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  • Why you shouldn’t order directly from SAMSUNG.COM online shop

    This is my first time to order directly from SAMSUNG Online Shop, and I was very disappointed. This is my own personal experience, I would like to warn others before anyone attempts to place an order at samsung.com/ph online shop.

    Their ecommerce store logistics is terrible. Probably the worst in the world. It’s just sad as it’s the official online web store of Samsung in the Philippines but they actually don’t care about their customers. If you’re not patient enough, then you will be very disappointed.

    I placed an order last year, and my order still didn’t arrive.

    Did follow-up my order multiple times via online chat support, phone call, and e-mail. They will just tell you that they escalated it, expedited it, and already created a ticket for it. But still, nothing happened.

    My order is stuck somewhere in the warehouse of some uknown courier called Lite Xpress. They provided a tracking number, but it cannot be found in their website. It just shows how they are very disorganized and the store logistics isn’t properly managed.

    I read in some Samsung forums that orders really take a long time to arrive, even smartphones. Their few days to 1 week delivery time frame in Metro Manila or 2 weeks in provinces isn’t realistic. If you check their FAQs, they have lied on their delivery lead time.

    https://www.samsung.com/ph/shop-faq/shipping-and-delivery/how-long-before-i-receive-my-order/

    If you check the Samsung community forums, you will find multiple cases of delayed delivery. At first, I thought it’s just those smart phones that are so in demand and is already out of stock as inventory isn’t managed well. But to my surprise, it’s all of their items.

    Better to order your Samsung products on Shopee, or even Lazada. They have better delivery service and courier tracking.

    Just avoid Samsung.com online shop. Or if you really want to order there, I suggest just use COD so that your money won’t be placed on hold for many months or even a year.

  • GOMO No Expiry Data is false advertising

    My GOMO sim card just expired last May and I recently found out about it because I can’t use the 100GB+ of data I saved due to the fact that I think my data won’t expire.

    After reading their TOS, there’s in fact a data expiration if your sim card expired. So it’s useless to just save data and use it in case of emergency.

    I have a total of 135GB of unused GOMO data that goes wasted as it expired.

    So beware if you’re saving your data and will just use it in case of emergency, because GOMO’s no expiry data is not true at all.

    And too bad for me, I didn’t read the terms of service, and loaded an additional 299 pesos yesterday. I thought my data was just expired, so I purchased additional data to use my sim but it’s no longer in service. Goodbye additional load and goodbye 135GB of unused data. LOL!

    If only they had a warning, just like Australia’s Yes! Optus app that your sim will expire if there’s no paid transaction within a year, then I should have purchased additional data. GOMO shouldn’t hide this important rule in the TOS as 99% of customers don’t read the terms and conditions of service.

    Everyone expects a “NO EXPIRY DATA” as advertised, won’t expect that their data will be gone after a year.

    I’m sad that this happened to me, but lesson learned.

    If it’s too good to be true, it ain’t true.

  • Useful dApps on the Terra Ecosystem

    As you may know by now, I’m all into DeFi, mostly on Terra. I’m gonna share with you the useful dApps, aka decentralized protocols that I use on Terra. There are so many dapps now vs last year. At the beginning of 2021 and the launch of COL-5 (Terra’s biggest mainnet upgrade) earlier this year, the number of users and dapps in the ecosystem went to an all time high.

    People flocked into Terra and it did jump from sub $1 to around $50-ish as of today while I’m writing this blog post.

    I’m deep in the Terra ecosystem where 99% of my assets are now on Terra, including NFTs.

    Here are some of the dapps I use the most everyday, on Terra.

    1. Anchor Protocol (app.anchorprotocol.com) – the second, and most successful dapp on Terra with the high TVL of almost 6 billion dollars. Yep, it just started this year and it has that much total value locked. This is where I borrow UST to buy more LUNA using my bonded LUNA. You can also save your stabelcoins here and earn a fixed 20% interest every year. So far, it’s the best savings protocol in the entire crypto industry.

    2. Nexus Protocol (terra.nexusprotocol.app) – the recently launched dapp on Terra. This is where I provide liquidy on nLUNA-Psi and Psi-UST assets. I also stake them and earn a steady drip of Psi daily. Psi is the governance token of Nexus Protocol and it’s currenty valued at 30 cents each. If you lock your bLUNA in here, you get nLUNA in in your wallet and it maximizes yield just like you have a maxed out TVL on Anchor. You can also stake more ANC in Anchor governance to get more Psi in your wallet!

    3. Coinhall.org – A useful tool to track assets on the Terra ecosystem. It’s basically my homepage now. Another useful one is finder.extraterrestrial.money. That’s my second favorite now as I love the UI on Coinhall better.

    4. Terra Station – Of course, because without this, I won’t be able to connect to all Terra dapps. This should be #1 in my list.

    5. Osmosis Zone (app.osmosis.zone) – Now you can trade Terra assets in here due to the fact that Terra is recently integrated with the IBC and assets in Terra specially LUNA and UST are now listed in Osmosis. Osmosis is a decentralized AMM in the Cosmos, with its own chain, called… you guessed it! Osmosis! You can provide liquidity here and stake your LP to make more moolahs. It’s like an automated money making machine. My current pools here are JUNO-ATOM, JUNO-OSMO. This dapps is not really within the Terra ecosystem, but I just love to share it with you guys.

    That’s all for now!

  • I’m super bullish on LUNA, FTM and SAITO

    Lately, I’ve been heavily involved in the cryptocurrency space and I invested 100% of my saving into crypto, specially LUNA and FTM. If you filter it on Coicodex and see what coins has the highest gains since last year these two bad boys are the 4th and 5th with highest ROI.

    I missed out on exponential gains with those meme and game coins, but I didn’t regret. Already made 17 million and 16 million percent on my two heavy bags. I bought them because of fundamentals and not just hype.

    I won’t be describing Terra LUNA and Fantom in this blog post as there are many resources you can find online about those two. Just DYOR, ok?

    Next investment that I’m looking into is SAITO. It’s something new and there are only a few resources online that you can find about it.

    It’s best to follow them on Twitter for the latest updates about this all-new L1 blockchain that hasn’t fully launched yet. It’s meant to solve something that you didn’t think it’s a decentralization problem, but it is. Once again, better to DYOR and be early on this one.

    I predict by Q2 of 2022, the SAITO token will be above $1. This is not a financial advise, but I’m just sharing my alpha. LOL.

    Enjoy your crypto journey as I’m enjoying mine. See you on the moon anon!

  • So many WP updates, so little time!

    Just found out that there’s a new version of WordPress! Since I haven’t upgraded my blog for a long time, I’m upgrading it now. Last version since I last logged in was 5.7.3. Now I just jumped to 5.8.1. What’s new here? I really don’t know. I guess there’s something new with the text editor but I’ve been using the Classic editor plugin and I don’t plans in switching for the next 10 years or so.

    What kept me busy during the last few months? Aside from my work here in Singapore, I’ve been busy with trading cryptocurrencies. I’m into DeFi and NFTs too!

    I added a new category here in my blog called “Cryptocurrency” and will be updating this more often as I have a lot to share on my crypto journey! Stay tuned!

  • WooCommerce: Add a product to cart automatically based on another product’s variation ID

    If you want to add a product to your cart based on another product’s ID or variation or a configurable product, then this code snippet might help. Was searching how to do this until I found one in Stack Overflow. The function is based on the first code example on this website post:
    https://www.tychesoftwares.com/how-to-automatically-add-a-product-to-your-woocommerce-cart-in-3-different-scenarios/

    Basically, that code adds a specific product to cart based on the item’s category. So If added a product from category XYZ, then another item, a free one or not, will also be added to your woocommerce cart automatically.

    But what if you want to add a product based on the options selected on a configurable product / variable product. Then the code below will help do exactly what you need

    function bv_atc() {
    if ( sizeof( WC()->cart->get_cart() ) > 0 ) {
    foreach( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $values ) {
    $a = array(10,20,30);
    $b = array(40,50,60);

    if( in_array( $values['variation_id'], $a ) ) {
    WC()->cart->add_to_cart(1);
    } else if ( in_array( $values['variation_id'], $b ) ) {
    WC()->cart->add_to_cart(2);
    } else {
    //if you want to do something else like adding a random item, do it here.
    }
    }
    }
    add_action( 'woocommerce_add_to_cart', 'bv_atc', 10, 2 );

    Just add the code snippet to your functions.php and replace the values in the array. In my array I have two sets of items. Each item will add a different product to cart.

    Just add more if conditions if you have other items that you want to be added to your cart based on the selected variations of a specific product.

    Credits to Shaikh at Stackoverflow:
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68077784/check-if-this-variation-id-exists-in-cart-then-add-another-item-to-cart

  • Divi Blog Grid breaks when Minify JavaScript Files is enabled

    If you’ve noticed that your Divi blog grid breaks after you enable JS minifaction using any plugin, then you just need to exclude the custom.js from /themes/Divi/js/custom.js to be minified. This will fix the issue.

    I haven’t checked what’s in this Javascript file yet that doesn’t want to be minified, but that fixes the problem anyway.

    I encountered this first when I enabled Minify JavaScript Files using SG Optimizer plugin. Not sure if it’s the same issue with other minification plugins, but I suppose it is.

    For other Divi issues or question you may have, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below. I will gladly help you out.

  • Better late than never! Just upgraded to WP 5.7!

    Yep, I do manual updates and I recently updated this WP blog to the latest version, which is 5.7. On a user’s perspective, nothing seems to be new as I’m using the classic editor. I hate the Gutenberg editor and they have a new one now, it seems like Gutenberg, but an improved one.

    Automattic also said that the dashboard has a simplier color palette. But I didn’t notice any significant difference. Only the button seems to be using a lighter blue color compared to the blue color before.

    As you can see in the screenshot below, nothing’s really new.

    Looking forward for more WordPress updates in the future. For now, I’ll still be using the classic editor. It’s simple, it’s clean, and it’s classic. No other drag and drop gimmicks, just plain old text and plain old code. You can actually do whatever you want with no code bloat vs dnd page/post editors.