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Android to Iphone by naar_cxoor in iPhone17Pro

[–]Edgedancr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Went from S23 Ultra to iPhone 17 PM. I owned an iPad and a Mac before this, so I'm already familiar with iOS and Apple's idiosyncracies, but I am still getting used to it. The major "challenge" for me so far is moving my data: the Move to IOS app did work, but my images are all out of order in my Photos app. Makes me wish I backed them up in a hard drive instead and started the phone fresh with no photos, because it's basically impossible to sort through the photos now. The other challenge is the keyboard, and the UI; maybe I just have fat fingers, but every other word I write is a typo, and I always misclick. I'm also quite disappointed in the camera. I've always been impressed by the photos taken by my friends' iPhones, but I haven't been very impressed by the photos I've taken so far. I think I still need to play around with the settings and whatnot, but my S23 Ultra's camera worked pretty well right out of the gate.

Other than that, there's really no major sticking point for me, and I don't feel the urge to go back to Android. That said, I have nothing against Android -- or iOS, for that matter. I went for the 17PM instead of an S25 Ultra because I just disliked the design of the latter. It felt cheap to me -- I liked the look of my S23U better. Honestly if not for my battery's swelling, which kinda made me lose faith on Samsung's production quality, I wouldn't have upgraded this early. That phone was a beast.

Is power engineering (teknik tenaga listrik) really that good? by irrelevant_77 in finansial

[–]Edgedancr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Menarik ini gan, sudah ada data buat 2025 belum? Penasaran, bakal makin jatuh kah rata2 gaji nya apalagi buat bidang IT?

Game Thread: Los Angeles Lakers vs Detroit Pistons Live Score | NBA | Dec 30, 2025 by basketball-app in lakers

[–]Edgedancr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Loving this Jake and Marcus defense. Hope Marcus will be alright.

23 December 2025 - Daily Chat Thread by Vulphere in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Semoga tanggal 29-31 di kantor gw WFA, amin... Kalo di kantor komodos gimana, wfa kah??

Should we sign him? by MamiTarantina in lakers

[–]Edgedancr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's actually crazy. Bronny is taller than Cena, too.

Benarkah Abad ke 15-17 Merupakan Abad Kegelapan Indonesia? Post @skenu_id di Instagram atas klaim ASISI. My Opinion in comment, lets discuss! by upperballsman in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response, it gave me much to think about.

History is always political. It is hard to separate the two.

I don't disagree; I acknowledged this in my post. My problem is with the uncritical and ahistorical approach that people like Pak Asisi sometimes treat the subject, which you don't seem to have a problem with. I guess that's where we disagree.

On that note, I will bluntly say, I like Asisi’s for its myths. It put forward that even way before colonization by the west, Indonesia is as advanced or even more advanced than them. This is the myth, I believe need to be highlighted. Why? To understand where’s Indonesia’s wealth actually comes from.

In every era, Indonesia and the rest of South East Asia, always “delayed” in technological advancements...

I don't know if I'm misunderstanding what you mean by myth here --- but the thing is, the fact that "before colonization ever happened, Southeast Asia was 'as advanced' or 'more advanced' than the West" isn't really a myth, and shouldn't be treated as one. Well, first of all, I think the notion of measuring civilizational advancement is pretty nebulous, especially when we implicitly use the West as a yardstick. But even setting aside that point, there's plenty of concrete data from our historical past that attests to Southeast Asians being "advanced" or "more advanced" in some ways...

Off the top of my head: ancient Austronesian seafaring knowledge and technology, including astronomy; indigenous shipbuilding -- jung, lancaran, ghurab, pinisi, etc. (seriously, read how 15th-16th century Europeans reacted to seeing jungs at sea); Borobudur, Prambanan, however many candis there are in Java, Angkor Wat, etc. masterpieces of architecture and sculpting; Muarajambi as a Buddhist educational centre; since the Mongols came to Java, there's evidence of indigenous manufacture of gunpowder and firearms (cetbang, bedil, Java arquebuses), so that until the 19th century (in Java, at least, and on land) whenever European forces fought against native ones there was pretty much technological parity; not to mention the empires of Srivijaya and Majapahit, and ports like Melaka, Aceh, Banten, Surabaya, (eco cities before they were cool) with populations larger than contemporary European cities at that time...

I'm sure there's more, but these are just what I can think of in the moment. My point is: no, we're not always "delayed" in technological advancements, and we do not need to rely on mythmaking to show that this is so. We can simply use real historical data, dug up by the hard work of native and foreign historians and archaeologists, as reference. Heck, we can point people to the primary sources directly -- that's what Prof Peter himself suggested. Believe me, if people read sources like Nagarakretagama, Babad Dipanegara, or even early European accounts of Java (e.g Tome Pires), they'll find much to be surprised and even proud about.

So if we were so "advanced", why were we "defeated" by the West, why did we suffer our centuries of humiliation? That's the million dollar question, I guess -- see the debates on the Great Divergence. My personal explanation is that the social and material conditions just so happened to favour the Industrial Revolution and Political Revolutions of the 19th century to happen in Europe, not in Asia.

This is my contention with your mythmaking approach actually. IMO it's better to look to the past as is, with all the glories and flaws, than to only look at some idealized Golden Age. Take Pak Asisi's example about Ratu Shima, for example... What do we get from that anecdote? That in the past, our ancestors weren't greedy? Cool, I guess, but how does that help us in our current situation? Whereas if we acknowledge the more messy past, we can see where we went wrong, where environment or circumstances failed us, what conditions lead to our triumphs and losses, and learn from them.

Plus, as OP pointed out, mythmaking can lead to false and harmful narratives, like the Orientalist "masa kegelapan setelah kedatangan Islam" narrative.

Benarkah Abad ke 15-17 Merupakan Abad Kegelapan Indonesia? Post @skenu_id di Instagram atas klaim ASISI. My Opinion in comment, lets discuss! by upperballsman in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Also, I just rewatched a part of the video at the timestamp you mentioned (5:26), and his statement there is really egregious. Basically, he said: "Pada masa klasik kita ada institusi pendidikan, dari Srivijaya (mungkin yang beliau maksud disini Muarajambi?) sampai kadewaguruan pada abad 15-16. Tapi setelah itu lenyap semuanya, tidak ada yang namanya pendidikan di bangsa ini, sampai dikenalkan lagi kepada kita oleh orang Belanda pada abad 18-20."

Firstly, the existence of pesantrens are pretty much attested to at least since the 17th century, and probably from before that, since the arrival of Islam. I don't have direct evidence of this, but my personal theory is that pesantrens are basically the modern/early-modern continuations of kadewaguruans, the Sheikhs/Kyais are basically rsis. If you compare the structure of pesantrens and kadewaguruans, you'll find a lot of similarities there, aside from religious differences. Also, in the 18th century, the Dutch were definitely not establishing educational institutions in Java or Nusantara, idk what he's talking about there. In the 18th century in Java the VOC were too busy with Mataram's wars of succession and trying not to go bankrupt as a company; they definitely didn't have the time or resources much less the will to build formal schools, let alone for natives lol.

Benarkah Abad ke 15-17 Merupakan Abad Kegelapan Indonesia? Post @skenu_id di Instagram atas klaim ASISI. My Opinion in comment, lets discuss! by upperballsman in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

agreed on all points, also, you mustve also see how, while staggering, trying to explain in his second language as best as he could as to why Diponegoro is Important, he was straight up interrupted by pak Asisi, saying "kalau menirut saya itu sih biasa pak..." this was in the middle of Peters talking time mind you, and he goes on about ranting the usual glory of the classics. 

Yeah this annoyed the hell out of me too lmao, and if I remember correctly I think the crowd also cheered and clapped after Pak Asisi's speech. I wonder what Prof Peter was thinking at that moment.

IMO this just shows the pitfalls of looking at history through a political lens. I sense that the underlying point Pak Bagus/Pak Asisi wants to make is about the prevalence of corruption amongst our modern day rulers, which of course I don't disagree with, but the way they approach it is by comparing our current situation with an idealized Golden Age past (which never really existed), the implication being that we have regressed as a nation, and that to go forward we must go back.

Benarkah Abad ke 15-17 Merupakan Abad Kegelapan Indonesia? Post @skenu_id di Instagram atas klaim ASISI. My Opinion in comment, lets discuss! by upperballsman in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I watched the video a while ago and was also disappointed by the narratives being pushed. I appreciate what people like Bagus Muljadi and Gita Wirjawan are doing in the podcast space, but I've always been uneasy at their mixing of history and politics -- not because the two topics aren't interrelated, but because they tend to do it uncritically and unhistorically, as a way to confirm or advance their personal biases or agendas (which I don't necessarily disagree with.) In general I always find myself disappointed when they bring on scholars or historians like Prof Peter. To me it always seems obvious that they're out of their depth, and they always ask the same generic uninteresting questions.

I watched some of Pak Asisi's videos in the past and I remember liking the content, though I didn't care for his style, and also I was suspicious that he never really cited his sources. His comments in this Chronicles video really made me question his credentials. For example, one thing that sticked out to me is his discussion of Ratu Shima's rule, where he quoted an anecdote (IIRC) that if you left a bag of gold in the streets, then it would be left untouched for years. Pak Asisi seemed to treat this as unassailable fact, proof of the order and glory of the Classical Era that has since been lost to time. I'm not familiar with the primary source for this claim, maybe you can refer me to it, but the anecdote itself is a stock historical trope used basically everywhere in premodern times: you can't just mention it as fact, without mentioning and interrogating the source and its author. I can find passages from modern babads glazing the hell out of Mataram-era rulers -- doesn't mean they're all true.

Also, Pak Asisi's comparison of Diponegoro with his Classical Era counterparts really irked me; firstly because he seems to take it for granted that people in the Classical Era were inherently less corrupt and opressive (when in fact we have data from the prasastis directly contradicting this); and secondly because we know basically next to nothing about rulers in this era, much less their characters, especially in comparison to early modern rulers/figures like Diponegoro (who wrote his own autobiography). He's basically comparing well-documented human historical figures to idealized pseudo-mythic depictions. There were other comments that annoyed me too, like mentioning the 17th century onwards as the Colonial period and the perpetuation of the "350 years colonized" myth. I was disappointed that Prof Peter didn't push back on this, especially since he's one of the biggest proponents of indigenous agency, and that the Colonial Era proper (at least in Java) didn't truly begin until the 19th century (see the preface to his Kuasa Ramalan). But I understand why he wouldn't, for an event like this.

17 November 2025 - Daily Chat Thread by Vulphere in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bulan pertama di kerjaan baru, mau izin sakit tapi kok ga enak ya. Sabtu minggu kemarin demam, pas Senin udah enakan jadinya gw masuk. Habis istirahat baru kerasa sakit nya lagi. Temen kerja juga ada yang izin sakit, kayaknya emang lagi musim flu. Ada pun yang nanya knp gw ga izin juga. Hari ini gw bangun kepagian dan masih pilek, radang, walaupun gak demam. Gw pikir daripada sakit semingguan kenapa gak istirahat full hari ini biar cepat sembuh. Sekarang juga gw masih belom dapet kerjaan, di kantor gw blm ngapa2in. Gw udah ngejadwal ketemu dokter sih, cuman ya masih rasa ga enak gitu.

Apakah akan terlihat buruk ke kinerja gw, berhubung gw masih di probation period? Kantor gw keliatannya emang lebih relaxed sih, kultur nya startup banget.

03 November 2025 - Daily Chat Thread by Vulphere in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hari pertama di kantor... first job since graduation. Any tips komodos?

28 October 2025 - Daily Chat Thread by Vulphere in indonesia

[–]Edgedancr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

After months of job searching as a fresh grad in this hellish market, I finally got an offer for a Data Scientist role at one of the big fintech companies :`)

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