unknown scam phone calls...(plus extras)

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

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

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

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

Dealing with electric fans with ball bearings...

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

my KDK box fan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a. Not-so-annoying 👌

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

b. Mid 🙁

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

c. Annoying 🤬

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

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

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

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

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

i'm addicted to "braindead" social mobile apps, but...🤳

Before I explain about those social mobile apps that I classified them like so, you may ask me particularly about it, "Do you ever use certain (braindead) popular social apps, especially for those video sharing social medias that are exists these days?" Well, of course I recently do. Unfortunately, I'm addicted to certain of those "braindead" apps out there, especially for any kinds of video sharing social medias that are recently popular, which even beats up certain other social medias that were popular in it's days before these "braindead" apps existed (for this case, YouTube and certain Meta apps, respectively). Without further ado, I do spot two of the "braindead" video sharing social mobile apps that everybody around the world always use them both recently, specifically for everybody from our country. 📱

A. The two "braindead" social medias...🤳

1. TikTok

First off, of course TikTok is being one of them that I classified it as one of those "braindead" video sharing social medias that is recently popular these days. Not only the fact everybody from our country always use this "Tok" by uploading their prides in there (they usually upload certain short videos with remixed copyrighted music tracks), it also has certain other features that makes everybody just totally fascinated with this "Tok", being one of them is how it recently has it's own online marketplace, which also beats up any other online marketplace that are existed out there, thanks to it's own offering to buy any items from there for much cheaper price compared to what the other online marketplaces would offer in their respective platforms (including shipping, but it depends about which item that you will buy though).

As for how I'm particularly using it, I signed my main Google account in here, and uploaded whatever contents that I own in there for various purposes, ranging from archival purposes until all the way to pure fun purposes (because why not). Even if the views on there has less than 100K from all of my contents that I uploaded in there, but I was able to upload one of my videos in there that has more than 10K views! Although I did all of that effort by uploading them, that doesn't comparable by how it has a feature in order to invite friends to "earn money" from it, which I simply don't bother to do it for obvious reasons (if it presents though, because it rarely appears anyway). Lastly, for all kinds of contents that I search in there, I usually search certain contents that I usually seen them on any other social medias that I ever used just before. Even if I'm able to search them, it occasionally shows many of inaccurate results that doesn't match particularly with any of keywords that I exactly typed on it though.

For the online marketplace section that this "Tok" app offers, I ever purchased a random cheap item from it that costed IDR 18.000,-, including the shipping price (which was actually free shipping, fortunately). It has nothing to do with something related to both of my YouTube channels that I own, but I was able to purchase it for very first time on it using cash-on-delivery payment system. As for how I search any items that I want in there, it is somewhat accurate particularly with any of keywords that I exactly typed on it, unlike how I search majority of videos on it.

2. Snack Video

Another one of those "braindead" video sharing social medias that is recently popular these days, which is the Snack Video. This particular "yellow chocolate donut" app by Joyo CS (or it's internal name of the app itself also known as "Kwai Bulldog") also offers the same features almost in similar fashion like that "Tok" app that I mentioned just earlier. Unlike that "Tok" app, it has partially simpler features apart from watching any random contents (mainly videos) by any users out there, because this obviously doesn't have a built-in online marketplace like what that particular "Tok" app did. Instead, it has certain other features besides that one common practice that usually appears in one of these apps that I also explained just earlier. Those are the mini-games, watching ads to earn some coins for approximately 30 seconds in order to get some coins, and even a limited time "lottery" to win a latest iPhone (which is 99,9% highly unlikely to win it in there anyway).

As for how I'm particularly using it, for some reason I signed my other Google account in here instead of my main one, and uploaded whatever contents that I own in almost exact reasons just like what I did with that "Tok" app. As for the other features that this app offers, I even checked in for at least a month in order to get many coins as I can, thus it eventually converted into IDR currency in there every single day, albeit it only costed just IDR 4,- per 200 coins. Just like the "Tok" app, I usually search any kinds of contents that I usually seen them on my other social medias that I ever used, except I only search any of them specifically from our country, because if I tried to search anything outside from our country, it usually doesn't match with any of my keywords that I search on it.

B. Problems with any of these "braindead" apps...🤳

Even though if I recently installed both of those apps in my current phone, there are even more kinds of apps that I found particularly on Play Store, ranging from another one of those video sharing social media apps, games (mainly slot machine games and gambling games), survey apps, novel apps, and so on... Well, after I checked the reviews from each of the apps (or games) that shares this particular trait when it comes specifically about how to earn some money from any of them, several of the people said if either any of the apps or games BARELY withdraw money from any of them, even if they tried to withdraw them LESS than approximately IDR 50.000,- to (mostly) their popular e-wallet apps that they own. They also even said if the withdrawal process on most of the aforementioned apps or games also don't work at all, thus completely wasting their phone's data quota. 📱📶

As for how I ever dealt with one of those apps or games out there, unfortunately I ever installed one of those cheap games that they claimed if they were able to earn some money by simply playing it (for this case, I installed one of those crappy slot machine games). I played the game itself, and I even watch any random video ads in order to get some points, thus the points that I collected there were converted into IDR currency automatically by itself. Until the moment of truth where I tried to withdraw certain amount of money from it to one of my e-wallet apps that I installed particularly in my phone............ it simply didn't work. Seriously, it didn't even withdraw anything even if I put my correct phone number on it that is associated between the game and the aforementioned e-wallet app themselves. So that was it, I ended up uninstalling it off later on. 📱🎰➡❌💰

Another experience that I ever dealt on one of these kinds of apps or games like so (even though you probably ever experienced by one of these, even if I did on one of the two video sharing social apps that I mentioned just earlier), I had to do some sort of daily check-in tier system in one of those apps to get more points (which usually coins) for at least a month. After I successfully did the first phase of it for at least a month of me particularly doing so, suddenly the points of themselves were got lowered overtime, which makes it even harder to earn them entirely. This is possibly due to I didn't even invite any of my friends (or some people that I know out there) in order to use the exact kinds of apps that I used purposely for this to get even more points than just doing it all by myself, but I also felt suspicious if I already suspected if all kinds of process specifically like those were known as one of those popular schemes that most of the people would know when they're dealing with certain of those... It also makes the matters absurdly WORSE by the fact how most of the content creators on YouTube out there just dedicated for making their own tutorial videos of how to earn some money using ANY of those apps or games that they reviewed, which ironically resulting in how they got their own genuine YouTube revenue in their hands with ease thanks to their contents of themselves. On the other hand, it's also a polar opposite for most of the people who tried to use any of those apps or games that most of the said YouTubers taught at each of them per each of the people who tried to do so, which ended up wouldn't work as what they expected for. 📱🎞➡💵❓

Before I wrap up this article, something that is off-topic related to one of these apps (or even other types of apps out there), you may recognize if I mention ads on majority of those apps or games that I mentioned just before. Not just regular video ads, there are some sort of interactive ads that are present in any of them. Pretty sure if I ever explained this kind of topic on some of my other articles about annoying ads that I ever encountered, including the ones that I usually found from one of the mobile games that I usually play these days (of course I don't classify it as one of those "braindead" apps when it comes about how it has a feature to earn some money from it, but it BLATANTLY ISN'T; except it didn't present once I did an in-app purchase of something on it, which automatically removes any random ads from it)... Okay, back to those interactive ads that I was talking about. I always sick by any of those ads that mostly appeared alongside those of the video ads, and I'm concerned particularly about two types of them that bothered me the most. One of them is the popular mobile video game interactive ads, even if I was able to close it thanks to the "X" button that usually appears after few seconds of me WWP-ing (watching, waiting, and playing) it... Another one is the most annoying one that I ever dealt, which I'm spotting about how the F*** that one popular random online marketplace MASS SPAM their interactive ads, including by how they also added them on those kinds of apps (or games) sporadically like so. It also makes the matters worse if most of the ads that they advertise has NO access for closing it apart from the fact you can only ACCESS on the said marketplace itself! Grow up, that one online marketplace's developers and ad spreader m***********s! This is NOT YOUR way for making it way popular than any of those "braindead" apps or games that are existed out there! S*** 😡

Note: Excluding YouTube video ads from themselves (either you can or can't skip them), those ads from the aforementioned online marketplace also appears quite often on other kinds of apps or games that I installed. Even if their simple banner ads are commonly appear on them (which you can ignore them anyway, unless you just accidently tap one of those), but sometimes their dreaded interactive ads are also appears alongside with them, menacingly.

Well, there you have it for how I recently addicted with any of those "braindead" apps, yet majority of them are popular on mobile platforms. Actually, there are even more kinds of apps besides those two of the specific apps that I mentioned above (including games), yet several of them are also still available at the moment in either Android's Play Store or iOS's App Store. However, majority of them has downsides when it comes specifically about how to earn some money from each of those apps (or games). Yes, you can earn some money from any of them, but it is actually difficult as you expect, unless if you must do certain tasks in order to earn them with ease. Unfortunately though, most of them just don't seem to work as what they advertised, which resulting by how most of the people literally dealing with all kinds of technical difficulties from any of those apps (or games) in order to make it work, especially about how absurdly HARD they tried to withdraw some money from each of them, or on the worst cases, it BARELY doing so. Again, I felt suspicious if I already suspected if all kinds of process specifically like those were known as one of those popular schemes that most of the people would know when they're dealing with certain of those... With all of my suspects that I guessed from all of those "braindead" apps (and games), I can safely say that those are NOT definitely the best way to earn some money from them. Yes, you can entertain yourself with certain features in each of the apps (or games) out there, but they actually SUCK BALLS when it comes to earn some money from them, which doesn't even comparable to me waiting for my Adsense for at least approximately several months every turn (or even a year or more, particularly as for nowadays)... So, if you want to earn money quicker than those apps (or games), obviously get a real life job! Or, if you're creative enough yet you also have some sort of good potential from yourself, just become a YouTuber and upload whatever contents that do you want as long as it doesn't break all kinds of YouTube's guidelines. Well then, that's it from what I could say to the topic that I literally explained about those of the popular "braindead" apps (and games), which most of them do have their usual common practice where most of them do have that one feature where you can earn some money from them, which probably doesn't work like what they advertised. Thanks for reading this article, and pay full attention when it comes to dealing one of those apps (or games) out there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social media platform abandonments...

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

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

1. My personal Facebook account...

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

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

2. My very first YouTube channel...

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

3. My very first Instagram account...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.