As I mentioned in one of my previous articles that prominently featured all of my old Plants vs. Zombies toys and mini figures that I still keep after all these years (even with some wear and tear on them), I spotted few of them that has really weird interaction against our country's humidity. One of the notorious examples for these are several of my old K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies mini figures of themselves, specifically for most of those plant characters that have parts with solid matte plastics instead of all of them were made completely using ABS like the rest of them that I own. I was attempted to "restore" one of them (which was the Snow Pea, due to it was definitely the worst looking one among the others), but I ended up making it obviously look WAY uglier than how it originally looked like. Without further ado, let me explain about my short story about how come if I ended up "restoring" it like so.
(it's supposed to look like this when it was brand 🆕, but... ⬇)
Basically, I was once attempted to "clean" it in order to make it brighter like it was factory sealed from it's own blind bag that used to pack it. However, just like the most of the others that I mentioned there, it obviously didn't work with the casual ways of cleaning them (such as water and some soap [of any kind]), unless if I must bring it to a paint workshop in order to actually restore it (though I'm afraid if the painter would paint over it's own original prints like both of it's own eyes, yet I doubt if it's possible since it's so small to do so). Unfortunately, instead of doing so, I simply made a total blunder that singlehandedly caused it to look like so nowadays, by simply rubbing it's own entire head with a sandpaper. Not only the fact it totally ruined the way how it originally looked like in general, I also accidently rubbed the original watermark that was embossed on it, specifically this exact watermark that was embossed like this:
Well then, that was basically it, and I also accidently rubbed one of it's own original eyes too for a bit. Because of this disaster that I made, I don't think if I eventually able to feature it again on some of my social medias that I own (specifically one of my Instagram accounts and one of my Tiktok accounts that I recently made, respectively). Since this particular mini figure originally didn't come with one of it's own crucial parts of it (for this case, it was it's own stem, which it had the same green color as the regular Peashooter), it also caused me feel better to totally retire it for good, even if this was obviously one of my most wanted mini figure that I wanted back in those good old days (alongside with original Peashooter, Fire Peashooter, Garden Warfare/Garden Warfare 2 version of Peashooter, and Plasma Pea [which I still didn't have it until today, bummer])... If you have your own story when it comes to one of these, feel free to share your own short stories about it in the comments section below. That's basically for what I could recognize them back in those days, and as always, thanks for reading this article.
Have you ever deal with those of the bloatware apps (or sometimes games, albeit rarely) that comes pre-loaded with any of your Android devices since your childhood? If so, because I wasn't the only one who used to deal with them per each of the Android device(s), though I couldn't able to take some serious actions with them except for simply disabling them by default. Without further ado, let me list various of my Android devices that particularly have/had some of those bloatware apps that comes/came pre-loaded with each of them.
Note : Those of the Google apps that come/came pre-loaded with some of the devices aren't/weren't count, because most of them are indeed highly crucial for each of the Android devices themselves (most importantly GMS and GSF), unless most of them are now no longer supported especially for those ones that were existed since more than a decade ago. This exact trait also applied with some of the Meta apps as well, except I only use few of them for now.
A. Samsung Galaxy Y (2011)
From what I remembered, it only had QuickOffice. Not sure for the rest of them though.
B. Advan T1C and T1Ci tablets (2012-2013)
SlideMe Market (a some sort of online app vendor that roughly resembled Aurora Store),
Notepad (unknown developer), and
apkInstaller (unknown developer)
C. Asus Zenfone 5 (2015) and Asus ZenPad C (2016)
certain useless proprietary Asus apps (Party Link, PC Link, WebStorage, What's Next, etc.),
MyAsus,
Amazon Kindle: Reading App (Amazon Mobile LLC),
Clean Master (Cheetah Mobile)*,
Omlet (a social media app that vaguely resembled those of the popular ones like WhatsApp, Instagram's DM chat, Line, Telegram, BlackBerry Messenger [now defunct], and so on [albeit this exact 🍳 one wasn't so popular]),
Zinio, and
Data Transfer (FutureDial)
*means it is now completely defunct due to security breach issues that was occurred
D. Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 (2019)
MyAsus, and
Babe (Baca Berita, some sort of Indonesian news portal app that resembles Google News)
As for the bonus, I also recently have a 2019 Realme C2 which also pre-loaded with some bloatware apps in there, though I was able to remove them carefully using command-line ADB tricks on my 💻. Just for the heck of it, here is my short list exclusively about it for bit of fun comparison:
Opera browser (regular one, not the Mini one if I'm not mistaken),
J&T Express mobile app,
Jakarta Baca Lite (similarly to Babe, another Indonesian news portal app that resembles Google News if I'm not mistaken),
Lazada, and
Vova
If you have your own short stories related to this in each of your Android devices since your childhood, feel free to mention those of the bloatware apps that came with your Android devices in the comments section below if your memory still serves it right. That's basically it for what I could particularly say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this (rather short) article.
Back in ~2012 when I used to be an enthusiast with the Angry Birds franchise as a whole, I used to do so by various things apart from playing those old games themselves using some of my bad old Android devices that I used to have (which almost all of them were now omitted from Play Store [or App Store if you're an iOS user], unless if I have to resort on those of the old .apk files of themselves through certain websites), which those were collecting those of my old Angry Birds toys, purchasing a single plush of it (albeit it wasn't in-game accurate with one of the bird characters that I wanted [for this case, it was Chuck]), and purchasing two of the very cheap pirate DVD of themselves... Yes, I actually used to purchase two separate pirate DVDs of themselves from two separate cassette stores, and believe or not, it turned out to be just the compilation of old YouTube videos instead of the actual "movie" of it, though the actual Angry Birds Movie itself existed few years after that year.
Since I purchased both of those aforementioned pirate DVD of themselves from then, which means this was also occurred right before those of the Angry Birds Toons series were existed specifically in the next year. As for the old YouTube videos of themselves, here is my list of one of the compilations that was available on both of them, though I still couldn't remember the correct sequence of which videos that they usually pirated there, as I listed them here below:
Angry Birds Rio - Nigel Mashup (Brazilian version)*,
Angry Birds Rio Trailer*,
angrybirds 3d movie (Graphic Fantasy),
Angry Birds feat. Transformers 3**,
Angry Birds feat. the animal farm(s)**,
Ball Games with the Angry Birds**,
Angry Birds feat. Plants vs. Zombies**,
Angry Birds Bing Video - Episode 1*,
Angry Birds Cinematic Trailer*,
Angry Birds & the Mighty Eagle*,
Angry Birds Presents: Summer Pignic*,
Angry Birds - Hungry, Hungry Piggies - 3D Animation (TomLG1992),
Angry Birds VS Mario (A fan made Animation) (Yudhaikeledai), and
Angry Birds No Speak Americano (jold profile)
* means it is from the official Angry Birds channel itself **means it is from FunVideoTV
There's also another batch which I include them here below, but again, I couldn't remember the correct sequence of themselves:
Angry Birds Rio - Nigel Mashup (English version)*,
Angry Birds Seasons | Ham'O'Ween #Halloween*,
Angry Birds Wreck The Halls animation*,
Angry Birds Seasons - Year of the Dragon Animation*,
Super Hero Angry Birds**,
Angry Birds feat. Harry Potter**,
Angry Birds Mission Impossible Adventure : Claymation movie (Mina K [except it has unoriginal audio now]),
Angry Birds Seasons (Valentine's Day special)**,
Angry Birds feat. Spongebob Squarepants**,
Angry Birds feat. Sonic the Hedgehog**, and
various of those unrecognizable ones (including the ones from FunVideoTV), though most of those ones from the first batch are included in this list, if I'm not mistaken
* means it is from the official Angry Birds channel itself ** means it is from FunVideoTV
If you remembered all of these old Angry Birds videos on YouTube (unless if you got those of the newer ones with Angry Birds Toons or those of the actual Angry Birds Movie ones), feel free to share your own short stories about it in the comments section below. That's basically for what I could recognize them back in those days, and as always, thanks for reading this nostalgic "elite ball knowledge" article.
Back when I used to be a big fan of Angry Birds thanks to that one (some sort of) sweet chocolate chips brand in our country used to release their Angry Birds "egg" container toys, there were two online photo contest events that used to exist back in those of their "bird" days (specifically on their own Facebook page), which were once existed for few months in 2013 and 2014, respectively. However, I didn't participate in the former one; instead, I was once briefly participated in the latter with my cousin in the photo that I posted there back in those days. Though the former did select about the top 3 winners who used to post their own pictures of their children with their respective Angry Birds toys that they had back in those days. However, for strange reason, the latter simply didn't inform any of the winners whatsoever. Well, without further ado, let me particularly explain my own short story about how come if this particular "elite ball knowledge" still recognized on my mind until today.
Before I explained to the 2014 one that I was referring to, let me explain the throwback to the 2013 photo contest that they used to do with their own Angry Birds toys. Basically, you took a picture of yourself with your own Angry Birds toys regardless of your pose, location, the amount of those Angry Birds toys that you used to collect back then, and random props that were suited for the franchise itself. Then, you posted it on their own Facebook page specifically until the last day of the May in that year, simple as that. There were lot of pictures by those guest who posted them on that aforementioned Facebook page, and believe or not, one of the guests also featured those of the 2013 KFC Plants vs. Zombies toys as a cameo (except for one, though they didn't win it anyway)... As for those prizes for the top 3 winners in this particular online photo contest that used to exist back then, the third place got some sort of iPod knockoff (❔), the second place got a folding 🚲, and the first place got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.0.
Then, there was the 2014 one that I was concerned for. Similarly to the 2013 one, you took a picture of yourself with your own Angry Birds toys regardless of your pose, location, the amount of those Angry Birds toys that you used to collect back then, and random props that were suited for the franchise itself. The only difference between the 2013 and 2014 was the way how you played them instead of casually capturing yourself with your respective Angry Birds toys. Unlike the last contest, they claimed if you would win IDR 5.500.000 for doing so, instead of those items. However, after I waited it right past the May of that aforementioned year since I posted my own picture in there, specifically after few days since they passed the deadline itself (which was in the last day of that month in that year), I simply got no announcement from themselves. Seriously, I didn't even see any of their official announcement of themselves about who would come out to the top after all these years, even if I no longer being a big fan with this particular franchise anymore. Even if I used to highly doubt it if I would won the contest thanks to the way how I captured my own collection of themselves with my cousin, but I was also disappointed by the way how they simply didn't announce the winners themselves for strange reason that I obviously had no clue about it as a whole. Also, don't ask me if this was one of the reasons about the way how I quit enjoying Angry Birds and focusing more with Plants vs. Zombies stuffs, though both of the franchises are now in their absurdly dreadful state thanks to the way how both of those modern day companies behind their respective franchises ruined them to bits.
Well then, if you also remembered the time if you used to post those of your own pictures of themselves in their particular Facebook page, feel free to share your own short story in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's basically it for what I sum up about this particular article, and as always, thanks for reading this particular archive article.
This isn't inspired directly from that one ElectroBOOM's video on YouTube where he clearly explains about his own shocking life stories with various electronic devices that he used to deal with (specifically back in his good old days), which was the reason about how come if his YouTube channel itself is now existed since his first video where he shocked himself for very first time on camera with that ESD device... In relation particularly about him and his shocking life stories though, I also have plenty of my own shocking life stories which involves various electronic devices, including electric fans (though I already explained them in one of my older Blogspot articles about it, so I decided to list them again). Without further ado, let's take a look at my own list of my own shocking life stories, shall we?
(this wasn't the same night light that i was referring below [👇], because it was occurred in my childhood house...)
I was once tried to plug a mini night light on the power outlet, and there was an earphone cable hanging RIGHT in front of the power outlet. I recklessly plugged it in, and BANG!!! My childhood house's entire power got cut in that evening!
One of my family's relative's from my mom's side was attempted to reuse one of the unused old E27 light fixture that was laying around since the last usage of it (which was from several years ago). He tried to use it in order to add the additional light in the kitchen of my childhood house by installing a random low wattage CFL bulb on it, and it suddenly BANG!!! My childhood house's entire power got cut in that evening!
During one of the class sessions in my old primary school, there was a moment where one of the teachers brought an accumulator as a part of the study itself. I touched the top part of accumulator itself, and I immediately got shocked.
(this wasn't the same vintage fan that i explained below...👇 [since this one clearly had completely different brand])
In one of neighborhoods of my childhood house, there was a vintage Sanyo (❔) desk fan running on 110v of voltage rating, which it used to work just fine since it was connected to step-down transformer (if I guessed that right). I decided to move it to another spot, which I stupidly connected it to the power outlet with standard 220v/50Hz of power rating, which caused the fan itself release some smokes out from it after several seconds later.
I was having fun with that one AC 220v cooling fan that I used to have, which I purchased in 2014. Somewhere from almost a decade ago, I was stupidly had fun by playing around with it due to some boredom that happened to me at the moment. Then, it suddenly decelerated yet it also produced some burning smells, and then it POPPED! The fan just stopped working due to the sudden burnout that suddenly occurred, yet it also popped my previous house's MCB. After all of that occurred, since it wasn't working anymore, I obviously trashed it away, and that was basically it.
A ceiling light socket in the TV room of my previous house used to trip the MCB plenty amount of times every single time I turned it on by flicking the light switch that was connected to it, especially when it used to equip any CFL bulbs on it regardless of the amount of wattage that they used to have. I decided to replace it with the LED bulb, and it did work just fine, except with some flickers every single time I turned it on. However, a repairman already replaced the light socket itself with a better one later on, and the old light socket itself also caused the small portion of the ceiling where it used to be installed got torched slightly.
My current house's indoor MCB used to trip the entire house's power several times due to it was faulty by all of the sudden specifically in that night, so I had to call a repairman in order to replace it with a better one.
If you have your own shocking life stories with various electronic devices that you ever experienced, feel free to share your own story specifically about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.
You probably recognize if I actually used to have yet another Android tablet besides both of those old Advan ones that I mentioned in some of my older posts that featured them? Obviously no, thanks to that one nearly 9 year old Blogspot article that explained about it and those of the other two aforementioned tablets that I made from 2016 (though I accidently deleted all of those pictures of themselves, leaving them with just "❗" marks), which coincidently also the same year where I purchased this particular tablet. Without further ado, let me tell my own quick story about the aforementioned device itself right away... (yes, "quick" because why not)
A. Purchasing the device itself...
Believe or not, I purchased this particular tablet because I used to look at one of those popular physical catalogs that featured the review of it before, simple as that. Although I noticed some weaknesses that this thing delivered according to how they initially reviewed it in there, but that didn't stop me for purchasing it from one of the local cell phone stores in my hometown, which costed around IDR 2.000.000 (which means it was my most expensive tablet that I ever purchased among all of them).
B. Specifications...❓
Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the full specifications for this particular tablet. However, I still remembered the model number of it, which was P01Y, and it originally ran on Android 5.0. The amount of RAM was probably similar to what my old Zenfone 5 had, but I'm not 💯% sure. Also, just like many average Android devices that they were available on sale in those times (or even today), it had two SIM card slots and a single microSD card slot, respectively... As of the other stuffs that originally came with it from it's own box, it came with it's own microUSB cable, adapter, instructions, and the 1-year warranty card.
C. The experience of it, but...
There's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it performed almost identically to what my old Asus Zenfone 5 would do when it comes to basic stuffs in general (including game tests, albeit it was much less amount of time), except it's own internal storage space was 4 GB lower than that of my old Zenfone 5. Which means, if I put too much files or apps on it, it eventually led into that dreaded insufficient storage space notification. There were no absolute option apart from the fact I must uninstall bunch of apps that I didn't need in there (including some of those bloatware ones). Unfortunately though, I was unable to uninstall them because I'd only able to disable them natively by myself instead of doing so straight away (unless if I had a knowledge to access some third-party apps or certain methods in order to do so).
As for the camera itself, the quality of it was roughly similar to my old Zenfone 5, with an exception of how this one simply didn't have the autofocus on it's own single rear camera... The picture quality of it was mildly mediocre, and so for it's own video recording too (which was somewhat lower volume but noisier sounds compared to my old Zenfone 5). Even if this particular tablet had THAT exact amount of internal storage space, at least I was able to save my saved pictures and saved videos separately on my own microSD card that I used to equip in there (coincidently, the microSD card that I used to equip in there is the same one that I'm currently using on my Asus 📱 that I'm heavily using it right now since 2019, which I also used it initially on one of my old Advan tablets too since I purchased that particular microSD card from then).📷📹
(this was taken when it crashed right after i unlocked it from it's own lock screen...)
Apart from that major insufficient storage space issues that I mentioned just earlier, it also had another issue where I tried to unlock it right from the lock screen, it immediately crashed the entire operating system then rebooted straight after by itself for some odd reasons. This occurred numerous times, and it eventually fixed by itself for unknown reasons that I had no clue about how come it initially occurred just before... With the weird state that it specifically had, I only used it for several months by myself until I decided to give it away to my cousin in the same year where I purchased it instead of selling it to someone for mildly steal price like what I did with my old Samsung Galaxy Y (or on the worst cases similarly to what I did to one of those Advans, smashing it), but he probably didn't satisfy by how it performed which caused he ended up purchasing his own better Android device later on (though he also used to have his old Evercoss tablet that performed similarly to one of my old Advan tablets).
Since then, I had no clue whether if he still keep it or not, due to the fact I no longer noticed the aforementioned tablet itself anymore after few months later... Well then, that concludes about my short archive story particularly about this Android tablet that I used to own there for several months within that year. With plenty of those flaws that it specifically had, I doubt it if I can purchase another Android tablet again, since most of those modern day Android devices will perform much better than one of those. Although there are some modern day Android tablets out there, but I absolutely have no clue about which one that I want to purchase in case if I need it...... Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about it soon.
After that one occurrence where my 6 year old Android 📱 suddenly got it's own original 🔋 just inflated by itself in the last year which I was able to troubleshoot it, but then in this year, it's own performance suddenly went totally dropped where my 📱's entire old Android 9 (🥧) operating system just lagged horribly. Seriously, it's own entire operating system literally did so because I was once opened one of the random apps which I rarely used it for a while, but then it suddenly led into the aforementioned problem itself which I couldn't even get rid of it by myself... Well then, it's time to find the actual truth about how come if it suddenly occurred initially like so, until how I was able to troubleshoot the problem itself later on.
As what I clearly mentioned just earlier, I was once opened one of the random apps that I rarely used it for a while (for this case, it was one of those random floating browser apps that I was officially installed on it from the Play Store). The reason about how come if I decided to open the aforementioned app itself, it's purely because I was so bored, simple as that... However, right when I demonstrated the app's key feature of it, instead of working properly as what it should be, it just caused my entire 📱 just lagged absurdly by all of the sudden. This particular sudden total lag problem literally existed, even if I already uninstalled the aforementioned app that probably caused this to occur initially. It also made the matters worse, no matter if I kept restarting it numerous times, deleting unnecessary files on it's own internal storage, installing some antivirus and cleaner apps on it, or tweaking some stuffs on it's own settings (precisely on it's own developer options section), this particular problem always returned by itself after roughly several minutes depending on which apps or mobile games that I opened (ranging from those of the light ones, until all the way to those of the heavy ones), or on the worst cases, it occurred by itself during it was on standby. During this occurred, it literally struggled severely to open almost any apps or any mobile games that I tried to open them specifically on it (which either they went unresponsive or they just crashed instead), and so for it's own System UI itself. It also caused my 📱's back part of it went overheated as well, but it was mildly less compared to those times when it used to equip with it's own original 🔋 that got suddenly inflated in the last year though.
Even if this lag problem existed, but I just found out about how come if my 📱 suddenly did this by all of the sudden. It turned out if certain system background apps literally bloated almost my entire 📱's RAM for severely odd reasons, which I was able to check it from one of the options of it's own developer options despite it's unresponsive state that it had, specifically right during I tried to access the aforementioned section itself... However, I was able to fully troubleshoot it by bringing it into the same service center where I used to replace it's own original 🔋 with the better one in the last year, by simply resetting it's own entire Android operating system itself back to it's factory settings for relatively cheap price (which was exactly IDR 50.000 for doing so). Though I obviously lost all of my own data and all of those progresses that I saved on it's own internal storage, but I was able to restore whatever else that I used to do those stuffs that I usually do on it, but not all of them though (unless everything on it is all set already as of today). Well, that simply concluded about how the problem itself that was initially occurred from (supposed to be) that one random app, until all the way to how I was able to fix it by resetting the entire 📱's operating system itself back to it's factory settings.
As of today, it now works fairly 🆗 as if it was brand 🆕 from 6 years ago. Unfortunately though, according to the repairman who repaired this in his own service center, the entire old Android 9 operating system itself that is installed specifically on this 📱 will definitely obsolete roughly in the next year (or two). Because of this particular statement that he specifically said so to me, I don't think if I will decide to get a brand 🆕 Android 📱 with newer Android operating system(s) once this 📱 no longer support it's own old Android operating system soon (unless if he would able to install custom Android operating system on it [such as something like Lineage OS, CMIIW], but I highly doubt it)............ Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about this once it will happens soon.
This is rather short article that I made here, but imagine if I'd actually doing so instead of owning my current one that I'm using it nowadays? Well, if you may recognize this in few of my older articles that I made from a while ago, you might recognize that old Acer Aspire 4741Z laptop that I used to own since somewhere in 2009 until roughly 4 years later. That laptop had some error where it always went to BSOD all the time, yet the BSOD itself lasted about few seconds until it automatically restarted again by itself until I forced to turn it off. Although I used to bring it multiple times in the large electronic store where I purchased this back in the day, but in the meantime where I encountered that exact error itself, instead of fixing it due to the condition of the aforementioned laptop itself was okay, I stupidly exchanged it with the 2013 Samsung (which I realized if the Samsung had somewhat lower build quality compared to that aforementioned Acer or other brands [including the one that I'm using right now, which is the Lenovo], TBH).💻
(this screenshot has nothing to do with the 💻 that I'm talking about)
Even though I still recognized that exact time where I exchanged it with that crappy Samsung, but imagine if I would keeping it instead of that particular option that I actually did it back then? Well, the answer of it would be obvious, by upgrading some crucial components inside, specifically for storage, RAM, and processor... First off, for the storage itself, that laptop originally had 320 GB of HDD (if I guessed that right). I'd upgrade it with (at least) 128 GB of SATA SSD for the operating system storage, and I'd also reuse it's own original HDD that came with it by replacing the obsolete DVD-RW drive using the HDD itself by installing the aforementioned hard drive itself on a caddy... Then, for the RAM that came with it, it originally had a single 1 GB of DDR3 RAM stick (if I guessed that right too), I'd upgrade it by purchasing pair of brand new 4 GB of DDR3 RAM sticks... Lastly, for the processor itself, it originally had Intel Pentium P6000 (❔). I had no clue about the replacement processor that would work with the entire laptop itself though... As for the random miscellaneous components like the LCD screen, battery, and CMOS battery, I also had no clue if either one of them would be replaced since last time I used it back in those days, they were all in fairly good condition per each of them (though the original battery itself didn't last for at least an hour though, from what I remembered back in those days).💻
Well then, there you have it for my short story that literally explained about it in general. Even though that laptop may seem obsolete on it's own, but that laptop would also have it's own potential if I would keeping it with all of those upgraded components equipped, unless if my budget would enough for doing so, otherwise that would cost averagely similar to the one that I'm using nowadays... If you have your own thoughts regarding to this exact topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right (if you used to have at least one of them in your own). That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.💻
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. 🥀
"Wait, what? You got another free gift from another YouTuber after all of your favorite mini figures from a famous YouTuber with more than 1M subscribers that you did back in 2018?" Even though this was slightly less exciting compared to those mini figures that I acquired back then, this is specifically because in fact one of my famous electric fan enthusiast YouTubers from our country with ~45K subscribers literally gifted one of his fans for real (for this case, a NIB ceiling exhaust fan). Without further ado, let me explain about how he ended up doing so in general, right away.
The ceiling exhaust fan itself... (the brand of it is Kirin)
Basically, he casually asked me in one of the social media's direct message chat (for this case, Instagram's direct message chat). At first glance, he asked about how's the current state of myself in general (especially about the current financial condition of me and both of my parents after those of the dreadful pandemic times), until how he secretly checked one of my YouTube channel's community posts about why my parent's bedroom in my current house lacked any proper ventilation whatsoever. As what I clearly stated on that aforementioned community post about it, here's the statement that I made specifically about it, in case you've wondering:
"when it's hot outside, almost all of the rooms in my current compact house goes hot AF, especially for this room... yes, it has a window in there, but due to the fact the window itself is located between it and the kitchen, yet the window itself also got blocked by the fridge right behind it, i can't even open it anymore with ease, therefore this room lacks any of proper ventilation whatsoever..."
"i feel like i want to install a ceiling exhaust fan inside there, but i don't think if i will do it soon because i obviously don't have enough budget for purchasing and installing it though..."-Me
Yep, that's basically the reason about why that particular room of my current house lacked the said ventilation, therefore it always feel so hot when it's sunny outside. I mean, it's not bad compared to those times before I moved into this exact house, which was in the portion of my dad's main workplace (it was WAY too hot when it's sunny outside every single time, thanks to the asbestos roof that it literally has, even if I installed my old exhaust fan on there too, but it turned out if that didn't help that much). Also, the reason about why I chose the ceiling exhaust fan instead of the regular one, it's due to the location of the room itself has no access to install one of those regular exhaust fans anyway... Well, he took an opportunity to troubleshoot the problem by giving me a NIB ceiling exhaust fan for free. Before he even did so afterwards, I almost refused it because I'd love to purchase one of those from any of the hardware stores or electronic stores in my hometown instead. But, with all of his reasons specifically about how he felt so pity to most of the fan enthusiasts including myself, he actually did it anyway to me by sending it straight into my current compact house where I'm currently settling in nowadays since I moved into here last year.
Further view of the ceiling exhaust fan itself...
After I waited for few days, an expedition car arrived in front of my house, and one of the courier delivered the mail that contained the said ceiling exhaust fan itself. Upon I received it, I opened the mail itself, and there was the thing itself inside it's own box! Again, although this was slightly less exciting compared to those mini figures that I acquired back then, at least this DOES have it's own key function in order to exhausting air out from that room indeed... In order to install it, I decided to call the same electrician who used to install my ceiling fan in my house by making the hole of it on the ceiling, followed by how he connected it using a cable between it and the wall switch, which he also replaced the old single light switch with a double one (one is obviously for light for that room, and the other is for the fan itself). It took approximately an hour of how he installed it, and after he did so, I decided to test it by simply flicking the switch that connects to it. Sure, it makes some difference compared to those times without it, and most importantly, it no longer makes the room itself feel so hot now every single time I turn it on... if it actually does it's job though. And finally, after he installed it, the said fan enthusiast himself transferred some bucks from his bank account to the aforementioned electrician indeed, although he had to transfer them to my bank account first, then I transferred them into him anyway.
After all of those efforts, that simply concluded about how come if he decided to sent that particular ceiling exhaust fan for free to me. I didn't expect if this occurred by all of the sudden, it's because I only meant to share that YouTube community post which simply explained about how come if that bedroom lacked any proper ventilation (including those of my pictures of the room itself), but it turned out if there was a sudden miracle behind it though, particularly from one of fellow fan enthusiasts from our country that I always recognize after all these years, even if I rarely watch any of his contents on his YouTube channel anyway for various reasons, unlike what I used to constantly binge watching them more often back in those good old days, except those were from any of the random people instead (including anybody who lives outside our country)... Well then, there you have it for my overall story particularly about this, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article.
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.
"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.
Are you still watching TV nowadays? If so, it's because I'm not only the one who constantly watch any kinds of TV programs after all these years since my childhood, even if you definitely have a better option to watch anything deeper than just TV like I do these days... However, I'm not talking about any kinds of TV programs from various TV stations that I usually watch since my childhood though. Instead, I'm gonna tell you about how come if our country's whole government finally decided to shut down the analog TV stations, then they decided to switch over into digital TV terrestrials, including around my area where I live. Without further ado, it's time to share my own story about my final days with analog TVs, until all the way to how our country's government finally decided to shut them down forever. 📺
A. Final times with analog TV...📺
Back in those good old days since my childhood, I obviously watched all kinds of TV programs from those TV channels casually using the analog TV from any of my old CRT TVs that I ever owned, even if I ever watched them briefly using those of cheapo Chinese modular feature phones with built-in antenna, which those weren't mine anyway. This was the only way to watch them, because that was the only reliable source to do so for roughly 2 decades since then. Even though it obviously didn't have a good picture, sound, and signal qualities, otherwise it would sometimes ended up in just "snowy" pictures (or even a plain blue screen), it didn't matter for me though to watch them without any kinds of problems, and this particular trait also applied to the analog FM radio with their respective radio stations around my hometown too.📺
Source : Pixabay
Those were the good old times of me watching all kinds of TV programs from various TV stations in general. Until somewhere in 2022, all TV stations around our country literally warned us in order to switch over from that old analog TV to digital TV terrestrials, including me. Even though the analog TV still existed back then, I just decided to buy one of those run-of-the-mill set top boxes from an electronic store, then I hooked it to my old small CRT TV by connecting the AV cable into it.📺
B. Dealing with it using my set top box and my old CRT TV...📺
Even if I already own that set top box, I actually used to have another set top box that used to exist roughly in 2017-2018, except it was provided by one of those famous internet service providers that also existed in my hometown. I ever experienced with it, and the result of it was mildly okay, depending on which TV stations that I watched. Yes, that set top box did have an option to connect it into my old house's Wi-Fi access point yet it had plenty of video streaming apps too, including YouTube. Sure, I would love to login both of my Google accounts on it, due to the fact it was connected to my old CRT TV, it was painfully difficult to read all of those texts, thus I just didn't bother to do it anyway... As for the main feature itself (which was the digital TV that came with it), it did work just okay, and it had it's own common problems where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" screen, despite it was clearly connected to one of my Wi-Fi access point's Ethernet ports (not coaxial cable). After I had some enjoyment with it, unfortunately I had to stop using it by returning it back to the provider themselves due to severe financial issues that occurred back in the day (along with the Wi-Fi access point that came with it), which means I had to watch all kinds of TV shows back using the old analog TV for next 4 years, and so for how I replaced that good access point with more s***** one later on.📺
Now, back to my run-of-the-mill set top box that I owned there, connected to my old small CRT TV. Yes, it worked just okay, but it also had the same problem where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" screen too. No matter if I ever tried to fix it by re-scanning the available TV stations that are broadcasting 24/7 around my area, or fixing the coaxial cable connection and the connector that connects into the unit itself, or even tweaking certain options in order to make it less occurring, those common problems are sometimes come back, which caused me to switch between digital TV terrestrials using it or just the classic analog TV. Unfortunately though, even if I also owned the loop-over connector that connects between my set top box and my old CRT TV, the analog TV was finally got shut down in the last year around my area exactly in the meantime I tested it, so that means no more of me watching them using analog TV forever indeed.📺
C. Dealing with it using my smart TV...📺
Box of my current flat screen smart TV that I own...
FYI, I recently purchased my own flat screen smart TV in order to install it in my current compact house, it's because that old small CRT TV would occupy some space and it would also draw more power that might trip my whole house's MCB. Instead of using both of it's own "legs" that came with it, I decided to install it on the wall using the bracket, in order to avoid all kinds of accidents of me using it in general. Yes, it does have roughly similar features just like that set top box, with an exception about how it has much more content compared to that. For example, it obviously have a built-in Wi-Fi adapter, yet it also has bunch of apps that comes with it, including certain online video streaming apps (YouTube, Prime Video, Vidio, WeTV, etc.). Watching all kinds of videos on YouTube on this is pretty much exactly as what I expected for, and I even logged in both of my own Google accounts on it just alright, as long as it still connects to my house's Wi-Fi access point 24/7.📺
Now, how about the main feature itself though? Well, the results when it comes to me watching digital TV from various TV stations are exactly in similar fashion to how I watched them before using my old CRT TV, equipped with that set top box. Yes, it still has it's own common problems where where most of the TV stations just stuttered every certain amount of seconds or minutes, or on the worst cases, it led into "no signal" or "invalid service" messages, even if I tried to fix it by re-scanning the available TV stations that are broadcasting 24/7 around my area. Unfortunately though, there is no specific option in order to make it way less occurring, apart from all of those basic options of the whole smart TV's settings itself. FYI, it also has 5 different sources to watch anything on it though, such as 2 different versions of digital TVs (both DVB-T2 and DVB-C [which the latter one still didn't have any at the moment]), analog TV (which obviously no longer existed anymore), AV, and 2 HDMI ports.📺
D. The common problems...📺
As what I clearly stated there, you probably think if watching any digital TVs will work flawlessly as you expect? Well (specifically around my area), no. It's because I have to deal with those of the common problems that usually occur every single time I watch them. When this particular problems gets worse, I have to fix it's own coaxial cable that connects between the TV and the outdoor antenna itself by fixing it's own connector in order to make it less occurring, which still doesn't even fix it most of the time (unless I will get the indoor antenna booster to rectify it though). As for the common problems on the digital TVs that I was talking about, here are the signs about them:
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).
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:
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),
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),
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).
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.
