Welcome back .... ME!
Hi!
Many people have noticed that on some social media platforms I have been quiet for some time now, there's a very good reason for this... My laptop.
My laptop is what helps me to create content, be it in written form like this or in video form for youtube. It is what I consider, a bit of a money maker for me, since I get paid for most of the content I create.
In July of this year however, I was creating a BevRants video for my youtube channel. Now when I go to record these I use a USB headset, because I've found in the past laptop mic's are kinda crappy and tend to pick up more background noise and make you sound really far away, even when you're not. I recorded the video as I would have normally but began to want to take the headset off, which I did. I un-plugged the headphones and... no sound. It is a problem I had delt with once before, but I was halfway through editing, I didn't want to have to come back to the work (editing my video's is what a person could so easily call a living hell).
I finished off the video and a small while later, I reset the laptop, the sound was back on... but not for long. Infact, over the night, I had many problems trying to get the sound to work once again, so it wasn't too long before I took the laptop back to where it had been bought.
Let's face it, in December last year when my other half Suny said "I'll buy you a laptop for Christmas", we didn't get a cheap one. At just short of £700 it was one of the most expensive things I think I have ever been given. It's mainly though because of the processor on the inside of the laptop, called an i7. i7 can manage ultra HD video, it can be quick to create the content I want to, it looks good, feels good... this was the laptop for me, only, now things were going wrong.
The staff at curries at first tried to boot up the laptop in store, it was taking a while so was booked in to see what this problem was, nothing about the sound. So you can imagine a week later when I go to get the laptop back out of repair, it wasn't long before the sound issue came back, as did the laptop, to them.
4 times all in all the laptop was sent back, before I received the letter saying "I've replaced the motherboard" which is what I had been saying was at fault. I knew it wasn't a software issue, yet I've nearly had arguments with the staff who have said it must be something I have been doing, or that it IS a software fault, to which I said "If it was a software fault, why am I back with the same problem again".
Needless to say this is the very short version of the story... but what is the plan now the laptop is back.
Well, this version of LWB and BevRants are what I class as "Irregular Uploads", meaning there's no schedule as to when content goes live on these things, which is fine, I can go back to doing them when i'm ready.
The video version of LWB is what is causing me the biggest heart ache of all. It got to the point I was doing weekly uploads on the FLT channel and it was getting to be a headache because so much was going on in my life that I couldn't talk about on camera for fear of pissing somebody off or having to be told "you should take that down" to which my answer is always a pleasant "no". I think I will return to doing the LWB video's, but I don't think it will be anytime soon.
See one of the biggest challenges I have involves my BevRants channel, which soon will be having it's 100th video go live on the channel... and there's a LOT happening for that, which is going to be a lot of work, but hopefully, it'll go down well on the channel... but that again is something I can't talk about... or, more, won't, because I want to keep the surprise!
Anyways, that's the short version of the story... hopefully i'll be back on here sometime soon with some fun stuff or thought provoking stuff... whatever earns me money hey!
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