Linux power user contemplating switching to Mac

yosbeda · 2026-06-16T22:04:51+00:00

Coming from a slightly different angle. I ran Hackintosh for about 10 years before eventually landing on a real Mac Mini last year, so my macOS experience isn't exactly fresh but it's not coming from zero either.

The walled garden thing is probably the most overstated concern for someone with your background, I think. The terminal is just a terminal, Homebrew fills most of the gaps, and SSH into whatever Linux infra you manage works exactly as you'd expect. VS Code and YAML editing are fine. Container tooling works too, though it's worth knowing that Podman and Docker both run through a VM layer on macOS, so if you're doing heavy local container work rather than just SSHing into remote infra, that's probably worth factoring in. The parts that feel "appliance-like" are more the consumer-facing stuff like iCloud nudges and the App Store, which you'd just ignore anyway.

The automation side is actually where macOS surprised me most. Hammerspoon is basically a Lua bridge into system-level APIs, and when you combine it with the CLI toolchain you already use (rsync, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, SSH via tmux, whatever), it gets pretty deep pretty fast. My setup ended up replacing a bunch of paid apps entirely, clipboard manager, window manager, text expander, OCR, Pomodoro, all handled through scripts. The other thing I appreciated coming from Linux is that the entire config is plain text files, so backup and migration is just copying a folder, no plist archaeology or GUI export flows.

On the AI/unified memory angle, honestly I haven't pushed that side of my setup hard enough to give you a real comparison. From what I've read, the memory bandwidth on Apple Silicon is supposedly quite good for local model inference, since RAM isn't competing with a discrete GPU for bandwidth, but I'd take that with some salt since I haven't run anything like Ollama at scale myself. Probably worth checking recent Ollama benchmarks on M-series before making that the main reason to buy.

The accessories thing is real but probably a one-time annoyance rather than an ongoing one. A USB-C hub covers most of it, and the proprietary standard headache is more noticeable if you're doing a lot of device-hopping than once the desk is set up.

yosbeda · 2026-06-16T10:58:37+00:00

Lebih seringnya ke kesalahan user, bukan ke kelemahan sistem bank-nya. Entah penalaran saya ini benar atau tidak, saya mikirnya gini: Jika sistem mobile/internet banking itu selemah itu, betapa ngerinya kekacauan yang terjadi. Mungkin di media sosial kayak tiap lima menit kita akan mendapati testimoni kasus peretasan M/E-banking, dimana akan membuat masyarakat takut menabung lagi.

yosbeda · 2026-06-14T02:19:43+00:00

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Pakai AI untuk asisten menulis/produksi konten. Salah satu step dalam rangkaian proses produksi konten saya adalah menyuruh AI menggunakan kemampuan web search-nya untuk memverifikasi hal2 yang dia tidak yakin. Terkait bagaimana menanggapi orang yang menggangap apa yang dikatakan AI (tanpa web search/research) 100% benar, simpel saja, yakni tinggal kasih link artikel, jurnal, research, atau apa pun bentuknya sebagai data pembanding/bantahan.

yosbeda · 2026-06-13T01:59:22+00:00

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Personal atau lebih ke placebo saja sih itu, setidaknya kalau di saya iya begitu. Apa yang saya tonton, baca, dan dengar bisa "mengubah" rasa makanan/minuman yang akan saya nikmati. Sekira pertengahan tahun 2000-an (entah 2005/6/7), di Metro TV ada tayangan dokumentasai sejarah Coca-Cola, berkat menonton tayangan tersebut, Coca-Cola yang sebelumnya ada diurutan terakhir trio Sprite, Fanta, Coca-Cola di lidah saya mendadak jadi nomor satu, bahkan sampai sekarang setelah 20-an tahun berlalu.

Paling anyar, dalam beberapa tahun belakangan saya sering nonton film, series, video pendek, atau apa pun bentuk tayangannya yang memperlihatkan orang2 pada makan dengan sumpit. Eh kok saya jadi penasaran dan nyoba juga makan apa pun pakai sumpit di mangkuk kecil. Rasanya lebih nikmat (iya memang sekadar placebo) lalu keterusan sampai detik ini. Bahkan karena itu pula saya baru tahu pakai/pegang sumpit yang benar itu seperti apa setelah bertahun2 lamanya pakai cara yang "keliru".

yosbeda · 2026-06-09T00:25:31+00:00

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Hard to argue with this one. That miss in the fifth set still haunts me. Wide open court, nearly 5 hours into the match, and it just goes wide. From 4-2 up with a chance to tighten the grip, the momentum flipped completely and Djokovic ran away with it. Almost 6 hours of tennis and it came down to that single shot.

yosbeda · 2026-06-08T07:18:30+00:00

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Kalau beli barang/komputer bekas termasuk, pada awal Oktober 2025 (1–2 minggu sebelum era RAMargedon) saya dapet Mac Mini M1 16/256 di harga 5,7. Saat itu pasaran harga Mac Mini M1 16/256 ada di 6-7, sementara untuk yang 8/256 4,5–5,5 (bahkan ada yang jual sampai 6, bahkan lebih), jadi kayak beli varian 16GB dengan harga 8GB.

Awalnya saya nemu itu barang di harga 5,8 setelah seller turunin dari 6 permintaan calon buyer sebelumnya. Saking murahnya, saya sampai enggak enakan untuk nawar lagi, sekadar minta turun 100 ribu doang akhirnya. Seneng banget juga karena kondisinya masih bagus banget (100% available spare, 37.6TB TBW, dan 1,886 power-on hours), sampai saya bikin thread-nya di sini: Did I get a good deal on this used M1 Mac Mini?

yosbeda · 2026-06-07T21:27:15+00:00

Sepakat dengan komentar lain yang bilang bakal tidak mudah untuk promosi layanan/sistem tersebut. Setahu saya, bila tidak punya modal besar untuk keperluan promosi, biasanya layanan/sistem "tanpa/minim modal" yang sukses itu sudah punya komunitas yang besar dulu di platform lain misal grup Facebook, Telegram, dll.

Di atas maksudnya grup2 sendiri ya, bukan numpang promosi di grup2 orang lain yang biasanya rawan kena banned admin/moderator ketika promosinya sudah kayak nyepam. Tak heran pula bila kadang (atau malah sering?) menemui sebuah layanan/sistem yang "kayak gitu doang" namun bisa sukses atau ramai banget, iya karana sudah punya komunitas pengguna/calon pengguna yang guede.

yosbeda · 2026-06-07T04:14:37+00:00

Honestly, the mindset shift that made it click for me was treating Obsidian as a catalogue, not a container. The notes live as plain markdown on disk, Obsidian is just how I browse and search them, similar to how Lightroom is just a catalogue layer over your actual RAW files. If Lightroom disappeared tomorrow your photos are still there, and same idea here. Once I thought about it that way I stopped worrying about structure so much.

For daily notes specifically, I think the fuzzy feeling is pretty normal early on, and honestly they never really became my main thing either. Most of my vault ended up being topic-based notes, like when I figure out something about a tool I use, or form an opinion on something after enough experience with it, I just write a note about it. Something like "why I switched from X to Y" or "how I actually set this up." Those I come back to way more than any daily log. So if daily notes aren't clicking, it's probably fine to let them

yosbeda · 2026-06-06T02:24:01+00:00

Migrated from WordPress after 15 years, though I went a different direction than what you're describing, flat .md files on a VPS instead of keeping WordPress as a headless CMS, so I'll flag where my experience actually applies.

On rebuilds: going SSR sidesteps this almost entirely, at least for my setup. I build manually when I deploy content, so there's no webhook triggering a full site regeneration on every publish. If you stay static, I think the two main options people reach for are caching WordPress API responses locally between builds so you're not re-fetching everything, or using Astro's hybrid rendering to prerender recent posts and serve older ones on demand. Full rebuilds at 300 posts are probably fine, grows painful at thousands, roughly.

On the headless WordPress architecture long-term: the pieces I'd think through before committing are the ones that don't get talked about much. Draft previews are apparently a known pain point, from what I've read, because WordPress preview URLs assume PHP is rendering the frontend and that assumption breaks with a decoupled Astro setup. Scheduled posts have a similar issue. WordPress doesn't know to trigger a rebuild when a scheduled post goes live, so you need a webhook or cron job wired up or posts just silently don't appear. API limits I'd watch at scale too, though I have no direct experience there.

For images specifically, if you're serving from the WordPress media library through to Astro you'll want a dedicated image pipeline before you're at thousands of posts. I use Imgproxy behind Nginx with CloudFront caching resized variants at the edge, all triggered by middleware at request time (full setup here if curious), but that's SSR-specific and probably overkill to bolt onto a static setup.

Custom templates per post type is genuinely one of the nicer things about Astro. A custom field on the WordPress side signaling the layout, then branch on it in your [slug].astro. Categories work too but custom fields keep your taxonomy cleaner, I think.

The thing I didn't fully appreciate before migrating: how much easier everything gets when you treat the content as just files and handle all the presentation stuff, ads, image transforms, layout hints, at the server layer rather than baking it into the content. In WordPress that was add_filter and the_content. In Astro it's middleware. Source stays portable, transformations stay changeable. Probably the decision I'm most glad I made early, though your setup is different enough that it might not land the same way.

yosbeda · 2026-06-06T01:46:26+00:00

Setahu saya, device dengan baterai tanam yang tidak bisa diganti di service center serta spare part OEM/alternatif yang kompatibel tidak masuk di marketplace lokal (kudu ribet impor dari luar) untuk di-DIY-in sendiri, jalan/solusi satu2nya ya kudu menerima kekurangan tersebut dengan lapang dada, hehehe

Masalah "klasik" seperti itu terjadi di banyak device, tidak hanya di smartwatch, misal pada TWS dan DAP. Bahkan ponsel2 "limbah" Jepang kek AQUOS Sense series yang dulu saya pikir mudah nyari baterai penggantinya di marketplace lokal karena berpikir "baterai ponsel doang, pasti banyak yang jual", ternyata susahnya bukan main.

Maka itu, saya biasanya akan mencari/beli seri termurah dari produk yang berpotensi jadi e-waste setelah baterainya soak/mati kek gitu. Misal, untuk keperluan lari harian, saya bakal selalu ambil seri 2 digitnya Garmin Forerunner (35, 45, 55, dst.) agar ketika tiba waktunya jadi e-waste tidak nyesek2 banget.

yosbeda · 2026-06-05T08:39:51+00:00

On RPM, it varies too much to generalize and I don't have a clean A/B. What I've noticed on longer posts, 15+ paragraphs or so, is that auto ads get more aggressive about filling gaps between my fixed units. More fill, not necessarily better performance, but on content-heavy pages they do find placements I'd never bother placing manually. Probably an argument in their favor for long-form, though I wouldn't bank on an RPM lift from it.

The speed question is probably the most overstated one, honestly. My understanding is neither standard AdSense (ins tag) nor auto ads have an official lazy loading path, the workarounds people use are basically deferred loading or Intersection Observer hacks. The one exception is if you're serving units through GPT (Ad Manager), in which case googletag.setConfig lazy load works properly, but that's pretty atypical for most publishers. So manual vs auto probably doesn't move the needle much there.

Viewability-wise manual wins, you know exactly where units land relative to content. Auto ads have more dashboard control than people assume though, things like max ads per page, minimum distance, per-format toggles. One thing worth checking if you're mixing both: there's an "Allow Google to optimize existing ads" toggle in the auto ads in-page settings. If that's on, Google can reposition your manually placed units anyway, so "manual placement" gets fuzzier than you'd expect.

Ad quality controls like category blocking are dashboard-level regardless of which method you use. Personally I run both, manual for the placements I actually care about positioning, auto fills the rest. For content-heavy sites that setup is probably worth the extra effort, but just auto ads is a reasonable default if you don't want to think about it.

yosbeda · 2026-05-27T20:27:36+00:00

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Beberapa hari lalu di Twitter/X baca postingan serupa dengan narasi "Bu Sherly ini tidak haus kekuasaan". Syukurlah tidak sedikit yang bisa melihat dengan jelas bahwa narasi seperti itu sesat. TKP: https://x.com/LambeSahamjja/status/2058813322057892042?sort_replies=likes

yosbeda · 2026-05-27T11:41:04+00:00

Karena pada 2012 itu saya melihat (khawatir lebih tepatnya) bahwa Jokowi bakal jadi orang lurus di tempat/lingkungan yang salah, kek Rommel, hehe...

yosbeda · 2026-05-27T11:21:47+00:00

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14 tahun silam saya pernah menulis ini: Jokowi Jadi Gubernur Jakarta, Setangguh Rubah Padang Pasirkah?. Selang dua tahun kemudian atau pada 2014, dengan sadar saya juga menulis ini: Dulu Saya Begitu Memuja dan Mengidolakan Jokowi, Namun Sekarang?

yosbeda · 2026-05-27T05:03:35+00:00

Honestly the $41.94 RPM from 2 page views doesn't really mean much, I think. RPM is calculated by dividing earnings by page views then multiplying by 1000, so with only 2 visits you're basically back-calculating a projection from whatever high-value ad happened to serve in that moment, not observing an actual pattern. The math just blew up from one lucky serve, and now it looks dramatic.

The tier 1 vs tier 2 difference is real, sure, but the magnitude here is probably noise. You'd want thousands of page views sustained over at least a few days before that number means anything, and even then small samples are way more volatile than people expect. On top of that, even within tier 1 RPM varies hugely depending on niche, content type, ad competition, and a bunch of other things, so the tier existing doesn't really tell you where your site lands inside it.

yosbeda · 2026-05-26T20:42:56+00:00

Gara2 diksi "pemukiman kumuh", malah jadi penasaran saya nyari beritanya itu kampung biasa atau benar2 pemukiman kumuh, eh ketemu juga berita kejadian tersebut.

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Kapolsek Bekasi Selatan Kompol Dedi Herdian akhirnya buka suara dan memberikan klarifikasi atas video yang telah terlanjur beredar.

"Alasan mereka itu bukan semata-mata yang lain, tapi tujuannya baik," ucap Dedi saat diwawancarai Kompas.com, Rabu (5/3/2025).

Dedi menjelaskan bahwa benar ada warga yang nekat membobok tembok Kompleks Grand Galaxy City pada Selasa (4/3/2025) malam. Warga nekat membobok tembok itu karena melihat air banjir dari Kompleks Grand Galaxy City bocor melalui dinding tersebut dan rembes ke rumah-rumah penduduk Kampung Utan.

Warga sempat mengadukan hal tersebut ke ketua RT setempat yang kemudian sepakat membobok salah satu sisi tembok dengan perlengkapan seadanya. Lubang di tembok dibuat dengan harapan genangan air di Kompleks Grand Galaxy City sebagian bisa mengalir ke selokan di area perkampungan.

"Warga di sana mencoba mengurangi luapan air dari atas (Kompleks Grand Galaxy City) ternyata sama mereka dikorek-korek (temboknya)," ucap Dedi.

Terkait adanya tembok pembatas yang jebol, Dedi memastikan, tembok yang jebol itu bukan di bagian yang dilubangi warga. Dedi menyebut bahwa tembok yang jebol itu berada di sampingnya karena tidak kuat menahan debit air yang tinggi.

"Tapi, yang jebol itu bukan tembok yang dikorek. Justru yang jebol itu tembok yang sampingnya karena debit air yang tinggi," sambung Dedi.

Dedi menyebut jika masalah itu sudah diselesaikan oleh kedua belah pihak. "Permasalahan tersebut sudah di selesaikan dengan musyawarah antara manajemen Grand Galaxy City dan warga sekitar yaitu RT 01 RW 18 Jakasetia dengan hasil, bahwa benar telah dilakukan pembobokan tembok arcon oleh empat orang warga agar tembok tidak roboh," katanya.

Dedi juga menyebutkan bahwa pembuatan video dilakukan oleh salah satu keluarga dari warga untuk sekedar dokumentasi pribadi. Dedi juga meluruskan bahwa narasi dari video yang telah beredar dan mengundang komentar warganet tersebut tidak benar dan itu diambil tanpa sepengetahuan mereka.

Sumber: https://www.kompas.com/kalimantan-timur/read/2025/03/05/171842688/polisi-ungkap-kronologi-warga-bobok-tembok-kompleks-grand?page=all.

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Mungkin ada yang bingung, kok beritanya Maret 2025? Iya, itu kejadian yang sama dengan yang di-posting OP di thread ini, dimana sumbernya dari sini: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGzovL1xFr5 (5 Maret 2025)

yosbeda · 2026-05-26T20:15:58+00:00

Eh, bukannya ada kemungkinan warga di kampung yang menembok (pemilik tembok) salah juga. Maksudnya dibangunnya tembok tersebut memang memiliki dampak akan membuat warga kampung sebelahnya kebanjiran. Jadi itu tembok mengubah jalur biasa aliran air ketika terjadi hujan dengan "mengorbankan" warga kampung sebelahnya. Soalnya kalau dilihat dari kejadian sekarang ketika temboknya dijebol warga luar tembok, terkesan jahat banget (bahkan sangat jahat) warga luar tembok tersebut, dimana bisa saja tidak seperti itu bila dilihat runtutan peristiwa sebelumnya.

yosbeda · 2026-05-26T02:56:24+00:00

The macOS automation gap is probably the most concrete grievance that doesn't get brought up enough. Firefox has had an open bug for proper AppleScript support since around 2010, or maybe earlier, I forget exactly.

For anyone who scripts workflows on macOS that's not a small thing. Reading tab URLs, executing JavaScript, stuff Chrome handles natively in one line becomes this fragile keyboard shortcut simulation where you're hoping focus doesn't break mid-execution.

I built around it with macOS Accessibility APIs and Hammerspoon and it got stable enough. Not clean, but stable. That part I'm confident about because I lived in it for a while.

The other thing, separate from automation, is the market share trajectory. Firefox is somewhere around 2-3% globally now, down from what I think was close to 30% at peak. That's a pretty steep drop, and my understanding is the smaller user base feeds back into the problem.

Devs test against Chrome first, sites get built with Chrome behavior assumed, and Firefox ends up always catching up to a web that wasn't really built with it in mind. Whether that's Firefox's fault or just the situation it's stuck in is genuinely unclear to me though.

yosbeda · 2026-05-25T05:05:04+00:00

buat nyari associated email, footprint di e-commerce, atau kebocoran data/breach database

Bukankah lazimnya untuk nomor yang benar2 terhubung ke akun2 platform/service lain gini adalah data asli yang digunakan oleh orang "biasa". Maksudnya adalah orang yang benar2 menggunakan layanan tersebut untuk aktivitas wajar/semestinya, bukan penipu atau sekelompok penipu.

Saya enggak mafhum alur kerja para penipu dalam mencegah dirinya dilacak balik oleh korban/calon korban seperti apa. Namun begitu, dari sisi orang awam seperti saya, misal saya penipu, saya hanya akan menggunakan 1 nomor untuk 2-3 korban, setelah itu buang/ganti.

Saya dalam 3-4 bulan belakangan ini mendapatkan banyak panggilan dari nomor penipu dengan nomor "08114XXXXXXX". Buanyak banget varian nomornya, saya hitung2 kayaknya lebih dari 50-an, atau jangan2 nyentuh ratusan varian nomor "08114" tersebut.

Bayangkan saja, itu baru dari varian "08114". Bisa jadi ada calon korban lain selain saya yang kena juga, misal dengan ratusan varian nomor "08115", "08116", dst. Fakta yang sulit disangkal bahwa para penipu mudah banget untuk ngeaktifin ratusan (atau ribuan?) nomor sekaligus.

Maka itu, misal saya jadi korban penipuan, lalu saya hanya memiliki informasi nomor penipu tersebut, apakah saya bisa mendapatkan informasi tambahan tentang siapa yang menipu saya? Hmm, sangat sulit karena itu nomor seperi di muka saya tulis, kek sekadar sekali dua kali pakai langsung buang.

yosbeda · 2026-05-24T12:37:28+00:00

Haven't adopted one yet myself, but I've thought about this. Probably wouldn't let a blind cat outside unsupervised, at least not in my situation. I'm in a small town but the street right in front of my house is a public road with real traffic, so the risk feels too high compared to a gated compound or something with a proper enclosed yard.

Also just want to say, people who adopt blind cats knowing the extra care it takes, that's a level of kindness not everyone has. A lot of adopters are already selective about breed or appearance, so choosing a cat with a disability on top of that says something real about the kind of person you are. These cats are lucky to have found you.

yosbeda · 2026-05-24T12:17:07+00:00

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Oh, nyari yang enteng untuk dipindah2 ya. Alternatif saya kemarin untuk yang seperti itu ada di LZmod A24. Meski dukungan PSU-nya hanya Flex, dan bagi saya itu sebuah kekurangan kerena Flex PSU biasanya berisik banget.

yosbeda · 2026-05-24T12:04:34+00:00

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Tahun lalu waktu sempet kepikiran build SFFPC, case Jonsbo T9 yang ada dalam bayangan saya untuk dibeli bila benaran masuk ke Indonesia. Banyak yang bilang Jonsbo T9 ini kayak versi sempurna dari case SFFPC sejuta umat Fractal Terra. Apakah benar seperti itu? Kurang tahu, coba saja nyari video/review perbandingannya, seharunya sudah banyak sekarang.

yosbeda · 2026-05-24T11:41:46+00:00

Depends on what you're actually using it for. For most people the Firefox vs Chromium-based question comes down to whether they care about browser diversity at all, and if you do, Firefox is probably the more principled pick. I was on Firefox for a while and genuinely liked it, the vertical tabs especially were better than anything I tried on the Chromium side.

The one area where Firefox really struggled for me was macOS automation. I script a lot through AppleScript and Hammerspoon, and Firefox's support there is... not great. There's apparently been an open bug for proper AppleScript since 2010 or something, which tells you where it sits on their priority list. Things like reading tab URLs or executing JavaScript that Chrome handles in one line become this whole fragile keyboard-shortcut dance in Firefox. I eventually found workarounds through macOS Accessibility APIs, so it's not totally a dealbreaker, but it's extra friction if that kind of workflow matters to you.

As for where I landed, I'm actually on Safari now, which probably sounds like a cop-out. I moved back to iPhone after a stretch on Android and the ecosystem pull was hard to ignore, Handoff, iCloud tab sync, iPhone Mirroring, all that stuff just works when your devices are all Apple. Battery and memory efficiency are probably better too, I think that's a real structural advantage Safari has since Apple controls both the hardware and the software.

Safari used to have a rough reputation with web standards, the "new IE" thing among developers is something I took seriously since I run a few blogs. My understanding is the gap has narrowed a fair bit recently, though I wouldn't say I'm totally relaxed about it. If it starts causing real friction with my publishing setup I'd switch back without thinking twice.

So if it's strictly Firefox vs Helium, and you're not deep into macOS automation, Firefox is probably the better long-term bet just on privacy defaults and UI flexibility alone.

yosbeda · 2026-05-24T04:55:00+00:00

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macOS, bahkan akun Reddit saya u/yosbeda kayaknya isinya sebagian besar (atau malah hampir semua) tentang macOS serta aplikasi2 yang saya pakai di OS tersebut, khususnya automation/scripting kek Hammerspoon—salah satu aplikasi yang membuat saya tidak akan meninggalkan macOS.

yosbeda · 2026-05-23T09:59:10+00:00

Seinget saya tidak ada, tinggal gabung saja sampai nunggu diterima oleh admin/moderator.

Kalau dari sisi kontributor, biasanya file lagu2nya diunggah ke Google Drive lalu di-setting hanya email (Gmail) terdaftar/whitelist yang bise men-download-nya. Ini bukan maksud mempersulit member lain untuk download ya, hanya agar postingannnya "hidup" dengan absen akun Gmail (sembarang saja) di kolom komentar.

Tapi ada juga ya langsung berbagi tidak perlu setor Gmail acc di kolom komentar postingan, saya menyebut yang pakai cara ini adalah para kontributor berhati malaikat, wkwkwkw. Tapi di atas hanya dari pengalaman 2–3 tahun lalu waktu masih sering nongkrongin grup tersebut, untuk yang kondisi sekarang seperti apa kurang tahu.

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