I was once got annoyed by the ringtone itself, but thankfully, he didn't feel really that mad on me when I particularly did that though.

Although I was able to meet him many times in my childhood house, he was once had some random jobs somewhere in Malaysia for few years right after roughly two years after that time where I broke his aforementioned phone, until he decided to return back into Indonesia, specifically in my hometown where I do live. He decided to do so in order to marry his wife in 2011, and then they both took a birth of their first children several years later, followed by how they also took a birth to their second children right after the previous one several years later too.

B. In relation of my YouTube channel of fans...

When it comes to the relation of my YouTube channel of fans, there's not much else that I could say to him apart from the fact he had fairly good treatment with all of the electric fans that they own around my entire family since past several years, specifically from mine and those that was once used to be in my childhood house (back when my grandma used to exist). He was also a relatively good helper when it comes to installing certain of my fans, including some of my mini ceiling fans that I ever installed in the back porch of my old house (and so for that one [not so] mini ceiling fan that he also installed it in my current compact house where I'm currently settling in nowadays since almost a year ago). Overall, he was a reasonably crucial person when it comes to this in general, and so for how he somehow able to fix some broken fans with his own hands quite well too.

C. His local jobs...

Believe or not, he also had another job during he decided to settle in my hometown where I do live since I was born, which was making lots of homemade TV antennas out from metal sticks, metal sheets, and PVC pipes... FYI, he used to work in a large house that was once owned by a Chinese couple, although his legitimate wife was passed away firstly in 2014. During those times, he made lots of those TV antennas in order to sell them for relatively cheap price to the legitimate owner of that particular house. Even though he didn't earn that much bucks from those, but it was worth his job in order to satisfy some customers who used to buy those TV antennas that he made in there, and so for how he was able to find some bucks for his own mini family too...  📺📡

After the aforementioned owner of that large house was passed away in the late of 2023, he obviously lost his aforementioned job for a moment, and then he decided to switch his job into stone worker, which unfortunately earned way less amount of bucks compared to his previous job. Because of that, his mental suddenly felt out of control, which led to his disease which just caused from all of his mental stresses that he had in that exact state, unfortunately. 

D. Final moments with him...🥀

Unfortunately, this particular section clearly explains about how come he passed away due to his fatal disease that he had... Before he got hospitalized, he suddenly felt some pain on his heart (and followed by how he felt really hard to breathe most of the time), and he decided to visit the hospital by himself with his own motorcycle. Then, after he entered the emergency department for few days, he immediately got sent into surgery room in order to have some surgery to his heart. After he did the aforementioned surgery, he eventually got sent into the ICU room for additional recovery from the said surgery. However, things weren't look and sound great when it comes to recovering him in general, although he used to look quite normal at first, considered if he had to wear an oxygen respirator right in front of his nose all the time during he took a long rest in that particular room. 🏥

Things were getting much intense once he had unexpected actions during he had those of the aforementioned recoveries of his health in that room, especially about how come if he was able to recklessly REMOVE the aforementioned respirator bunch of times by himself specifically with his hands, resulting in his worse condition of his health overall. This was occurred due to the fact he wanted to go home quicker, especially about how come if he would want to see his wife and all of their beloved little children too after this particular disaster occurring on him... It also made the matters worse, every single time certain visitors from my entire family (including my mom) were attempted to consume certain food and beverages on his mouth in that exact state, he would eventually threw up numerous times, thus it led to even worse condition of himself that totally harmed his health entirely. 💉💊

After almost two weeks of him being hospitalized, my mom and I got a bad news from most of those doctors who works in there. They said if he ran into a fatal state where he had some sort of heart stroke, followed by how his blood just clumped into his brain, which they also concluded if they were totally impossible to revive him back to his former state... Not too long after my mom visited him in THAT particular deadly state (along with my dad, my uncle, my aunt, and some members of my entire family)............ they also said if he eventually passed away................ After he passed away, they brought the corpse of himself into his funeral home using a corpse car from that hospital. Lastly, I, certain members around my family, and many of his neighborhood around that village where he used to live were brought and buried his coffin contained his corpse to the graveyard nearest from their current house where they're currently settling in. 🥀⚰

My deepest condolences to that particular section of my entire family who recently lost their dad, but that also throwbacks me to those times where I suddenly lost my grandma in 2017. She also hospitalized in the same place as him, except she had completely different disease before she lost it's life. Even then, she also even got hospitalized in different hospital in around the late of 2016 before that one occurred few months later... This is also one of my highly traumatic moments in my entire life ever, especially about what if it'll also occur to both of my parents anytime and anywhere soon, considered if my mental is still not ready for basically everything that I must do in the future for now on. 🥀

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.📺

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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.

New year's eve in your hometown❓ 🎆🎇🎉🎊🎺

This time, I'll tell you about something different, which is sharing about my own story about how I watched any kinds of new year's eve in my own hometown, ranging from basic firework show that were usually held near certain buildings or places by certain small communities, until the way to how my own hometown's whole government celebrated it back in the day per each of the year in those locations that they chose for. I know if there's not much else that I could particularly say about it since the last one that I watched from the very beginning of the dreadful 2020 (oh yeah, f*** that year of pain). Without further ado, it's time for me to share my own short stories about how I watched it back in the day per each of the year, right away. 🎉🎆

Since I was born until few years later, I simply didn't watch it due to the fact I obviously didn't have a clue specifically about what was the actual purpose of how everybody set their own fireworks together (most commonly were the roman candle sticks) in their own places every single of the aforementioned eve itself every beginning of the year. Until somewhere in the very beginning of 2009 (I guess), I was able to watch the said eve itself due to I suddenly heard all of that firework explosions on the sky which caused me to wake up from my sleep, and then I decided to go out from my childhood house and visited one of the nearest places that had one of those simple firework shows (no matter if I was yawning severely or not), for this case it was the bank nearest from my childhood house. Everything particularly about it was really basic when it comes to how some people set those roman candle sticks casually like so in there in particular, and this was occurred repeatedly 4 times per each of the year (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012).🎉🎆🎺

Example of the new year's eve in my hometown, held directly by my whole hometown's government (judging by that concert stage at the back)... This was taken in very late of 2017 (or new year's eve 2018), right before they set all of those fireworks on the top of that sports hall there...

In 2013 and all the way to 2020 (except 2015*), I decided to watch the said eve itself in completely different locations, yet it was held directly by my whole hometown's local government, instead of just watching certain small communities with their own basic eve parties like I used to. Sure, I decided to do so because the firework show that they usually provided with them were way much superior compared to what I watched it per each of the year in prior, thanks to how they usually rented certain "pyro" enthusiasts and experts in order to set many of those roman candle boxes in one (yes, those boxes, not the usual stick ones), resulting in much greater show of themselves instead of the casual ones like everybody would usually do every new year's eve... There were 3 locations specifically about how they celebrated them, which those places were:

1. Town center of my own hometown,
2. In front of my whole hometown's main government office, and
3. In front of the sports hall of my hometown (which they built the place itself back in 2016)

The first two following years, I watched the event itself specifically in the town center of my own hometown (2013 and 2014). The next two following years, I watched the event itself specifically in front of my whole hometown's main government office (2015 and 2016). Meanwhile for the last 4 following years, I watched the event itself specifically in front of the sports hall of my hometown (2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020)... These were definitely my best moments when it comes to how I celebrated the new year's eve by watching the said eve itself per each of the year, even I was able to record all of that amazing fireworks show with my old generic digital camera and my own phones, although I only uploaded few of them somewhere in part of my own social medias that I own. Of course, unlike how I celebrated it back in 2012 or prior in that particular location, I must dealt with the situation of the place around themselves, especially about how I literally dealt with massive amount of crowd who watched both music concert and firework shows respectively, otherwise I would pass out if I wouldn't strong and careful enough against this exact situation (especially when the firework show itself was over, and so for leaving the location itself). That particular crowd problems aside, it was really fun experience of me watching it in general per each of the year........... until the dreadful pandemic began after the last one that they celebrated.

* means I had a total health problem, but I couldn't tell you about the aforementioned health problem itself...

After the last one that I watched, there were no official announcement directly from themselves due to the pandemic that was occurred for roughly 2 years (including the car free night near them), even if the pandemic itself was over. For now, there is no aforementioned event from themselves anymore, which means I simply don't bother to watch it in person, no matter if I do bother to check it or not (even if I also check it on the certain social media account admins of my whole hometown as well)... Even I ever checked the place where they used to celebrate it before, and it turned out if there were no actual event itself from themselves. So, that was basically it, no more for those of the said events directly from themselves in general (AFAIK), apart from many of those basic eve parties that certain small communities with their own amount of budget usually do in certain locations outside those ones that our whole hometown's local government used to celebrate it specifically like so back in those days per each of the year. Even if both of my parents literally warned me in order not to watch it because it's so pointless to check it anyway (considering if I recently live in much further location between both my current house and those locations where they used to do so), they both also told me if I'd recklessly doing so no matter what, I would ended up in any of those unexpected technical difficulties specifically on the streets every single night.

Well, there you have it for my own short story particularly about the new year's eve in my own hometown in general, ranging from the basic ones that were usually held by certain small communities in their own locations, until all the way to how my whole hometown's government used to celebrate it specifically like so in those locations that they chose. If you have your own story particularly about this from your own hometown (or even your place where you currently settling in), feel free to share your own short story in your comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could particularly say about this, and as always, thanks for reading this special article...🎉🎆🎇🎊🎺

Location of my hometown (in case you've wondering): Tulungagung, East Java, Indonesia

Summary of the SCAMS that I experienced...💸💸💸💸💸

 "If there's something that is too good to be true, then it totally isn't true..."

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As every wise people said, yes, that's basically the one and the only sentence that is related to what I'm explaining on this particular article this time, which is literally explaining about any kind of scams that I literally fell for each of them, mainly for the ones that I simply lost my money over those scammers... I already explained about few of the scams that I exposed from my two separate article that I made just earlier. Now, I think it's time for me to reveal more of the scams that I also experienced from the past (including the ones that I already exposed from my previous articles about them), yet I will reveal the initial names of each of the culprits who scammed myself in each of the occurrence as well, particularly from the ones that were occurred from our country. Without further ado, let's take a look at my overall summary of what kind of scams that I fell on each of them, shall we?

1. Investment scam...💸

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Culprit name: B-L (which technically it was one of the fake B-L accounts that I encountered on Instagram)

This was technically my first scam that I ever experienced, which was I got scammed by a random investment scam by one of those counterfeit Instagram accounts that was technically a fake account nicknamed of that one popular entrepreneur in our country, which was B-L... I discovered this particular account due to the fact my mom literally pointed at this particular account in order to solve certain financial problems that we both were dealing in those times, then we both decided to take some calls with the fake B-L. Then, he decided to do some "rules" in order to do his own f****** thing by transferring approximately around IDR 700.000 to him. After I transferred that particular amount of money that I transferred into him yet I had some conversation between myself and him through the chat, and of course you probably guessed it... He literally blocked us right after few moments later! So, that was it, and obviously there was no way to track that particular scammer anymore.

2. Scammed again over a steal price of a "mega" fancy 💻...💸

Culprit name: M-I-M (which basically it was one of the counterfeit Instagram online marketplace account who "sells" certain devices [i.e. flagship 📱, 💻, 📷, etc.])

As what I explained in one of the said post that literally explained about this particular scam, I literally fell for this particular scam due to my native stupidity that I did in those times, yet this was occurred by myself during the time that particular ancient 13" Dell 💻 that I stupidly bought from a legit online marketplace suddenly had it's own LCD screen died... Well, for some idiotic reason, I literally had an idea by "buying" another "replacement" for it from that one "seller" on Instagram for unbelievably steal price, which was from M-I-M. I literally looked at "her" gallery of what kind of 💻s that "she sells", then I decided to "pick" that particular fancy Apple 15" 💻. Before I "pick" that particular 💻, I previously looked at various other 💻s that "she sells" them online, until I decided to pick that one 💻 that I previously mentioned earlier... So, I decided to take some chat on M-I-M of certain things related to it, until I transferred approximately around IDR 500.000 to "her" through a someone's bank account instead of "her" name (which sounds like "she" hijacked that particular person's bank account)... After few moments later, I felt something suspicious behind it, because the fact right after M-I-M contacted myself through a chat, "she" said something to myself by contacting another person in order to continue my "order" of that particular 💻 that I wanted, but of course after M-I-M said so, "she" blocked me yet I simply lost the said amount of money that I transferred into "her"! Well, that concluded if I got scammed by one of those Instagram counterfeit online marketplaces, so I learned the lesson for totally NOT looking at one of those for ever.

During the time I had some conversation between myself and M-I-M, I checked the address of "her store", and it turned out if the address of "her place" itself just led to the empty lawn that was located somewhere in Riau, Indonesia (which was definitely fake as "her" f***)... As for the said scammer itself, yes, it was one of those online bandits that pretended to be an online marketplace who sells certain items (for this case, it was certain electronic devices that I mentioned earlier (i.e. 📱, 💻, 📷, etc.), but as soon as you "ordered" one of those items, you ended up in further problem if the item itself that you "ordered" had some issues for certain reasons that they usually tell to you, but of course it's completely NOT true at all (i.e., got stuck in some sort of customs, those items are black-marketed, etc.)...... This particular scammer of the said type wasn't only the one that I got scammed by, it's because the fact I saw another victim who got scammed by another one of those online bandits of the same kind, but under a different "store". He lost his money approximately over IDR 126.000.000!!! Definitely the jackpot for the scammer itself that he stole that much amount of money of what the particular victim itself transferred that amount of money to him!! HOLY F****** S***!!!!!! Not even any cops from our country were able to track down those scammer bandits like this, including myself with that scammer that I got scammed by.

3. Didn't win a giveaway from bunch of those mails...📨💸❓

Culprit name: E-S (a company, but I have no clue whether if this particular company is a legit company or not)

Another sort of scam that I experienced, yet I also explained already in my titular post that explained about this particular occurrence, which was how I didn't win a so-called giveaway that they "promoted" through those mails that I received from that particular company. In order to do it, I had to buy some random cheapo items that were literally costed several times cheaper than what they literally "offered" through every single mails that I received, then I decided to sent them back numerous times to them in order to win it, yet I also transferred a lot of money to them in order to buy every single items that they "offered" through those of the said mails... Until the fact I and my mom wasted a lot of money over this particular crap, so we both decided to stop it, even though they clearly said if we both almost won the grand prize of it.

4. Almost bought the thing that I wanted for much cheaper price, but...

Culprit name: L-J-S

This was occurred from one of the legit online marketplaces that I ever used, because I almost scammed by that one seller who sells one of the things that I wanted (for this case, it was some sort of so-called mini air cooler thing). I looked at the particular thing itself on that particular online marketplace, then I came across one of them that costed WAY cheaper than the average price of the said item that I wanted. So, I had some conversation between myself and that particular seller who sells it nicknamed L-J-S, then I placed an order and paying it using cash-on-delivery system for it... Right after I ordered it, I decided to take a look at the reviews about what kind of the item that he sent to any buyers who bought his items, and I was shocked if this particular seller sent them his f****** random items instead of what he literally listed for how cheap it was! Then, after few days later, I got a call from a random courier if he delivered the item that I ordered for, but I decided to reject it by simply not receive and pay it for obvious reasons. After that, the thing that I was ordered just went lost, yet his store just gone immediately as well upon this occurred... Well, at least I didn't scam by this one anyway, even if the price of the thing itself was way cheaper than the average cost of the said item itself that I wanted either way.

5. Almost "won" a "giveaway" from a SMS, but...📨

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Culprit name: Unknown

🆗, even bunch of the junk SMS in any form of frauds did count for this, because I almost fell for one of those scams if I won a giveaway through a junk SMS that the random scammer sent to me. It literally led to a wacky Blogspot page if I won a "giveaway" from a legit online marketplace, but truly is NOT true at all, it's because NONE of the legit online marketplaces did able to do that either way... Even though I obviously don't care about all of those junk SMS scams in general, I was once almost fell for one of them by simply looking at the wacky Blogspot page itself after I tapped the URL link on the said SMS itself that I received, until I had some conversation between myself and that particular scammer. The scammer itself literally had an obvious rule in order to "win" it, by transferring some money and reloading my phone's credit in order to do so... During the time I reloaded my phone's credit in a small cell phone store nearest from my current home, the owner of the cell phone store itself taught to myself in order to avoid it at all costs. He taught to me right after I almost reloading my phone's credit for approximately around IDR 300.000 for that. So, that saved me from this particular scam, although his workmate of the same cell phone store itself also received the same SMS junk scam if he also won a "giveaway", but he simply ignore it either way, then he deleted it off.

I even received even more of the same junk SMS scams like this (including the investment scams that I mentioned earlier), although I was able to do some conversation between me and any of those anonymous culprits, I annoyed themselves instead in various ways until they just simply blocked me... As of nowadays, I rarely receive any kinds of junk SMS scams like one of those though.

6. Online "affiliating academy" scam...💸

Culprit name: K-W-A (an entrepreneur, but I got scammed by the "affiliating academy" website of it)

In order to solve my major financial problems that I dealt in those days, but I just ended up in another scam, although it was possibly the least amount of my own money that I simply lost on it... This was also my second time my mom led to this particular scam without noticing the obvious perilous thing itself in the first place, because she simply shared a video to myself about how to earn money quicker by affiliating something through that "affiliating academy" website authored by that particular entrepreneur, nicknamed K-W-A. I checked a ton of videos of him showing his pride if he literally got a lot of money (I had no clue if it's true or not), and I was simply fell for it........ Until I ran into a problem if I had to follow some rules to do it in the website itself, I must transfer IDR 99.000 to K-W-A's bank account to unlock all of the so-called premium features in there (which I doubt it if it was his real bank account)... Unfortunately though, of course there was NO reaction from it at all if I actually got registered to do it further, even IF I already signed my main Google account on that too! Even if I also tried to transfer that particular amount of my own money to him like thrice times in order to unlock it, but it DIDN'T EVEN WORK!!! F***

Well then, there you have it for my overall summary of the dreaded scams that I experienced, being 4 of them were the ones that I caught by simply losing some of my own money over 4 of those scammers who did so to me... As every wise people said, if there's something that is too good to be true, then it is truly not true at all. Even though I got scammed 4 times like what I clearly stated here, I already learned the lesson for NOT fall for any kind of scams. As always, pay your FULL attention in order to avoid any kinds of scams that may happen sometime in the future, and thanks for reading this mega crucial article.

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.

Long days with my old Samsung laptop is finally over...

It's been a while since I didn't make any new Blogspot posts lately, so I decided to tell you about what was going on with me with that cheap Samsung laptop that I bought from almost 8 years ago. That cheap laptop worked just fine, until all of it's own flaws that I encountered in last few years of service. Until in the late of 2020, that old laptop just went wrong with it's own screen that looked like this:

White screen...

Yes... White! White! And again, WHITE! That's how my old laptop's screen would actually look like as of today. Before I'm gonna tell you about the problem itself, let's take a retrospect about this old laptop that I got from almost 8 years ago until that problem occurred. Here's my story about it, right away:

1. General 💻

In case you've wondering about the brand and the model of the particular laptop that I bought from a local electronic store in around 8 years ago, it's just a Samsung with model number is 300E4V-A01 (according to it's own box), yet it has it's own respective specifications that mentioned below here:

• Processor: Intel Celeron 847 ("Celery!"-Garret Claridge)
• Screen size: 14"
• RAM: Only 2 GB
• Storage: 320 GB of HDD
• Color: Black

I bought this laptop from back then in order to replace my very first laptop that I ever owned, which was that Acer Aspire 47xx laptop with Intel Pentium processor on it. That laptop got it's own weird problem, such as constant BSODs that occurred many times, yet it's own BSOD itself only lasted just few seconds before it shuts itself off every time, instead of stayed there like it should be until I simply remove the battery or unplug it off... I also felt guilty at that time for buying it instead of fixing the Acer, it's definitely due to that Acer was fixable yet upgradeable, since there were no physical damage on itself from what one of the sellers in the electronic store told me in order to do so. Unfortunately though, I took another way to solve that problem by simply exchanged it with the cheap Samsung laptop with weak "Celery!" processor for roughly almost the same price as that Acer that I bought it back in 2009 from the same electronic store.

2. Performance and results 💻

In the early days of me with this laptop, it performed just exactly the same like my old Acer, except with minor differences. One of the main examples is the way how it's own audio enhancements has an additional feature called SoundAlive, while the Acer didn't (or did it though). Other than that, here are my lists about performance and results about my old Samsung laptop through the years since I bought it until it broke in the late of 2020.

• It has Windows 7 64-bit version installed on this laptop, which sounded a bit overkill to me. Because it has a 2 GB of RAM, this and my old Acer didn't do any multitasking with ease.
• Playing any audio files on it is fine, no matter what kind of audio programs that I open on it.
• Playing any video files is okay, but it does stutter while tried to play any videos that has 720p video quality or higher.
• Typing or making any Office related stuffs (such as documents in Microsoft Office Word, presentations in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, and so on) is on and off. Sometimes any of the programs in there just crashed by itself, even they're just 2007 versions that installed on there (well, at least they had an autosave feature when it occurs).
• Editing photos with certain programs (such as PhotoScape, Adobe Photoshop, and so on) is also on and off. While most of them do work decently, but on the other hand, sometimes they also tend to crash while it's running on most of the time.
• Video editing on it was absolutely terrible. Because it had really weak "Celery" processor and RAM that it had, that's obviously why. I tested the VSDC on it, and it performs... really poorly on it, and it actually wanted to crash it while it's running.
• Playing games on it is okay. However, there were good old 64 GameHouse games in it, which most of them wouldn't work for Windows 7 or newer anyway. I played some good old games on it, such as Plants vs. Zombies (of course), Puzzle Express, Airstrike (Divo Games), Collapse Crunch, or even NES games through a NES emulator program (which was the FCEUX). All of them did work just okay as what I expected.
• I was once installed a Google Earth on it, and it performed just less than decent. It did crashed for multiple times though.
• Browsing anything on it with certain browsers (such as Firefox, Google Chrome) was between on par and subpar sides. Sometimes they tend to crash or gone unresponsive if there are too much background apps running, such as that Avira Antivirus that was once installed on there, which caused the whole system to lag very badly.
• It had a BSOD just once, with code: Kernel Memory In-Page Error. This was occurred due to I tried to play anything with sounds on it, then suddenly the system froze yet it went to the aforementioned BSOD itself. At least the BSOD stayed there until I unplug it off.

3. When it broke...💻

Since this laptop was cheaply made compared to my Acer (I think), it started to come apart by it's own in 2017. Started of by one of it's own hinges is broken by itself. Even though I dropped it by accident wasn't the reason about why it broke, I didn't even know about why it occurred... Then, the damage on it was slowly increased overtime, so I just "fixed" it by taping the broken part on it with bunch of tapes. Again, even with tapes on it, the bottom-left of the bezel also got damaged very easily due to the pressure every time I open and close it. Until in the end of 2020, the damage on the hinge itself was caused the screen went all white by itself. Because of that, I felt so worried for that, yet the fact I also broke my Dell that I mentioned in my aforementioned post of it too in the same year.

4. Tried to repair that s**t... Plus my new replacement... 😁

During that white screen problem occurred, I tried to repair that laptop to 3 different computer repairmen. First, it was one of my old neighborhoods, then followed by the same computer repairmen who tried to fix my Dell, and another computer repairmen who works outside my hometown. Unfortunately, NONE of them dared to repair it due to severe damage that it had. Here are the reasons why:

• One of my neighborhood simply refused to repair it due to severe damage that it had, even I waited for at least a week to do so.
• The same computer repairmen who tried to fix my Dell earlier just refused right off the bat, due to severe damage that it had, again.
• Lastly, another computer repairmen who works outside my hometown. I brought it to a small cell phone store nearest from my current house, and I asked to the owner who have a phone number of the computer repairmen itself by showing the damage of my old laptop that it had through a video call. Then, he brought it into the computer repairmen place itself until they checked the condition of it, and... Bah! They also didn't repair it due to severe damage that it had, once again.

Well, yeah... Double trouble for me! Not only the fact my old Dell laptop broke, I also broke this old Samsung laptop too. Until I decided to buy an actual new laptop from a typical laptop store in my hometown, which is this one!

Yes! It's my brand new laptop... Which is the Lenovo V14-ADA. Although it has really expensive price to buy one right off the bat, I decided to buy it anyway using money installment system for it, until it reaches the total amount of price of it. Here's my specifications of it:

• Processor: AMD Athlon 3020e with Radeon Graphics
• Screen size: 14"
• RAM: 8 GB
• Storage: 256 GB of SSD
• Color: Grey

Although this performs a lot faster than my old Samsung did yet it has newer Windows 10 activated, it did have it's own flaws for a bit, such as connecting into my home Wi-Fi router is tactical. Sometimes it says "No internet access" right after I turned it on, even though my Wi-Fi clearly has it's own internet access (well, if it works though), until I unplug my Wi-Fi router off and plugging it back in for at least 10 seconds. Other than that, it works just well thanks to it's own performance that it has. Right now, I keep searching the simple video editor that almost exactly the same way as the YouCut or Video Guru (both by InShot) would be... 😁

So, what happened to that old Samsung laptop then? Well, I just simply don't do anything to it due to severe damage that it has that caused those three different repairmen were totally refused to repair that messed up thing. I'm going to plan to rescue it's own HDD out to use it as an external HDD, and so for my Dell too (unless the Dell's LCD screen magically works by itself now, but due to it's own flaws that I discovered, so yeah...). And there you have it for my long days with my old Samsung laptop is finally, over... I'm not gonna say anything that much to that old cheap thing, because it's own physical flaws that it has. I know if there were lot of my files and data in there, but whatever... Unless I have an external SATA cable and external HDD's casing in order to do it, so. Anyway, that's it from what I can say to that old Samsung laptop after around 8 years of service with myself from my first time obtained it to the time when it's own LCD screen went all white. Thanks for reading this post, and hope you can pay the attention related to this post.

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

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

1. General

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

2. Results

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

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

3. Flaws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My failed YouTube electric fan videos...

"THE VIDEO DIDN'T SAVE!!!"-Plainrock124

Based on that quote by that very popular YouTuber of smashing stuff there, I'm sure you may know about the annoying bits of my YouTube channel as well. For example, my YouTube channel of fans, such as I got interrupted by the owner of the place for not recording their own fans (especially for public places), the device that I've used it for recording them just had some problems on it, and so on... So, I referred them here as my failed YouTube electric fan videos. Without further ado with them, here are few short stories about my failed YouTube electric fan videos from the past until now...

Started off by this video that I took back in the late of 2013, which was a video of bunch of National industrial ceiling fans in a former large bookstore. Although I briefly recorded them, I got interrupted by one of the employees for not recording them. As you can see at the end of this video here, that's how she interrupted myself for not doing so. Well, at least I made a greatest hits remake video of those fans in 2015, yet the store itself was swapped into a large electronic store.

Then, in 2015, I was once attempted to record this obscure industrial ceiling fan at a drugstore. Unfortunately though, I got interrupted by the owner for not recording it, although the fan itself was turned off. Which means, I failed to record that anyway.

Then, I was attempted to record a greatest hits remake video of these old KDK industrial ceiling fans that I recorded back in 2015. Unfortunately though, the phone that I used for recording them both (which was my mom's Oppo Neo 7) got hanged, then the video itself didn't save. This was occurred in 2016, and I didn't know what happened to those fans, because the place that contains those just closed down recently.

And, one more example of my failed YouTube's electric fan video was this video, right on the top here. Even though clearly it's a normal video to you, that single jump cut on this video is the obvious reason about why I can't take a closer look of the other fans in that place besides the ones that are shown on the video... Okay, I'm gonna tell you about the story behind it: I was having some religion trip in various places in Central Java, Indonesia. Then, during I visited in Demak grand mosque in Demak (Central Java, Indonesia), I had an opportunity to record various of industrial ceiling fans in that mosque, including the ones that are installed inside just like on the video... I was recording several of industrial ceiling fans inside that mosque with my own phone, then while I was taking closer look at one of the fans that are installed near the imam's place, suddenly there was a person told me for not recording them for obvious reasons. So, I decided to pause the video recording to avoid further problems to it, then I continued recording the video from the far away to avoid that again, and that's it.

There are more of my failed YouTube electric fan videos, but I'm not sure if I remembered them besides the one that I listed them in here. Anyway, hopefully you can pay the attention about why this happens in various place while I'm doing it, and thanks for reading this post.

Shawn K (S&M Destruction)... What's so special to you about them both?

Shawn K's channel cover as of 2017 (since they both moved into his current house)

Based on one of my post that I made earlier, which was You => stuff destruction videos on YouTube..., I'm gonna tell you about one YouTube channel of that genre, which is in my opinion, is one of my most enjoyable ones that I ever watch. Until now, I always watch their videos as my stress reliever. Even though I also watch some stuff destruction videos by other channels that are way popular than those two guys that I mentioned here, I do sometimes watch those two guys's destruction videos for sure... So, I'm gonna tell you about what's so special to me about the channel itself of their destruction videos.

1. General

Shawn (wields a hammer) & Matt (wields a hatchet) destroying a vintage dishwasher in that "Vintage Dishwasher Destruction" video... Credits belong to the YouTube channel itself...

His channel's name is Shawn K, previously it was known as ssmmkk2 (according to few of audiences who watched them with that name before they both changed it into Shawn K as for now, and also according to it's own channel's link as well). It's also known as S&M Destruction, which obviously means Shawn and Matt Destruction. No channel's description about it though, and they both made this YouTube channel of stuff destruction genre since they uploaded that Santa Gas video back in 2007. Then, they both uploaded more of their both videos like 120VAC Hooked Up To A 6 1/2" Sub, Destroying A Keyboard, Fun With Computer Fans, and so on until these days. This channel also used to known for destroying many stuffs in Matt's trailer park (sometimes in a garage like most of his videos, especially for earlier ones), until they both moved out from that place into their current house in 2017 due to there was something went wrong with Matt's trailer park's restrictions. Until now, they both still making those kinds of videos on Matt's current house, but it's unknown whether they both still making them or not due to various reasons.

2. Explanations

Just like what I said in You => stuff destruction videos on YouTube..., I enjoyed this channel due to my usual stuffs about how I ended up enjoying these types of videos that looks like this channel's would be. Back in 2013, during I was wandering by several electric fan videos by various channels on YouTube those days, I "suddenly" watch some fan destruction videos by various channels, and this channel is also no exception. It's because they both already uploaded two fan destruction videos like these:

Then, during I watched Garret Claridge's "Removing" the Ceiling Fan, with OUR HEADS in 2014, this channel also upload their own ceiling fan destruction video in that year, which was this one:

At least they both didn't destroy any vintage fans anyway, and they both also made two sequels of their both ceiling fan destructions in 2015. One was the one that was mounted on the ground, then got destroyed using thermite and pickaxe, and the other one was the same method that almost like this one above here, but with some Barney dolls involved... Okay, back to the reason about why I enjoyed this channel. Since they uploaded those three ceiling fan destruction videos that they both made, I'm pretty much enjoyed by the way how they both destroying things with their tools that they both prepared for this channel's purpose. With their both's yellow-black sledgehammer that they owned since those two Destroying A CRT TV videos that they both made in 2011, this channel becomes very iconic for destroying stuffs and entertain every viewers at the same time, such as myself. From what I remembered, this channel also have several funny moments that happens in most of their both's destruction videos. So, here are the funny moments about them that I remembered:

• Most of destruction videos that they both made involved some of their own laughs for a moment for various reasons. For instance, in Magnavox TV Destruction, Shawn laughed after Matt broke the CRT TV's screen with a hammer. Also, in Dell Computer Destruction 4, they just laughed after Shawn knocked the whole computer set down, during the computer itself got BSOD due to he pulled a cable that was connected into a hard drive with a plier before.
• In Cordless Phone Destruction, Matt just got hurt and said "AAAWW!!!", during he tried to broke it open and stepped it over. Although Shawn also said that due to he got hit by a piece of plastic that came from the unit itself during Matt tried to chop it off into pieces with a hatchet.
• In Dishwasher Destruction, Shawn just tripped during he tried to mess around with the dishwasher's front panel itself that being destroyed by Matt. It also happened again later in Payphone Destruction, during he tried to pull the payphone itself, then he just tripped that caused Matt laughed so hard.
• In the later part of Microwaving A USB Hub, Matt threw a microwave's plate then it shattered into many pieces, and they said "Oops!". It also happened again later in Jack In The Box In The Microwave, Matt just simply dropped the microwave's plate off the camera, then he laughed hard.
• In Elmo vs Lawn Mower, Shawn just got hit by an Elmo that being spun with a drill that Matt had fun with them. It also happened again later in Front Load Washer Destruction, during Matt tried to "remove" that knob of the machine's itself with a mini sledgehammer, the thing itself just flew straight off into Shawn that caused him got hurt.
• In Toilet Destruction, this was where Matt laughed so ridiculously, yet constantly in most of the parts, especially during they both tried to break the toilet itself.
• In Dryer Destruction, Matt just laughed so hard during he tried to roll Shawn inside a dryer's drum, and it actually did happen that caused him hurt for a little.
• In the same destruction video where Shawn got hurt by a front load washing machine's knob, Matt just laughed because Shawn had some "dance" on the top of the machine itself.
• In Small CRT TV In The Microwave, during they both tried to destroy the TV itself, they decided to finish it off with some firecrackers. The second one was the best; that caused the microwave's door blew off straight into the camera and they both laughed so hard.

3. Advantages and disadvantages

a. Advantages

• They both have a bunch of tools to destroy stuffs. Ranging from normal tools (such as few hammers, sledgehammer, axe, baseball bat, etc), to power tools (such as drill, chainsaw [only seen once], reciprocating saw, band saw, mitre saw, etc).
• They both have some stuffs to set them on fire, such as lighter, propane torch, firecrackers, thermite, and certain spray applicators that makes a homemade flamethrower (such as deodorant, bug spray, etc).
• They both have their own typical humour that causes every audience who watches their destruction videos gets entertained yet laughed rather than depressed or making some hate comments on them both (although this isn't the case if they still hating them, sometimes). Especially for Matt's laughs in most of the videos.
• Their destruction videos always have a typical intro of their destruction videos of their respective items themselves, since that TV/VCR Destruction video, except for extra stuffs.
• Shawn has a knowledge about electronic stuffs, so there's no question if he knows about how he and Matt destroys stuffs or have fun with electronics, such as certain videos like Small 12V Transformer Burnout, Fun With MOT, and so on.
• Doll House Fire is the most popular video that they both uploaded.

b. Disadvantages

• No channel's description at all, just blank.
• It only have subscribers less than 100K (but it's okay to me).
• Matt doesn't have his personal YouTube channel.
• Most of the videos only got so few views, especially very old videos when Shawn only recorded the footage with his old analog camcorder.
• The greatest disadvantage among all of them, which is how they both don't upload destruction videos quite often. It happens since late of 2017, where they both already moved into their new location in order to make more of their both's advanced destruction videos.

4. See also

• Plainrock124
• Garret Claridge (Bit identical to Shawn K but he also focuses into audio equipments)
• You => stuff destructions on YouTube...

So, there you have it for how much specialty about me with those two guys that is well-known for destroying stuffs, including electric fans that I mentioned before. I don't think if I will make another one of this kind of post about specific YouTube channel like this, though... And that's all from what I can say about this channel, and thanks for reading this post.