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.

The "death" of my two old 💻's hard disk drives...

You probably remember the time when I used to own both of those following 💻s before I own my current one (Lenovo), which those were both 13" Dell and Samsung, respectively... Since both of them were no longer work properly, I decided to take each of their own hard disk drives from them both in order to retrieve MANY of my old archived files from it. However, they both suddenly had their own problem where I was attempted to connect them to my current 💻 using the USB SATA cable, therefore I no longer able to retrieve ALL of my old archived files from them both anymore. Without further ado, let me explain both of those hard drives that came from both of those old 💻, right away.

A. Western Digital 500 GB (13" Dell)

Started off with this particular Western Digital 500 GB one. This was the one that originally came with that ancient 13" Dell 💻 that I stupidly wasted a lot of bucks from 6 years ago. At first glance, it worked reasonably fine, including by how I connected to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable roughly after a while later since the Dell's LCD backlight screen died. However, somewhere in the last year, it suddenly ran into a problem where it simply bogged down for a whole lot, which caused it painfully slow to load everything on my current 💻's screen, specifically on the Windows Explorer. I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it barely did anything. Right now, I still keep it despite the current state that it has, but I don't think if I eventually decide to plug it on my current 💻 though for the umpteenth time.

B. Toshiba 320 GB (Samsung)

And then, there's this particular Toshiba 320 GB, which originally came from my old Samsung that I purchased back in 2013 (which also replaced my very first laptop, which was that Acer, though the condition of that Acer was okay apart from that weird BSOD itself which I already explained in some of my older Blogspot articles before)... Right after the original LCD screen itself went all white (which was unrepairable, with how the screen's bezel itself was also broken on one of the hinges), I decided to take the hard disk drive itself out from it and connected it to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable, though I had a lot of "effort" for removing it from my old 💻's hard disk drive's slot thanks to all of those screws that originally screwed it in there. Similarly to that Western Digital one, it used to work reasonably okay, either during the old 💻 that used to equip it was working on it's own for years, or during I connected it to to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable...... until it suddenly ran into a problem in similar fashion to that Western Digital too, except it now no longer getting recognized with my current 💻. During it occurred, I was attempted to check ALL of my old archived files on it, and then Windows Explorer on my current 💻 suddenly froze instead. Instead of restarting the Windows Explorer during it was in "Not Responding" state, I stupidly unplug the hard drive itself RIGHT in that exact state❗ Because of that, it simply no longer getting recognized with my current 💻. I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it obviously didn't do anything at all, yet it also makes some weird ticking noises from it too when this occurred.

(notice for how severely crooked the 💻's screen is...)

Well then, there you have it for both of those old 💻 hard disk drives that were once worked, but now both of them have their problems that I couldn't even fix them purely by myself. If you know about how to repair them (though it's nearly impossible to fix them both), please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say about this, and pay attention when it comes to treating one of those old physical storage devices like those, otherwise they will end up like both of those that I mentioned there.

my Android phone's battery suddenly did this... (and eventually...) 📱🔋

I thought my current Android smartphone that I purchased back in early of 2019 would last longer than my older Android devices before this one, it's because the batteries on those of my aforementioned older devices had seemingly crappy battery life... However, I encountered a problem where it's own battery itself suddenly had crappy battery life, yet it also indicated by how the whole device itself looked a bit crooked on one of the sides specifically on the back part of the said device itself. Well, it's time to find the actual truth about how come if it suddenly occurred particularly like so, until how I was able to troubleshoot the problem itself later on.📱🔋

Basically, I've been heavily using this particular daily driver for more than 5 years without any signs of issues whatsoever since I newly acquired it from then. Ranging from various stuffs from opening bunch of social media apps, editing pictures or videos on it, taking photos and videos, until all the way to playing some games on it, albeit it's obviously somewhat underwhelming nowadays compared to majority of those modern day Android phones that are available on market nowadays. When it comes to the battery life itself, they claimed if the battery itself originally would last for almost a day (or two), depending on which apps or games that I open, otherwise it would end up draining it faster if I keep doing it for too long.📱🔋

However, since roughly a year ago (or two), I realized if it's own battery itself suddenly went weaker overtime, specifically when I opened certain apps that usually drain it's own battery life quicker, which technically would do so as what I worried for... It also eventually made the matters itself even worse since around the beginning of this year, it's own battery life itself just went weaker than ever, which means it originally used to last for almost a day (or two), but then it only lasted for LESS than an hour (or even LESS than several minutes [depending on the usage of it]). I also realized when this occurred all the time, my entire device just heated up in such an unusual way, even if I mostly put the device itself on standby. It also made me shocked upon I checked the back part of it by opening the rubber case of the device itself, because one of the sides just suddenly went crooked! You know that means... My phone's battery just already inflated for real! Yep, even if it did so slightly, but that's the definite reason about how come if I felt a little bit uncomfortable every single time using it during this occurred. Moreover, I also worried if I keep recklessly using it in that exact state (including about how I charged it every single time, which I did it way more often during this occurred [yet it also sometimes wouldn't charge all the way up to 100%]), the non-removable battery itself would either explodes or erupts into smoke by all of the sudden if I still don't take a serious action with it yet.📱🔋

My phone's old faulty battery, notice for the year of it's production printed on it though...

Well then, after I decided to take the aforementioned serious action for real by replacing it's own old faulty battery with a new one, it now does last longer like what it originally used to be...... sort of. The phone repair technician revealed the actual truth about why my phone's old battery suddenly did that, it's because there was something shorted on it, therefore it caused all of those weird overheating and slight inflating behaviors during I used it in that state just earlier. Even though it also costed IDR 200.000 for replacing it in his service center, but it was really manageable for doing so anyway, as if it's still works just reasonably okay after all these years since I acquired the whole device itself from then... Just like what I clearly stated just earlier, depending on which apps or games that I open specifically on it, otherwise it'll drain it's own battery life faster if I keep recklessly doing it for too long. Oh, and one more thing, unlike most of those modern day Android smartphones that they currently sell these days which they claimed if they can charge any of those phone's batteries approximately within two hours (or even less, thanks to their original charging adapters), this one still charges it's own battery for at least 4 hours from anywhere near 0% to 100% (depending on what kind of aftermarket charging adapters that I use for charging it though, otherwise it will takes a while to do so for sure [it's because the original charging adapter that came with it was dead, which I also trashed it away as well]).📱🔋

If you have your own experience regarding to this exact situation with your own phones, please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's basically it for what I could say to this update article specifically about how come if my phone's battery suddenly does so, and pay attention when it comes to treating your own phones, especially when it's own battery life suddenly goes weaker overtime, or on worse scenario, it will end up becoming like that for sure.

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.

MEGA SPAM'N SCAM YOUTUBE COMMENTS ON POPULAR CHANNELS... (feat. Telegram)

This has nothing to do with both of my own YouTube channels that I particularly own due to the fact I never receive any kinds of mass spam comments like so. However, every single time I watch any contents from certain YouTubers with tons of subscribers (approximately more than 100K), I always bothered by all of that next-level MASS SPAM replies by EVERY SINGLE counterfeit accounts who commented on almost ALL popular videos from the said content creators. It also makes it even better, because every single on each of them who MASS SPAM themselves do have a word "Telegram" on themselves. Which means, they actually doing their mega perilous giveaway SCAM on Telegram in order to bait every single victims from YouTube out there to the aforementioned social media that they redirected into. Well, without further ado, let me explain about my short story about how come if this particular MEGA problem that recently occurs on YouTube with all of those wild perilous giveaway scam comment replies that ALWAYS occur on each of the random users who commented on EVERY SINGLE YouTubers with tons of subscribers.

As usual, I casually watched many of YouTube videos. Ranging from contents from various channels that has less than 100K subscribers, until all the way to the ones who have more than 100K subscribers. Until somewhere in past few months during I scrolled down to the comments section of a video by one of those popular YouTubers that I'm explaining about, I encountered MEGA TON of "sus" replies from MEGA TON of counterfeit accounts nicknamed of the same name as the name of the said channel that I watched, specifically from random people who "replied" them into. They "praised" to them if they won a giveaway based of the items that each of the popular YouTubers featured in any kind of forms per each of the channel's genre, respectively. Not only the fact they LITERALLY copy pasted both exact name and exact user profile that they stole, each of them also had word "Telegram" on majority of them as well. Again, they actually doing the aforementioned SCAM on Telegram in order to bait every single victims from YouTube out there to it in order to "win" the giveaway through their direct chats associated with them, even if most of the legit creators clearly stated if they NEVER claim any form of official giveaway like what they recently did.

According to somebody who investigated in one of these mega scams between YouTube and Telegram (even he wasn't a popular YouTuber who has more than 500K subscribers on his own channel), in order to win a "giveaway" from one of those anonymous culprits behind BILLION of those spam replies from MEGA TON of those accounts that they made on MANY of those videos from various popular YouTubers around the world, he would transfer approximately 113 bucks of the overall cost of their "items" plus shipping fee to themselves. Call me crazy, but I'm not really genius enough to binge guessing about what kind of "items" that they would "sent" to him, because of course I already guessed if they literally doing the said scams instead, simple as that. So that concludes if ANY of those YouTube-Telegram giveaway stuff b*****s are NOT F****** TRUE AT ALL!!!

Well then, there's not what I could particularly say to this, yet I would say this is definitely the biggest YouTube scams that I ever encountered in my entire life, even if I'm not involved by any of those yet since it initially occurred until today... As usual, pay FULL attention when it comes to how to deal with one of those accursed scam f*****s once you already commented on one of those videos from popular YouTubers. Once one of those scammers immediately replied like so, simply delete it at all costs. Or, just report them as an unwanted spam if you're able to, albeit they still able to reply them with their massive sets containing those of the spam and scam comment replies back with a vengeance... (Sigh)

Experience about me living in a house complex...🏠

Some of you may recognize if I actually live in some sort of house complex... Yes! However, as of these days since pandemic started from roughly 2 years ago, things getting worse and worse that caused me and both of my parents literally failed to do an obligatory objective in order to survive in this particular place much longer, or else we will evicted out soon in much less comfortable places soon... Speaking about that, let me tell you about the overall summary of me living in this particular place since almost a decade ago until today, until where I eventually ran into that huge problem that literally occurred for obvious economical reasons.

In case you've wondering about how come if I was able to settle in this particular place, I actually moved out from my old house that I also used to live with my grandma in 2012 (until she passed away in 2017). FYI, my old house looked way more traditional than this particular house where I'm currently settling in, it's because according to her, it was built somewhere in 1942. Even though I'd love to live in my old house because my old neighborhood were kind enough to meet my whole family (even down to how the house it looked), but I decided to move out from there due to that one problem that I couldn't even tell to you all... Anyway, back to the topic of this post. Even though I'd love to choose any other houses around my hometown that were affordable in those days, but I decided to buy this house on this particular house instead, it's because the fact it is located just close to my dad's main workplace... Simple as that.

This place has been worked quite well for several years about how I'm settling in this particular place, except the fact the neighborhood in this place is quite closed compared to my old neighborhood. Even though my current neighborhood are doing so, I occasionally visit few of them for certain stuffs to them (such as helping myself to fix my items, solving problems [which is rarely], and etc.). It's also located a bit further from the town center of my hometown too, unlike my old place, which only located just around few hundred meters from it. Also, judging by how you were able to hear some passenger trains passing by on few fan videos of my own YouTube channel of fans, I also live just close to a railway as well, which makes it easier to search this particular house complex through Google Maps of my hometown (if you're able to find it though). Not really a big house to settle in, but it's quite perfect for me and both of my parents to simply doing so for daily basis of all things in general. Moreover, this particular house where I'm settling in also featured as the first picture that they featured in their website of the whole house's complex itself in it's days too.

You may probably think if this particular house where I'm currently settling in has no certain rules unlike my old house would be? Well, you're completely wrong. Remember that "obligatory objective" that I was referred to? Yes, that's the one that I was talking about, which is some sort of monthly installment that the owner of house complex decided to do it on us. But before I'm talking about that for later, I'm gonna tell you about some flaws that occurred on this particular place aside from that one huge problem that we're dealing these days. Well, here are flaws of it:

• Even though I ever mini-renovated this particular place in 2016, it has some physical problems on most parts of the place, such as peeling wall paints, leaking issues when it's raining, and even horrible mold on one of the rooms.
• This place also ever invaded by some random snakes as well (albeit it was rarely per each of the row), it's because before they built this whole house complex, it used to be some sort of a sugarcane garden.
• The squat toilet in my own bathroom of this house sometimes refused to flush every s***, especially every time there's a heavy rain happening on my hometown, it literally floods the underground gutter, which is located right behind my back porch, exactly under someone's house that isn't even part of the house complex.

Well, that's the flaws of my particular place in general that I could discover to you. So, in somewhere in early of 2019, things getting worse about how we couldn't even pay the monthly installment due to certain reasons. And it makes even worse when the pandemic begins a year later, which causing us completely couldn't do it anymore which resulting to a penalty from the owner of the whole house complex. Even he did that to us, we still couldn't even do it yet which resulting to more tougher penalty, which is doing that particular objective thrice times as the regular one per month... Unfortunately though, we still couldn't do it yet due to how totally broke we are! So, there is no absolute way to survive in this such place like this anymore, apart from the fact we must evicted out from here soon to those locked and loaded places, which are obviously less comfortable than this place would be. Yes, it is located on another house complex of the same name, but way more further than where I'm currently settling it right now, yet the size of it is way smaller too (if it actually happens soon). Or else, we would simply evicted out from here to part of my dad's main workplace by converting it into a roadside cabin.

As of today... Yes, I still live in this particular place even with that one huge problem that we're totally dealing to death these days. I just really don't know what happened to us, yet I ever tried to sell this house to everybody who would interest to it. However, it didn't help at all; not only the fact nobody would buy it anyway, it's because it didn't meet it's own requirements to do it either way. So, we literally having an "arcane enigma" right now, whether if we actually have a better place aside from those ones or not. Only the truth and time will actually tell it sooner, but it's highly unlikely.

Yet another weird YouTube's bot comments...

This is possibly one of my shortest article post yet that I ever made on my whole Blogspot, but I will tell you about yet another bot comment spams that recently appears in every single of newly uploaded and published YouTube videos, including me. Last time, I encountered those "sus" YouTube's bot comments that were well-known for providing their shady links that leads to those wacky, dangerous hookup sites that would "kill" my devices or some sort of shady cyber crime behind them that always wants to conceal them away after every single of their actual actions to every victims, and now...... I got bunch of those aforementioned bot spams that looks like this!

Yes! But before I'm gonna explain them shortly, it's basically almost the same s**t to the last ones that I ever encountered from a while ago, except these particular bot comments do have completely different language (which is Spanish). Again, just like those ones that I encountered earlier, these particular bot comments also provides some wild URL links that leads to yet another s**t "sus" hookup sites too, except these particular bot comments do have completely different formula. Unlike previous ones which commented with just a random timestamp (duration) of a video then followed by their shady URL links themselves, these ones literally promotes "them" in their own Spanish language for some particular reason, yet they put those shady URL links between any of those sentences as well. As of today, these particular bot comments initially appears from nowhere since last month, and I literally have no clue about how come they keep doing their own purpose, but under different story. Of course I DON'T bother to open ANY of them, and I literally reported them straight away as unwanted spams for those reasons that I mentioned above, or even the reasons that I also explained in my aforementioned article post about those bot comments too... 

Well, I think that's pretty much it from what I encountered yet another one of these YouTube's bot comment spams that appears recently, but under different anonymous culprits that I absolutely have no clue about why they keep appearing again and again from nowhere like so. Yet again, pay FULL attention about how to deal with any of those out there since they are newly spams and swarms from nowhere every time you upload your latest YouTube videos... As always, stay safe from any of those culprits with their bot comments and thanks for reading this short post.

Errors and BSODs on your laptop(s)...💻❌

(Not my picture, but it belongs to somebody else who got this BSOD)

Note : Yes, I actually have my own picture of BSOD that occurred on one of my laptops that I ever owned, but unfortunately, I posted it on Google+ few years ago until the Google+ itself got shut down later on without downloading it back... So, I decided to put this screenshot instead, even though the error code on this BSOD itself is the same like what I literally saw exactly like so just before...

Well, it's time to explain about something different on tech topics, which is me explaining about certain errors and blue screen of deaths that occasionally happened in every single of my own Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.  There are plenty of certain errors and BSODs that I encountered from the past until today, especially for my first two laptops that I ever owned with their own poor specifications (unless I'd love to upgrade either one of it's own guts anyway).  Anyway, without further ado with it, let me explain about my short stories of certain errors and BSODs that were occurred through all of my Windows laptops that I ever owned from then until today.

A. Errors

There are plenty of errors that I ever spotted on my laptops in general, mostly occurred in some of my older ones with their own poor specifications. Here are bunch of my traits about certain errors themselves that I referred them to:

• First off, sometimes the whole system just bogged down a lot, which causing it performs so poorly (judging by the fact I checked it through Task Manager, the CPU always goes on 100%, freaking all the time!). When that happens, it occasionally makes weird "pup" sounds every time I tried to click anything, or on most cases, the cursor sometimes can't reach the taskbar or it stopped responding for a moment... The only way to fix it is obviously just force shut down the whole system, and it would probably fix it entirely. Or, on the worst cases, it would occasionally trip into BSOD instead until I must force shut it down.
  
• Another error that caused the whole system just bogged down a lot, which involves certain programs that I downloaded them from an internet, especially from the shady sites where I downloaded them from. I tried to open it, the whole system just doing that. Even I tried to delete it, it keeps doing so as well (until I finally able to get rid of it off, slowly)... There was also another behavior of the (almost) similar problem, but it occasionally occurred during I tried to open certain heavy programs, then the whole system suddenly bogged down a lot or completely stuck.
• Some older programs that intended to run on older versions of Windows would simply crash. Remember my old and popular post of me explaining those old 64 GameHouse games that were available on one my old laptops with Windows 7 installed? Most of them just wouldn't work on it or newer versions of Windows for very obvious reasons.
• Certain errors that involves me tried to connecting my laptop into my home Wi-Fi network, ranging on the way how it simply won't connect due to glitched options, IP address conflict (sometimes, especially for my good old days with Windows 7 yet accordingly to what it literally said), and so on.
• Certain severe system bugs or glitches that I couldn't recognize on which programs or system features that causing that to occur.

B. Blue screen of death (BSOD)

From what I remembered, I spotted at least two BSODs on my laptops from then until today. Although one of them may happen sometimes, but the other one was definitely the most frightening one that I ever seen so far. So, here are two moments about how the BSODs on my laptops occurred:

• First off, when I'm doing certain tasks with sounds (such as playing media files, playing games, or even online streaming stuffs), the whole system just suddenly freezes with the way how the sound also freezes as well. Then, after few seconds later, it triggers the BSOD... FYI, the one that I ever caught back from few years ago had an error code on it's own BSOD, which was Kernel Data In-page Error. Probably because I have too much force multitasking that caused it triggers like so? I think so, specifically for my old laptops with their own poor specifications.
• Then, here is my most frightening one that occurred on my very first laptop that I ever experienced so far. For absolutely no reason, it keeps BSOD right after I booted up the whole system. Unlike the first one which the BSOD stayed like it should be, this one just simply showed it ONLY for few seconds, then it restarted... It keeps doing it's own looping sequences like so for many times until I obviously force shut it down yet I brought it to the service center to reset it. I couldn't remember the error code on this particular weird BSOD, sadly.

There you have it for my own short stories of certain errors and blue screen of deaths (BSOD) that I experienced on my Windows laptops in general... As for my current laptop that I have right now, I also experienced some of the errors like what I stated above, but not all of them that I ever caught though. Here are bit of my specific experiences with my current laptop related to this topic that I clearly made in this post:

• The whole system just bogged down a lot every time right after I installed certain updates from Windows Update, sometimes. Even though I'm able to pause it for a week by accessing it's own settings, there is no way to manually stop it entirely apart from pausing it for a week, specifically for my Windows 10 version that is installed on my current laptop (Home SL)... So, in order to fix it, I have to either shut it down then I turn it on few times, or even restart it few times (if it works straight off the bat without any sudden horrible lags like so). Well, at least it doesn't trip into BSOD though.
• A tiny bit of minor problem where I do certain things with sounds (such as playing any media files, games, or even playing any of their online counterparts), sometimes the sound just freezes up for a split second... I ever experienced if my current laptop's whole system just froze the whole system with the way how the sound also froze, but it also didn't trip into BSOD anyway, because I was able to force shut down by simply holding the power button during that occurred.
• Another bad experience about how my current laptop also sometimes froze during I opened certain programs in one desktop (mainly for heavy ones like browsers, video editing software, or even games), the whole system just suddenly went stuck, and I couldn't even move my mouse's cursor at all during this occurred... Either way, it sometimes fixed by itself after few minutes; or on the worst cases, it kept doing so until it would trip to BSOD instead, but I was able to fix it by simply force shut down by holding the power button too.

Well, I think that's pretty much it for what I could say about this topic that literally explains about certain errors and blue screen of deaths on all of my laptops that I ever owned, ranging from my very first one till all the way into my current one that I'm using right now. Pay full attention if you want to optimize your computer(s) or laptop(s) properly, if you don't want any of these problems that I clearly listed here will happen in yours too at one day or sooner... Anyway, that's it from what I summed up about this topic that explains about them both cause I literally lost my words (or sentences) and ideas about whatever else that I will tell you next, and as always, thanks for reading this post.

Random infant vs. my electric fan videos on my YouTube channel...

"Ah yes. I know this user. The account was probably belonged to a mother of an infant. Hence the username. Many Indonesian AC and fan YouTube channels and videos always had their comments clogged with infants and autistics. Unlike the ones from US and etc. that had more fan enthusiasts than here..."-brothers.boy.88 on my Instagram account of fans and air conditioners

Recently, I received a lot of comments that are so weird on my whole YouTube channel of electric fans (and air conditioners). I know if I did encounter many weird comments from certain bad users that I encountered through many years, ranging from those hate comments, bot comments, dangerous porn "sus" comments that had some links that led into those "sus" sites, and recently, I received a lot of them from an user that belonged to a mother of an infant. Yes, and I'm not kidding particularly about that! But for some reason, she looks like she let the infant him/herself* to comment almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded, yet also applies to most of my fellow fan enthusiasts too... Well, without further ado with them, I'm gonna explain about why this particular infant always doing so on almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded on my whole YouTube channel of electric fans.

Before I explain about it, there are some of my possibilities about why this particular infant doing so. Here are my possibilities about it:

1. Just like what I clearly stated for a bit just earlier, she looks like she let the infant him/herself* to comment almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded.
2. My own profile picture that I put on my whole Google account that I'm using right now, which probably the reason about how this particular infant got attracted on my whole channel by watching my own electric fan videos on my whole YouTube channel, AND commenting them in just THAT ONE word based on the name of the mother of the infant him/herself* for no reason.
3. The username itself is probably fake, which means there is some random idiot behind all of those comments, but it's very unlikely or clearly not true.

Okay, back to my short story about main topic of this particular post that I'm explained about. In the meantime I encountered this kind of user, it used to post comments that exactly like what the particular infant is doing right now, but with bunch of random emojis right after THAT ONE word that he/she* usually posts right now. Even though if this particular infant still exists until today, it used to to so on completely different account that he/she* used in it's days, until I and most of our fan fellow enthusiasts forced to stop it (if I guessed that statement right, but I honestly don't have a clue about that anyway).

But, from what I could tell to it from at least few months ago until today, this particular infant literally never gives up! He/she* keeps spamming that with just a single word in EVERY SINGLE of my own electric fan videos. I tried to report it, and he/she* keeps doing that all over again! I mean, I'm not really angry like some people who can't stand with all of those hate offensive comments on their own contents, but the fact because this particular infant STILL doing so more than 10 times already, which is more than just a casual spam with all words and sentences that they usually do, but these ones just literally don't! Also, I obviously know if I honestly don't understand about what this particular infant expresses by just that SINGLE word comment of the username itself! (Sigh)

Although this isn't obviously my first time I encountered this kind of user, I also encountered some other users who being "abused" by their infants by commenting just a SINGLE word comments in my whole YouTube channel of electric fans before, but not as many as this one would be. Even then, those ones did annoy me as well, but not nearly as bad as what this particular infant constantly doing so these days, until I'll take an obvious action to force stop doing that entirely.

Well, I think that's pretty much it for the update about what's going on with this particular infant who constantly comments just a SINGLE word of the respective username of him/her* mother on almost ANY of my electric fan videos that I uploaded on my entire YouTube channel. I don't know about what else that I'm gonna say about this particular user though, yet this isn't one of the worst ones that I ever deal with, unlike certain ones that I already dealt from the past, which were ended up in obvious part of a cyber crime (for example). So, there you have it for my short story that explains about that particular infant who constantly doing so almost ANY of my electric fan videos that I uploaded on my entire YouTube channel, and hopefully you can pay full attention about it by learning some obvious lessons to them, if you're able to.

* means I obviously DON'T know the gender of the particular infant that I explained about

Archive: Worst experience with a cheapo, crappy "smart" watch...

This time, I will explain about something that was really bad exactly like what this person showed clearly in this particular video about the device itself, despite it was clearly a scam that pretended to be the real deal of it... Speaking about that cheapo device that he "reviewed" there, I also used to have one of those too, but it was under a different shape yet it also had the exact same cheap operating system as well like that one that he clearly showed there. Without further ado about it, let me take a look of my story about it, yet how I completely gave up using it anymore.

1. First glance of it...

Back in somewhere in 2018, my mom just told me about the "smart" watch itself that I planned to buy it online. At first glance, I thought I was like, "Oh... I can't wait to get an Android Wear for such a cheap price!" or some sentences that sounded quite similarly like that. So, I decided to buy it for roughly few bucks for it from a somewhere else online (which wasn't from any legit local online marketplace whatsoever). I waited it for probably 2 weeks for shipping for it, until I got a mail from a courier that contained the "smart" watch itself. So, I decided to open it straight away, until some sudden disappointment about it just hit really hard on my face during upon I unboxed the mail that contained the box of it.

2. Appearance

By the look of it, it was exactly what I suddenly disappointed into, which the box itself looked so cheap and bashed, until I decided to open it to reveal even more sudden disappointments of the device itself that I bought. It contained the "smart" watch itself, short microUSB cable, and instructions that was written in both Chinese and broken English... Yep, my disappointment about it was getting worse upon I turned it on (even when it only showed the battery icon during it's charging), but of course I had to charge it for at least 5 minutes for very first time to gave it some juice for it (if I guessed that statement right).

Anyway, back to the thing itself. It felt exactly similar to that guy who reviewed there, cheap and nasty crap, and both of it's own straps were also felt quite cheap too, but it did it's job just okay. Even though the one that I got had different shape, but it was basically the same thing like what he reviewed on that video there as well.

3. Usage and results

First off, you probably think if that thing would work exactly like what he reviewed there, but NO! It performed way worse as you may expect. Sometimes if I accidently drop it (but not too high), or I accidently tap it quite hard (but not too hard), it just simply shuts the thing itself off. It occurred just almost every single time if I did either the former or the latter, it kept shutting the thing itself off for unknown reasons. Maybe because the thing itself wasn't supposed to be shock-proof? Or device was naturally defective from the factory? Probably the latter, to be honest.

For the cheap operating system itself, of course I always felt annoying by that tune every time I turned it on or off, but I did able to disable it though settings that leaded to it, so. For the rest of the "apps" and functions of the watch itself, here are the results about them:

• First off, the key function about it was obviously the clock itself. It did work just okay as it was, but of course if I removed it's own battery then I put it back in, it kept resetting it's own date and time in very early of 2017.
• I didn't bother to send messages through it because not only the fact it was kind of obsolete in general these days, it was PAINFULLY difficult to type texts on that tiny touchscreen. That also occurred during I tried to do certain other things that involved typing texts on it too.
• Using it as a remote Bluetooth media player through an app from my smartphone's app just worked decently. Even though it's own tiny speakers didn't sound that great, it did it's job just reasonably so.
• Unlike the "smart" watch that he reviewed in that particular video, it had a built-in camera. The quality of the pictures that were taken by it was potato as you expect, yet slightly lower quality than that Nokia phone that my mom used to have in around 2006 to 2007.
• Using it as a remote camera also worked just okay, yet also using the same app that functions it as a remote Bluetooth media player for it.

Even though it had those features, it also had another flaws besides that one major flaw that I mentioned earlier. So, here are some flaws for it:

• Even though it had a camera, it didn't had a feature to record a video. Probably because the system itself was way too poor to implement it (unlike those old typical Chinese phones [e.g. my old D-ONE]), but I obviously don't know.
• No default wallpaper on it's own watch face home screen, just plain pitch black.
• It obviously didn't support any pictures or images that had larger file sizes. That also applied to the certain music files and their certain file formats of the same size traits too.
• Some dud (false option) apps like Facebook, Twitter, and even Whatsapp that were present on it. I tried to open any of them, but none of them would do so.
• No Wi-Fi, just some obsolete GPRS and WAP connections.
• No headphone jack.

4. Final times with it...

With all of it's own features and flaws that it had, it did it's job just okay for certain things, such as remote Bluetooth media player (albeit it's own speakers sounded so tiny), pedometer (which I didn't think if that actually worked), and some other basic stuffs that I could do with it. Until at the end of the day with it, I was having a bad day about why that thing always malfunctioning like so, yet that made it even better because one of it's own straps broke off... During that time I decided to end it's life because how obviously crap it was, I was really mad about how it kept malfunctioning again and again, especially for that one major flaw where it still kept shutting the thing itself off by any certain hits to it, even with one of it's own straps broke off. Well, because of that still existed, I decided to do it even harder by simply drowning it into the saltwater first, but of course I had to rescue the SIM card (if I ever used it to send SMS or other communication stuffs that involved it, otherwise it was so painfully pointless) and the 2 GB microSD card that I used for it, so... After I drowned into the saltwater, the screen suddenly went all white, but for some reason, it didn't shut off if I dropped it or tapped it hard. It also made the thing itself felt a bit warm too during that occurred... Then, I hit the screen really hard until the protective glass got shattered, yet the crappy LCD itself also broken too, even though I obviously couldn't see anything from it anymore because it was shorted with the screen still went white... Finally, I finished the rest of it off by smashing the whole thing into a lot of small pieces yet I burned it too. And that was it, even though I rescued some of what's left from the "stupid" watch itself, I actually kept it's own battery for some reason until it got swollen by itself, which I ended up "hauling" it off later on.

Well, there you have it for my experience with that cheapo "stupid" watch. Exactly what the title of this post says, this was obviously the worst experience of using it, not only the fact it's way too obsolete, it also because it was utterly painful for using it as a sub-daily driver device... This was also definitely the scam almost similarly like what he discovered in that particular there (but under different reason), because I thought it was some sort of cheap Android Wear watch that looked quite unique, but it turned out that was one of those cheapo generic "smart" watch with their own cheap operating systems that they embedded them into that, which didn't work that well... I think that's pretty much it from what I could say to that cheapo crap that I already got rid of, and hope you can pay full attention about what I experienced with that, or even other cheap techs that you may feel often disappointing with any of them, so.

Didn't win the "giveaway", yet total waste of money...📨➡💸

Courtesy: Freepik.com that authors this picture

Okay so, let me tell you about something that may feel cringe for you, it's because this was occurred since somewhere in the last month until today. It's basically some sort of so-called giveaway that was being held in sake for an annual promo by that one shady "online" shop by sending them some physical mails to my mom's name on them in order to win those grand prizes (including some of their bonus prizes too). But, instead of exactly what I and she expected about, they kept doing it's own rules by buying their own cheap, overpriced products 5 times in a row that made both of us wasted our money really badly... Well, without further ado with this particular problem, let me tell you about the overall story about why this occurred by all of the sudden that already wasted her money.

1. First glance_📨

At first glance, that mail looked exactly what I and my mom would expect, which was winning their own grand prizes from that "online" shop's annual promo. FYI, I ever received the same kind of mail from several years ago, but I didn't even reply it due to I didn't know what kind of procedure in order to win it by the way... Until somewhere in the last month, we both decided to follow their own rules that they printed on the sheet of ordering form that they provided, alongside with the catalog that they sent them to both of us too. We both decided to buy a small kitchen pan set that costed around 29 bucks by transferring her money into the company itself, then we both decided to sent it back using it's own reply envelope that came with it into the company itself in order to win it through the post office. 📤

2. Another mail...📨

After we both waited for least 2 weeks to send it, apparently they sent both of us another mail from them if we both would want to win their grand prize that they provided... Instead, she must buy another item that they provided on another ordering form that they sent them to both of us, alongside with another catalog that they provided on them too. Not only just that, they also sent both of us some sort of certificate if she would won that grand prize, so I had to save it. Anyway, she decided to buy a stacking meal basket for around 36 bucks by transferring her money into them, again. Then, we both decided to sent it back using another one of it's own reply envelope that also came with it into the company itself in order to win it through the post office, again. 📤

3. Yet another mail...📨

After 2 days I sent the last mail, they sent both of us yet another mail from them if we both would want to win their grand prize that they provided... Instead, she must do another repeating task in order to win it, even though she already wasted a lot of money from her bank account. The only difference between last mail that they sent them to both of us; this time, they also sent both of us a receipt if we both also won a bonus prize, so I had to save it also. With yet another form and catalog that they provided, she decided to buy a bros that costed 29 bucks by transferring her money into them, yet again. Then, we both decided to sent it back using yet another one of it's own reply envelope that also came with it into the company itself in order to win it through the post office, yet again. 📤

4. ANOTHER MAIL! 📨

Again and again, after around 2 days we both sent the last mail, they sent both of us ANOTHER mail from them we both would want to win their grand prize that they provided... Instead, they received both of us ANOTHER form and ANOTHER catalog! Even though she wasted her money even more due to this, she decided to buy some sort of needle set that also costed 29 bucks by transferring her money into them, again and again. With ANOTHER repeating task in order to win it (again), we both also decided to sent it back using ANOTHER one of it's own reply envelope that also came with it into the company itself in order to win it through the post office, again and again. 📤

5. YET ANOTHER MAIL!! But... 📨

Yet again and again, after few days we both sent the last mail, they sent both of us YET ANOTHER mail from them if we both almost won their grand prize that they provided. But, they sent to both of us with incorrect home address that was printed on the mail itself, due to the address that they printed on there was my old home's address, and we both obviously moved into our current home since several years ago. Things were getting intense due to the fact she already lost a lot of money from previous purchases 4 times in a row that made her didn't want to process it this time. Even though they claimed if she almost won it, judging by the particular form that they provided (that also included some sort of winning card that also they provided to glue it on the form itself), but she decided to cancel it due to she worried if we both would do this again and again, they also would send even more of those mails infinitely per each of the row... Well, because of this, she already lost a lot of money due to previous 4 purchases that she did in order to win it, but eventually, she also got a SMS from them if her grand prize just got stalled in their place due to the fact we both didn't send it back ASAP... I had no idea whether if this was true or not, because I also worried if I sent that particular mail back to the company itself, they would sent both of us even more of those mails all over again, not rewarding the main thing itself instead which made me really frustrated too, regardless of how many times yet how much that we both would pay into them, so.

Well, after we both did a research about all of those products that she bought them from, turned out if all of those items that they sell on there were freaking cheap! For example, that kitchen mini pan set originally costed around ONLY 5 bucks. What a total ripoff! Anyway, there you have it for this particular issue that recently occurred that made her lost a lot of money from her bank account really badly... I don't know if this is definitely the most deliberate scam that they did to both of us, because unlike that one Instagram illegal scammer that they did to her that occurred from almost more than a year ago, this one made her lost a lot of money just twice as that one, even though all of those overpriced cheap products are already in here..... Or isn't it though, by the looks of it unlike those naughty, illegal online scammers out there?

We both are broke now...💸💸💸💸

Another weird YouTube's bot comments...

"These particular comments like that have started couple years ago. So the culprit were creating the porn site via Google Sites, and after that, the culprit were buying the domain links (e.g. x, y, etc.) and then spread it on YouTube through the comments box by post the video duration and certain porn site links. It's some legit and I really have no idea what purpose it is serving."-Risky Juliandief

Yes, really! As what I clearly showed in my 3 pictures of those of those weird YouTube's bot comments right there. It is pretty much similar to "Wanna be friends" bot comments that I encountered from a while ago in terms about how any of the random idiot culprit bots posted them right off the bat in every single of my latest videos that I uploaded on YouTube, sometimes. Except this time, any of the idiot culprit bots who commented like that are way too random, unlike the "Wanna be friends" ones that they did, which were less random (well, it was random but not too random like this one). For the way how they commented in every single of my new videos that I uploaded on YouTube, here's the formula about the weird comments that I'm talking about in here: 

(random timestamp of the video)

(random S*** site) 

I know if this type of bot comments looks even more sketchy than the previous one that they did, but from what I discovered through some YouTube videos that explains those bot comments, those wild site URL links are leads to some sort of a S***** hot dating porn "sus" site (well, majority of those wild links are leads to them, but the rest of them are just leads to something other than those "sus" sites, like an online shop or something different). Here are few YouTube videos from the channels who explained them, but not all of the links that they discovered, because all of the links that one of the guys clicked are always leads to the same site from one way to another.

This one, yeah... It leads to 404. Good!

And here's the guy who clicks one of those wild porn "sus" sites directly. 

WARNING: There are some F****** nude S*** pictures or images in those links of these videos that he opened there.

Now, in relation about this issue, how about the same bot comments that also appears in both of my YouTube channels that I have? Well, I've just let them be like that without any certain action by replying them, because I've just don't bother to reply to them anyway. All I have to do with them when that occurs next time is obviously report them as an unwanted spam, and that's literally it. Just like what I did to those "Wanna be friends" mumbo-jumbo that got solved, either I deleted them immediately or reported them as an unwanted spam per each of those comments, I also treat these bot comments similarly to that one as well, but slightly more improved due to the fact how random they are (again, more random than the "Wanna be friends" ones).

Well, there you have it for this post that explains of another weird YouTube's bot comments that appears lately, especially when I upload every single of my latest videos, sometimes. I hope you can pay full attention for this, and thanks for reading this post.