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2026-03-31 09:41:39 GMT

I recently learned that #Sarawak freaking leads the way for green/renewable energy in Malaysia, if not also the region (Indonesia and Singapore, for example both imports green energy from Sarawak) - today I discovered that their state government even has a (first come, first serve limited) subsidy for solar panel/system installations at home with max of 12k MYR. So for a typical ~20k MYR setup, you only need to pay the remaining 8k MYR with the subsidy.
Istg Sarawak seems to be the only state in Malaysia with great, progressive state policies and initiatives (that people could **actually** feel and see). Is it too late to be reborn as a Sarawakian?
🔗 https://xcancel.com/datukhensem/status/2038763893896753185

2026-03-13 07:18:22 GMT

How this dumb bitch is even a professor, and presumably still teaching in our public university - is beyond me.
> Prof Solehah trolled for staking lineage claim of famed Iban warrior as “being of Malay origin”
🔗 https://archive.ph/4rLmk

2026-02-24 12:46:08 GMT

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Rotiboy here are notoriously _smart_ on where to place their outlets in order to get that strong aroma into as many noses as possible. There's another (smaller) chain here called Roti Roti that sells the same thing but imo is better (than Rotiboy), but regardless where they're from - those Coffee buns are really to die for 🤤

2026-02-24 12:23:54 GMT

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I thought that Roti'O branding looks so similar to Malaysia's Rotiboy, then after looking it up, discovered that the company behind the former used to be a franchisee of the latter in Indonesia, before later parting ways and decided to create their own brand/chain, Roti'O. Kinda like Chatime (Taiwanese) and Tealive in Malaysia I guess. (Happy iftar!)

2026-01-30 08:52:21 GMT

Penat gua tryna find out how I shd pay tax to LHDN (monthly) lol. I think, either I find the time to get a day off to go to LHDN (which idk if even possible cos my sched's packed n I'm still on probation), or I just say fuck it and pay my taxes in lump sum during e-Filing season next year - which from what people are saying over on Reddit or wtv is possible. I think this is how self-employed people pay taxes too (and 'influencers', as per recent addition lol).

2026-01-17 04:48:57 GMT

Babi la (pun intended), there's Pork Gepuk now. Someone pls eat it for me and tell me how good it is xD
▶️ https://xcancel.com/malaymail/status/2011782126694207894

2026-01-03 08:55:07 GMT

Boycott #namecheap, lol. If not for siding with genocide or wtv, boycott them for sheer incompetence.
🔗 https://xcancel.com/receipts_lol/status/2007226854357488094
🔗 https://xcancel.com/receipts_lol/status/2007118375559008489

2025-10-28 02:15:39 GMT

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are these Alpine as a VM, or Alpine as an LXC container on Proxmox? It'd be pretty interesting to have a video/read on how this is set up!

2025-10-14 08:09:29 GMT

Wth. TIL 'Watermelon' has a different name in Malay other than 'Tembikai' - 'Semangka'. _Tembikai_ apparently borrows from Tamil, meanwhile _Semangka_, used in Johor, Sarawak, and Singapore, borrows from Jawa/Javanese. Apparently, Malaysians in the east coast also calls Watermelons as 'Timun Cina' (Chinese Cucumber).
I only made this discovery (of the word _Semangka_) only bcos of an ice pop packaging my wife showed me - which uses 'Semangka' as the Malay translation to Watermelon. Never heard of it, ever in my life otherwise :blobfoxangrylaugh:
🔗 https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tembikai

2025-10-12 06:10:51 GMT

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yess I’ll def create a backup before doing anything.
I don’t think Vanilla supports any mods, right, but I assume if you meant if they were ‘disruptive’ mods that adds new objects n stuffs like that.
If that’s what you meant then I think they are ‘Vanilla compatible’, since they’re mostly QoL stuffs like new animations, new particles (i.e. nicer looking rain), better debug menu, Sodium for performance, etc.

2025-10-12 04:44:45 GMT

I might migrate my #Minecraft server from #NeoForge to #Fabric... NeoForge seems to be great, but a lot of the cool 'replay' mods tend to be Fabric only, and it seems like all of my mods I use are available on Fabric too.
Idk if the migration would be as simple as switching the server type (of the #Docker container) to Fabric (+ replacing any mods) and I'm gtg or maybe I should switch to Vanilla first. Also, is there anything else I need to know about Fabric? I've only ever used #Forge/NeoForge.

2025-10-10 06:01:14 GMT

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Well, #Framework CEO has _clarified_ that his 'political stance' is that he's pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ, unlike #DHH, and while I believe him - I still think it means fucking nothing, when he's still not only endorsing but even contributing to that fascist's #Linux distro, #Omarchy.
'Keeping politics out' from a business or #FOSS may sound, 'sound', and _productive_ in making your project/product accessible to all regardless of beliefs - but that clearly does not fucking work when your belief is radical and harmful in any way, and that includes DHH's shitty 'idealism' of keeping the part of the world _infested_ with bland foods, White.
🔗 https://xcancel.com/cmonkey/status/1976493945627766909
🔗 https://archive.ph/huG9s

2025-10-09 09:01:29 GMT

Ugh, we finally got the answer as to just how much #Framework (CEO) is aware about the political stance of the creator of the shitty, pretend #Linux distro #Omarchy, and what they think of it - that is, nothing. They're aware, they 'supposedly' don't endorse, but they don't care. What a great moral principle and business strat.
If this 'revelation' gets any louder, we may even see how Linus from #LTT/#LMG reacts to it, seeing that he's a shareholder at Framework. There's a chance he might 'out himself' too, depending on what he thinks of this.
#note1qzn…avxw

2025-09-26 01:04:57 GMT

Common Charles Dance W:
> British actor Charles Dance has said, "Even if [the Gaza war] stopped tomorrow, there would not be peace in the Middle East until the Balfour Declaration is unpicked.”
> Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the Game of Thrones and The Imitation Game actor claimed that Britain had “f***ed up” the region by issuing the declaration in 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland (at the EXPENSE of an existing Palestinian people's homeland)
🔗 https://xcancel.com/tajimustafa/status/1970933188340908426
🔗 https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-867618

2025-08-28 07:23:59 GMT

#Dolphin used to be my fav #KDE app, hands down, and meh it prolly still is.. but they do love _jumpscaring_ with pretty big/_unnecessary_ changes these days with every update.. this time with wtv this.. huge, distracting 'hit target' highlighting or wtv that appears from the get-go, and does not even disappear by clicking away from files/folders to switch focus 🤨 It's ugly, yes, but more annoyingly distracting. Idk why this keeps happening.
https://media.sakurajima.social/uploads/658a4fb9-01c4-47b7-8ec9-80dd811be2f1.webp

2025-08-10 11:23:02 GMT

#Homelab/#Networking question: I just realise that 'setting a static #IPv6 address' on a (#Linux) server is not as simple as it'd be with #IPv4 - one of the reasons being, realising, that the address prefix changes when my router restarts (i.e. due to any configuration changes).
When that network address prefix changes, obviously, any 'static' IPv6 address I'd like to set for my server would just be rendered _invalid_, since the network address portion/prefix is no longer applicable.
On my #TP-Link router, under IPv6 LAN settings, I saw an option to configure the `Address Prefix` - however, this field is currently prefilled with the network address prefix my servers/client devices are currently using/assigned to, and it is immutable (not configurable). To make it configurable, I could set a different setting on the same page called `Prefix Delegation` to `Disable` instead of its default, `Enable`.
My idea is to disable it, set an address prefix, and save/apply it - my expectation is, after the router restarts, all IPv6 addresses on my network will have that prefix, and it'll never change unless I explicitly do so (again, on the router). Is my idea right? or am I getting it tooootally wrong (which is possible bcos IPv6 is something else)?

2025-05-22 04:22:19 GMT

I've managed to get #OpenMediaVault working on my #RaspberryPi (running #Raspbian Lite) and the performance seems pretty impressive! Despite relying on USB storage for the SSDs.
This is my first time running a #NAS on the Pi, on #OMV, not using #ZFS or #RAID but rather an #Unraid like solution, 'cept, #FOSS called #SnapRAID in combination with #mergerfs (the drives themselves are simply #EXT4).
So far, honestly, so good. I got 2x 1TB SSDs for data, and another 1TB SSD for parity. Don't have a backup for the data themselves atm, but I do have a scheduled backup solution (#RaspiBackup) setup for the OS itself (SD card). It's also got #Timeshift for creating daily snapshots.
I'm not _out of the woods_ yet though, cos after this comes the (somewhat) scary part, deploying #Immich on the Pi lol. I really could just deploy it in my #Proxmox #homelab, and I wouldn't have to worry about system resources or hardware transcoding, etc. but I really wanna experiment this 'everything hosted/contained in 1 Pi' _concept_.

2025-05-22 01:07:24 GMT

Is hosting #Immich on #RaspberryPi doable, seeing the lack of hardware transcoding - I know hardware acceleration might matter on something like #Jellyfin, but what about Immich?

2025-05-13 11:55:26 GMT

Is there any app or command-line tool on #Linux that could help organise and clean up a ton of photos/videos?
Maybe something that could recognise duplicates (bonus if not simply relying on checksums like I'm currently doing on my own) and sort them into folders based on dates so they don't get too huge to load all at once.

2025-04-18 18:11:57 GMT

PSA: Please avoid upgrading (and perhaps even installing) any flavours of #Ubuntu 25.04 for now, as it seems to be facing a pretty serious bug that might cause a broken desktop (at least).
#note1azs…j953

2025-04-03 01:49:49 GMT

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checking again earlier, it just so happens that all of them were mkv with embedded subs. One thing I'm noticing also is that all these files are transcoding instead of direct play (even though on my Plex server, when watching the same media on the Android app and the same phone for instance, would've direct played instead of transcode) - when I use the media player client on macOS however, they are direct playing as expected and it doesn't seem that subtitle desync issue is present.
If you don't mind answering these questions:
1. Is the "criteria" to avoiding the need to transcode different between Plex/Jellyfin? Jellyfin seems to transcode my media better than my Plex server, but on my Plex server I almost never need transcoding on any devices of mine so I've disabled it completely since idt my server is "built" for transcoding.
2. I assume, the web UI/player will always require transcoding and cannot direct play? Are the Android and iOS app facing the same "limitation" perhaps bcos they're not actual "apps" but rather, they're a wrapper of the same web UI?
3. On Plex, there's a setting where I can just completely disable transcoding so that it simply errors out if a media cannot be played directly by a device - seeing that transcoding on Jellyfin causes these subtitle desync issues, is there a way for me to do the same?

2025-04-02 15:06:37 GMT

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so far I've only tested from the web UI (Firefox on macOS), and the Jellyfin app on Android. I've tested multiple media files of mine, so I'm not particularly sure what subtitle formats they were (external, embedded, srt, etc.)

2025-04-02 13:16:13 GMT

Oh lol, it's one of those things where people say "so and so" is amazing!!! Works perfectly for me so it must for you... then you realise immediately after giving it a whirl that something as basic as subtitle support on your media, regardless if transcoding or direct play (why that'd even matter, honestly?) is broken on #Jellyfin.
I'm eager to switch to Jellyfin bcos I always knew it was the platform to be on, not #Plex (since #FOSS and all), but I am perplexed how Jellyfin is supposedly not able to deliver on this seemingly very basic feature for a video streaming platform - support playing subtitles (properly) with your videos 🙃
🔗 https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-subtitles-out-of-sync
#note1uct…wsus

2025-04-02 06:17:42 GMT

I'm testing out #Jellyfin as a possible alternative to #Plex in my #homelab, so far so good, but I'm kinda puzzled why the subs on my media seem kinda "broken"? As in, they're all perfectly fine when played from my Plex server, but when playing them on Jellyfin (through the Web UI), they're not at all synced to the actual video/audio. What's up with that?
Edit: I think, it ends up getting "screwed" and desync-ed **possibly** only when you start scrubbing or moving forward/backwards in the video, or it'd be fine otherwise?

2025-03-31 04:19:14 GMT

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Slamat Hari Raya to u!!

2025-03-26 13:22:45 GMT

I just know a lot of the (Malaysian) Malays' fast this year, _hangry_ and racists alike, are broken/invalid, repeatedly. These people love _preaching_ and pretending to be pious when everything they do is, and shows, anything **but**.
My only _husnudzon_ for these folks is that they are smokers like me (and a lot of Malays) going through the absolute worst of withdrawals each day 'cept they're sl/sn-apping at people when they're _hangry_ and be racist online as _entertainment_ to pass the time, while I shut myself tf up during the day and watch Khairul Aming cooking videos in the evening to pass the time.
Ramadan (fasting) is all about straining yourself from any sort of _relief_ (i.e. no eating/drinking, nothing sexual, no physical/verbal temper, no sulking, not even picking your nose lol), nurturing patience and self-control, and putting yourself in the shoes of the needy - yet these people, this year worst than ever, are _willy nilly_ breaking their fasts (as long they don't eat or drink, all is _good_ right?) and having lavish buffets for Iftar like there's no tomorrow, cos sure that's what poor people eat at the end of the day too :))
Again, insane how someone as _non religious_ as me can be more knowledgeable of this than these supposedly religious lot - but then again, it's also not surprising seeing how Islam literally teaches you to be "in the middle" (i.e. balanced between spiritual and worldly matters), and yet these bunch clearly have no regards to this whatsoever, _riding_ on the name of "Islam", and think they're "in the right". My sole "satisfaction" in this is knowing that these fucks are starving for over ~13 hours each day for no gain whatsoever.

2025-03-24 12:51:42 GMT

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funnily enough in my area, not a SINGLE mercun sound to be heard thruout Ramadan so far. Previously, awal Ramadan ady sure got mercun just outside of my local surau during Terawihs - triggering car alarms and whatnot. My guess is kids don't find it enticing no more now that it's legal (unlikely), or they've moved towards playing Mobile Legends and PUBG mobile @ Mamaks and local Warungs instead (likely).

2025-03-24 10:52:36 GMT

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ur hometown's in kedah?? all I know abt my wife's hometown, for now, is that it's in Sg Petani - that's it xD

2025-03-24 08:21:07 GMT

The fasting month this year really flew by so quickly, which is _good_ I suppose, cos I never particularly liked Ramadan - not for the challenge of fasting and everything that comes with (i.e. no smoking, eating/drinking, or _relief_ of any kind including even cursing, etc. which is a lot harder than you think when you're constantly _hangry_ and sleep deprived) but rather.. how _disruptive_ it is to daily routine, and I'm, for wtv reason, a **very** routine (reliant) person. Even a tiny change to my routine (i.e. say... someone taking up my regular spot in my shoe cabinet) can throw me off balance mentally for the entire day.
That being said, it's not that I'm looking forward to the end of Ramadan either cos then comes Raya, something I hate 2x more lol for the _ridiculous_ clothing you're expected to wear in our insanely hot and humid weather (the thinnest tee and the shortest shorts are my regular uniform), and also the amount of socialising that comes with _festive_ seasons like it. I've always been relatively distant with my family compared to anyone else (in the family), so that only goes ten-folds when you factor in cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. whom I could never even remember their names, or pretend to care/grief when they pass.
This year's Raya will be particularly _interesting_ tho cos it'll be my first real experience going back to a _Kampung_... my wife's. I've only ever spent Rayas in KL, even hanging out w friends at Mamak (from the 1st day of Raya, even) just to skip through Raya as quickly as possible, but this time, I'm going to my wife's hometown in Kedah. Dk what to expect, I only know that there will be a lot of Malays around me (which always gives me anxiety for some reason), I may or may not understand what they'll be saying (depending on how strong their Northern accents will be), I'm also told that Kampung (or Kedah in particular) wouldn't be this "pretty" countryside image I have of anywhere not-KL(ang Valley), and that no, countrysides aren't cooler in temperature than KL, in fact in this case, hotter... SOMEHOW.
I'm a little stressed, ngl, but I'll def do my best to enjoy it as much as my wife will :blobfoxbonk: It's just, straight up _karma_ how I've never been _envious_ of those that have a Kampung to go back to during festive seasons (Raya, CNY, etc.) and then, out of nowhere, I've been _gifted_ one ~6-8 hours away up North :neofox_boop_woozy:

2025-03-24 02:01:47 GMT

A government minister _celebrating_ Malaysia being listed in some sort of "Top 10 Retirement Destinations" list like it's a goddamn achievement shows just how fucking tone deaf these lot are 🤡
🔗 https://xcancel.com/NgaKorMing/status/1903597501879636251

2025-03-15 13:46:24 GMT

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speaking of tummy aches, nothing can beat the official government statement, complete with the federal coat of arms logo and all, issuing what is essentially a short message to the entire nation that the (now former) PM is (at the moment) suffering from diarrhea.
I still cannot brain how he thought that was anywhere close to a good idea for his image lmao, cos surely he must've had to approve it if not he himself called for it to be done.
🔗 https://safereddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/oao9x2/the_pm_has_diarrhea_since_yesterday_and_has_been

2025-03-15 08:42:59 GMT

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oh god it's a SEA thing I guess cos it's no diff in Malaysia, it's ridiculous 😭

2025-03-15 05:38:23 GMT

When it comes to self-hosting a #fediverse instance, perhaps even a small one (~1-10 people), is #GoToSocial the best bet? If it's lightweight compared to the rest, it supports post edits, longer char limits than #Mastodon, and supports Mastodon API well so it can be used in Mastodon apps then I'm sold - question is, is it?
+1 if there's official deployment strategy for #Kubernetes or at least #Docker
+1 if it supports quote posts too

2025-03-07 03:11:08 GMT

It's hilarious that in Malaysia, back in the day, it's common to see "white beauty" marketing selling and advertising products as "skin-whitening" and so on - these are still sold ofc, but I've not seen them being marketed as such anymore, not "officially" or as "in your face" anyway for a long time now.
Recently tho, I've already seen a few instances of expats (Eastern Asians) living in Malaysia who've started promoting/doing ads for these products with the backwards marketing talk of "dark skin = bad", "fair skin = good". They don't even try to hide it with _fluff_ like "this makes your skin glow" and go straight to "this shit makes your skin white and beautiful" or "fuckkk my skin got dark in Malaysian heat, what do I do" lmao.
Homogeneous culture tings I suppose, being insensitive to this.

2025-02-28 12:56:23 GMT

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hahah just joshing w u la

2025-02-28 12:32:58 GMT

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i drive in silent mode these days cos my AUX port broke so I couldn't connect my phone to it to listen to spotify. I could switch on the radio but that feels _sinful_ to do, living in the 2020s :blobfoxangrylaugh:

2025-02-28 12:12:12 GMT

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damn radio still exists HAHA

2025-02-28 12:11:03 GMT

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announced ke i missed it

2025-02-28 08:23:35 GMT

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I hope so too lmao so I'd have one extra day of getting my errands done without getting dehydrated in the heat

2025-02-28 06:55:45 GMT

Idek if we're fasting tomorrow (so Terawih tonite), or fasting Sunday (and Terawih on Sat). _Ustaz_ Google says Sat, and normally I think in the past Google has been quite accurate?? but others say _Ustaz_ Chinese/Horse calendar has always been accurate, and that calendar says Sunday. I guess we'll see tonite la.

2025-02-28 06:49:04 GMT

#Linux takes the (incredibly important) win against #Windows and #macOS when it comes to the most sensible solution and consistent implementation on setting/representing the dates of (extremely old) files... lol.
▶️ https://youtu.be/T2VNb2cqpHs

2025-02-27 02:13:55 GMT

#PewDiePie switching to #Linux (from what I can tell, #LinuxMint) was **NOT** on my bingo card this year but that's actually so freaking cool lol.
He didn't actually even mention this in the video (thank god, that'll keep most of the nerds away), but he did mention in one of the comments that it's amazing how you could game on Linux, and that he literally has no use for #Windows anymore.
Prolly the biggest exposure for Linux yet since the last #LTT challenge (which was... something).
▶️ https://youtu.be/tsu0Rw3Nqi8
https://media.sakurajima.social/uploads/c2732732-bed4-413a-8215-96c1c0b0c013.webp

2025-02-21 06:23:45 GMT

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idt I'm sensitive to honey or pollen, but I haven't really used or applied any products specifically for my eczema in a long time. Last I'd seen a doctor for my eczema was during high school, when it was at its worst where I couldn't even use any bath soap other than Cetaphil - it's gone better since then, but ya my skin's still incredibly sensitive to heat and dryness, which gives me an almost electric shock kind of sensations everywhere and makes my skin peel.
Sounds like a good idea tho, do u have any you'd recommend that I could find?

2025-02-21 05:51:28 GMT

It's been a torturous week for my eczema, so hot and so dry. My entire face is literally moulting.

2025-02-21 02:37:32 GMT

Growing up, speaking Malay only with my family, and English with everyone else meant that time and time again, I discover words I often heard from my (Indonesian) mother that I thought was Malay but turned out to be Indonesian - words like _pipis_ and _ngompol_.
The way I'd discover this is when I use them with my wife, and she has nooo idea what I meant and confused at me why I'd thought she'd understand 😂 There are some other words tho that I knew were Indonesian from the get-go cos they clearly sounded _foreign_, like _budeg_. There are also some words that I thought were Indonesian, and they are, but happen to also be Malay too, like _kualat_.
I'm really outing myself as a _menace_ of a kid with the words that were thrown at me growing up :neofox_boop_woozy:

2025-02-15 03:06:05 GMT

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bruh, I've always thought it was something made up by Malaysians and not as praise lol - it makes sense now why I see Indonesians themselves use the term 😂

2025-02-14 08:34:25 GMT

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sokay it seems to be very intuitive in my brain on how to handle the steering wheel (and driving in general) in such hot conditions until the AC kicks in lmao.
U mentioning gloves made me wonder if my fellow hand sock aunties are still wearing hand socks while driving in this heat

2025-02-14 08:32:29 GMT

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this mamak no screen wkwk

2025-02-14 07:48:30 GMT

People living in temperate countries likely could not relate to this but the temperature is so hot today (~34c, feels like 40c) that I had to drive and man my piping hot steering wheel using _The Force_.
People acquire _The Force_ out of necessity around here without the need to disciple under a green, reverse-speaking version of Dobby.

2025-02-14 07:11:28 GMT

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also, I don't get this kind of _euphoria_ anymore with Python cos I'm already so good at it (_ceh_) so thanks Javascript!

2025-02-14 07:09:41 GMT

I'm at Mamak and just fixed a really annoying bug in my code - my dopamine is so high rn I'm desperately holding myself from laughing, screaming my ass off from my seat. Still holding........

2025-02-14 03:29:32 GMT

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ok good2 I'll put my _cancel gun_ away lmaoo. Show us ur PC setup someday!!

2025-02-14 03:25:20 GMT

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ok so ure not like some kind of person who regularly games on PC via Epic Games... are u 🔫
(I'll give a pass to Infinity Nikki or even Genshin Impact and the like since there's no alternative anyway)

2025-02-14 03:14:05 GMT

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OMG BIG!!! I already have it on my Steam Deck, just installed from Epic Games, but this will make it so much easier for sure.
Also... "I'm not on Steam"??? eventho u game on PC too???

2025-02-14 02:31:23 GMT

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oh shit but then again, maybe yes let's promote Village Park so our personal favs can remain a hidden secret lmao.
DEVASTATED thinking about how my absolute favourite Nasi Kerabu place is seemingly forever off my list bcos they've gone viral a few months ago - and till now their queue spans across 3 other neighbouring stores, all the time. My wife went there on a weekday recently and the queue took almost an hour, and our usual _akak_ there said the queue is even worse on weekends (when we'd normally want a Nasi Kerabu brunch).
so yea, RIP to that shop - I'll prolly never set foot there again until someday maybe hopefully people forgot about it lol.

2025-02-14 01:57:51 GMT

I can't help but judge people who think Village Park Nasi Lemak is anything but basic Nasi Lemak you'd find from any other roadside stalls or even overpriced Kopitiam. It's decent... but it's no different than the others I've mentioned lol. I say it's no more than an okay intro to Nasi Lemak for _Mat Sallehs_, that's it.
Speaking of _Mat Sallehs_ and Nasi Lemak, I'm reminded by how in an interview or a vlog type of video (I can't recall) of a _Mat Salleh_ tourist visiting KL saying that their favourite Malaysian dish was Nasi Lemak, and that they ate it everyday - but when asked about where they had this dish, they said McD. God bless these poor souls.
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Context: Just my seasonal realisation and frustration that I have friends who swears by Village Park when it comes to Nasi Lemak. It feels like a lifelong mission of mine to _convert_ these people to the _right path_.

2025-02-11 13:54:52 GMT

I'm kinda puzzled with why when I try to run #virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager), from the application launcher or something like #KDE's #Krunner, it'll fail with this error:
```
Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer virt-manager[244999]: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libvirt'
Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer systemd[1046]: app-virt\[email protected]: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer systemd[1046]: app-virt\[email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
```
but if I launch `virt-manager` from the terminal, it'll launch just fine. It's worked all the while before, till this issue started happening a while ago and I just haven't bothered to debug it or attempt to fix it. Any idea?

2025-02-11 08:17:29 GMT

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damnnn dats very new haha can become streamer ady

2025-02-11 06:27:35 GMT

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yas - so ure just recording on the same machine gaming? what gpu u using (soz for the interview just curious hahaha)

2025-02-11 06:05:34 GMT

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guna apa

2025-02-08 10:17:11 GMT

Sometimes I wish Malaysia allows gun ownership whenever I see arguments happening on social media with one side accusing the other side of propagating baseless information/conspiracies without valid proof or trustworthy data to back it up, and the other side returns with Grok or ChatGPT screenshots as “proof”. How I miss the days when “baseless proof/data” used to be Wikipedia rather than “facts” spewed by some hallucinating metal junk.

2025-02-07 11:16:02 GMT

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Flickr was never my generation/demographic thing I don't think xD idk anyone who uses it besides you now that u mentioned it

2025-02-07 11:13:40 GMT

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hahahaha I'm not, I don't even have TikTok or IG so it'd be kind of _buang tebiat_ if I suddenly have XHS xD

2025-02-07 11:09:43 GMT

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true, that was also the case for the longest time for Pixelfed - tho for Verni's Pixelfed app at least they did it bcos they wrote a native app for iOS so to create an Android app, they'd have to maintain a completely separate code base that is preferably native to Android as well.
For Pixelfed, it was already written in non-native code already that supports multiplatform but for some reason Android got the app a lot later than iOS lol. Anyway, Vernissage is still very early in their development and don't even have any mobile apps yet, tho I hope when they do, they'd support both from the get-go.

2025-02-07 11:04:54 GMT

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do u mean Verni? Vernissage used to be the name of a 3rd party Pixelfed app on iOS that's super good and polished in comparison to the official app. Due to certain shortcomings of the Pixelfed project, they decided to rebrand their Pixelfed app as "Impressia", and use the Vernissage name for a brand new Fediverse project that is still very early and private (but open source).
If their Pixelfed app was so good, I don't see why their own project couldn't be better and have their mobile app available on both platforms eventually.
🔗 https://vernissage.photos

2025-02-07 10:58:13 GMT

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I've hopes for @npub1lf5…xewk - I hope that their service will be public soon and their mobile app to be as good as their Pixelfed app, and for it to be avai on both iOS and Android this time. I honestly dk how people use Pixelfed on Android (esp before Pixelix's existence).

2025-02-07 10:52:18 GMT

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good luck la with their shitty app lolol (AGAIN I wouldn't be so critical of it if he was undeserving of it, I'm a Yin-Yang type of guy just trying to balance things out 😡)

2025-02-07 10:43:15 GMT

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HAHAHA but this guy's is particularly unique and worse. The common founder's disease I've been seeing is this behaviour of not wanting to send traffic to other instances when that's the whole fuckin' point of a federated service, but this guy also loves gaslighting and stroking his ego lol - never seen that behaviour from John Mastodon, Tanaka Misskey, or Jack Calckey @ Firefish.

2025-02-07 10:05:05 GMT

Bruh 💀 This is just a mild example, but I like how the common _defense_ of those blindly supporting this man whenever I try and highlight the faults of this project or rather its lead, in the nicest way possible without trying to be mean towards them, is that I should not share my opinion (of #Pixelfed) in a negative, critical light esp when compared to other Fedi projects/clients I wanted to bring eyes to, deservingly.
Little do they know, I only do so as a _tit for tat_ bcos this is just what the dude loves doing, and he needs to know how stupid it is. This is just my way of _standing up_ for those that this guy loves belittling, even harassing, on not only his personal account but also on his project's official account (it's the only reason why I'm seeing them, I unfollowed the dude a long time ago).
For those that are just somehow not as _perceptive_ as I am to this kind of bullshittery, TLDR; this guy loves to "play nice", and then be the meanest jerk you'll see on this platform. He'd go on a week-long manic episode calling a fellow developer of a 3rd party client supporting his fucking platform, a "weirdo" and cursing him, make up bullshit reasons why people (whom are not oblivious to his bullshit) are standing up against him that are completely unrelated/baseless just to confuse/gaslight people, and then "apologise" and "play nice" to garner support with bullshit like "Pixelfed loves 3rd party developers! We'll do _so and so_ to prove that" literally just within hours of going batshit crazy sending hate to these innocent individuals (who are too nice for their own good, mind you).
Those following this dude would know he loves _sucking up_ to Mastodon and its lead (John Mastodon, ofc lol) since forever. Even when people were highlighting how Mastodon, or rather its "home" instance (mastodon.social) was (politically) problematic, I remember this guy coming to Mastodon's rescue in the most dick-stroking fashion you'd almost think we're on LinkedIn. Yet somehow now, maybe cause his project's gaining traction, he's tryna be "big brother" to Mastodon or something? I really dk the workings of this guy's brain.
Bonus point: This dude also has the biggest fucking ego I've seen on here - he's also very hypocritical/manipulative about it, which is just the worst absolute combo I simply could not stand. I appreciate confidence, self-confidence is positive, but a big ego where you love propping up yourself while **unnecessarily** putting down others (within Fedi or heck even Big Tech) **repeatedly** - all this, while deceivingly making it like it wasn't your intention to stroke yourself while beating up others, is fuckin' insufferable. I have no idea how this behaviour isn't more obvious to others.
https://media.sakurajima.social/uploads/9a6a753f-fed6-40e9-9957-991403fb5901.webp

2025-02-07 07:14:27 GMT

Najib's wet dream
#note13hs…lzte

2025-02-04 09:48:24 GMT

#FediHire 🥳
I'm a #Programmer/#SoftwareEngineer. I'm most fluent in #Python, have some basics in #Java and #C++, but I'm also taking up new languages like #Javascript and others in my eternal journey of getting better and minimising the _impostor syndrome_ that befalls pretty much all programmers (I feel). I'm also very experienced in #CloudNative/#DevOps technologies, and have been the one devising solutions and maintaining infrastructure in a fast-paced startup environment in my previous employment.
I'm passionate in what I do and those that know me here or IRL would know that I'm always _yapping_ about the things I'm learning or working on - I love discussing them, and I love helping people out - esp those on the same boat as me.
This passion has led me into writing and maintaining tons of #FOSS projects like [Mango](https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/mango): a content distribution framework based on #Django for #Mastodon and #Bluesky that powers various bots of mine like @npub1aqa…59hx and @npub1590…xq3q, [Charts](https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/charts): a #Helm chart repository for an easy and reproducible deployment strategy for all my projects and everything else I self-host on my #homelab, and [Orked](https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/orked): O-tomated #RKE2 distribution, a collection of scripts I wrote that are comprehensively documented to enable everyone to self-host a production-grade #Kubernetes cluster for absolutely free in their homes.
I'm based in Malaysia, but I'm open to just about any on-site, hybrid, or remote job opportunities anywhere. In the meantime though, I'm actively looking for a job in countries like #Japan and #Singapore, in a bid for a _desperate_ lifestyle change. I've linked below my [Portfolio](https://gitlab.com/irfanhakim/portfolio) (which you too, could self-host your own!), for those who'd wish to connect/learn more of me. Thank you ❤️
🔗 https://l.irfanhak.im/resume

2025-01-29 18:15:29 GMT

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my friends when were in school all also showered for sure, cos everyone's hair was always wet during assembly lol.
college oni got some super _liat_ to shower, but that I think applies to college students in general haha. My best man tho, a Chinese, didn't even shower on my wedding day - but people always say he's more Malay (from Shah Alam) than me and I'm more Chinese (from Kepong) than him, so xD

2025-01-29 17:29:40 GMT

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ya like honestly, idm if they don't shower or stink or wtv - but I do expect for whomever this applies to either.. shush and keep that fact private to themselves, or own up to it and wear it with pride instead of creating excuses or putting the blame on others lol, which is a very 5 year old behaviour.

2025-01-29 17:15:17 GMT

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ya not even joking how aggressive and heated the defenses get lmao - all racial/religious stereotypes all come out, yikes. Worst of all, but I guess expected, I found many of those "defending" themselves started (unpromptedly) pinning foreign workers under the bus as the main culprit of BO bcos of their "diet" lol. These people they're blaming aren't even in the conversation to defend themselves :blobfoxbonk:

2025-01-29 17:02:40 GMT

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I've been loving seeing the replies on these tweets lmao - the number of people aggressively defending and in the process, outing themselves as stinky is nuts

2025-01-27 11:18:50 GMT

It's kinda nuts that over a month later, my wife who's never had #migraine/#vertigo or any (frequent/serious) #health issues in general in the past, is still suffering from pretty bad vertigo attacks from time to time.
Since she was hospitalised for a nite, she's never gotten back to her "usual" healthy self just yet for a non-short period of time. We're kinda puzzled how this could even have started or what could have caused it cos, again, she's never had issues relating to headache attacks or what she describes as "her entire world spinning" before - in fact, she rarely gets sick (in the past), and yet now she almost forgot what it was like to be "normal" again.
We've been seeing an #ENT specialist for this and so far, idk how helpful it's been, honestly. The bills have been pretty expensive (since, private specialist hospital) but fortunately, we're insured so all of the charges were fully covered. Now, I'm just not sure what to do - one thing I could think of is switch to a different ENT specialist, considering I'm somewhat losing confidence with the current one, but at the same time I'm not sure if ENT is the right field for this in the first place (tho the current specialist attributed my wife's first vertigo _attack_ to an ear infection reaction, at the time).
All I know is I think it's insane that, assuming that what my wife is currently experiencing is vertigo - that specialist is not even giving her any vertigo medication except for 2 weeks post-hospitalisation. Since then, she's only gotten some _experimental_ migraine nasal spray from the dude rather than something like Betaserc, which my SIL (a GP) seems to think she should've gotten a lot more stock of rather than just 2 weeks. Speaking of said SIL, she even questioned some decisions made by the specialist i.e. not sending my wife for physio, which apparently is common practice at KKs (public clinics) for vertigo patients (in order to assist them _find balance_ again in their _spinning world_).
Dk la, all in all, I hope both of us would see the light of day where my wife can consider herself normal and _sprightly_ again so she can be as active as she was before this all started.
#note1f0l…u7wm

2025-01-19 07:45:00 GMT

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yea I'd imagine BigPay and Wise are interchangeable in this case - essentially what you'd want is just an account that can hold multiple currencies and convert them for you on the fly during your payment.
So I really didn't add any JPY to my Wise account pun, I just added MYR and it'll convert as necessary when I make payments. That way, when I went home any leftover MYR I can just use as usual in any shops without any conversion/transaction fee or anything like that.

2025-01-19 07:42:52 GMT

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yess these 2 saved my day. All of us in Malaysia have all been too _pampered_ with doing pretty much everything digitally, and I'm glad it was mostly doable there in Japan with these 2 xD
For a mostly cash-based country, I was fortunate I didn't even need to use cash that often as most places I went to did accept card payments (NFC), only needed cash for some smaller stalls or vending machines.
Have fun in Japan!!!

2025-01-19 07:36:40 GMT

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this def might not apply to whatever you're trying to do or ur trip, but during my time there, money-wise I only added MYR into my Wise account and make payments using NFC (with the digital Wise Card on Apple Pay) whenever I can, and cash withdrawn from 7E ATMs using my physical Wise card (all of which I mostly did late at night).
Tickets-wise, for anything including "special" trains (i.e. Shinkansen, "touristy" train rides, etc.) or attractions (i.e. theme parks, museums), I got by by simply booking them on Klook. Day-to-day train (i.e. JR trains) I just use an IC card like Suica digitally using Apple Wallet - which I also topup using Wise thru Apple Pay. Unless you have an iPhone or a bought-in-Japan Android phone, you will need a physical IC card tho.

2025-01-17 14:25:49 GMT

I can't even post or add an alt text to my photo on #Pixelfed - prolly bcos of how borked the _flagship_ instance is atm due to the attention it's getting. Saw people suggesting Pixelfed close registration on its instance or exclude pixelfed.social from the instance directory to route more traffic to other Pixelfed instances instead, which is the fundamental idea behind #Fediverse, but it doesn't seem like Pixelfed's heading that route. The only thing I saw from Pixelfed's announcement recently was only to upgrade its instance, rather than promote others on the app itself or the bare minimum, on their #Mastodon account.

2025-01-17 00:40:14 GMT

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ah shit yet another Damansara HAHAHA

2025-01-17 00:37:01 GMT

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can't wait for the new LRT line to connect us to there!

2025-01-14 12:59:38 GMT

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me la, that, in my circle cos almost everyone else ady migrate xD but others who've migrated keep saying how they'd _cry_ whenever they come back (implying how they're not entirely happy for moving) and make me second guess myself so I've decided to maybe just migrate _out of spite_ haha.
But it's all just talk for now, I've officially passed 1 year of my career break and surviving on my savings and haven't looked for a job yet cos I'm always distracted and afraid of rejection/being compared with other slaves like me.

2025-01-14 12:53:18 GMT

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hahahaha it's so funny how many outsiders are looking into coming here now while insiders are desperately trying to move out.

2025-01-14 11:05:07 GMT

My partner, watching reels: Damn this _mat salleh_ (white dude) literally traveled and reviewed these (many) South East Asian countries and left out Malaysia and Singapore
Me: He's got good taste :neofox_boop_woozy:

2024-12-31 08:34:19 GMT

It's insane that #TheForest is on sale for 90% off on #Steam. In Malaysia, the game's only 3.90 MYR which is an insane value for money for the kind of game it is.
👾 https://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/The_Forest

2024-12-28 14:00:17 GMT

Is there a GUI app on #Linux I could use to clone a disk (i.e. SD card) to image? I know there's `dd` but that isn't GUI. I normally use and prefer #KDE's Partition Manager which I could use to just copy over each partition from a disk to another, but copying the disk as an image would be far more portable - I know on #Windows people use Win32 Disk Imager, while on #macOS I think you could just use the built-in Disk Utility.
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Update: WAIT - I think you could actually do this on KDE Partition Manager! Just mount the disk, right click the partition, click **Backup**, set an output path, and apply.
There's also an option to **Restore** a partition on the app, which I assume is when you then supply the image you had just backed up. I'm testing this right now, but I'm hopeful!
Update 2: It worked perfectly. I backed up the partition as an image (not sure if you could do so for multiple partitions in one image), and restored it on another empty SD card.
I tested it on an #OnionOS install for my #MiyooMini. After the restoration was done, put in my new (target) SD card, and the device literally booted right into the game I had paused right at the time when I removed the (source) SD card. KDE Partition Manager ftw.
https://media.sakurajima.social/uploads/6764f622-76da-4215-baef-1e7b82155a6c.webp

2024-12-27 02:23:16 GMT

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Man, I feel horrible. Oh, added context: I'm not sick, my wife unfortunately has been for the past month or so, and was warded for a CT scan and some medication. If all is well, she should be discharged today.
Circling back to my misleading context: I feel horrible bcos my VPN does not work and I cannot remote into my local network from the hospital ffs xD My domains are all up and dandy, I'm sure there must be some stupid reason why the VPN isn't accessible despite the server itself being up lol.

2024-12-26 10:35:57 GMT

Spending post-Christmas warded at the hospital xD

2024-12-20 14:53:14 GMT

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ya i meant mobile gacha game like in a "traditional" sense - those that came before the likes of the Genshin Impacts, HSR, or the latest Nikki game haha. The kind that's all in Chinese and I have no idea wth is going on or how it's even played but defo no "open world" or moving ur characters around etc. haha maybe more akin to a card/strat game but gacha style xD
but ya, my partner's pretty much limited to games that are either 2D or those "2.5D" I suppose where the assets are technically 3D but your camera's static. She's getting better at playing games requiring camera movement, but still can only play pretty short sessions. Which is unfortunate bcos when I used to play a lot of Minecraft, she was happy to hop onto the server and play w me but just CANNOT cos it'd make her sick for a really, really long time.
I, generally ok, except if I'm particularly "vulnerable" (i.e. sick or tired) at the time. Also, playing, and watching someone playing is different for me - like I can play Minecraft but cannot watch people play Minecraft.

2024-12-20 10:16:27 GMT

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hahaha got la but not many xD n honestly wouldnt have known anyway cos most of em are the type to play them mobile, gacha games so no motion-related vertigo, maybe at _best_, gacha-related vertigo :blobfoxangrylaugh:

2024-12-20 09:15:49 GMT

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oh, no, I totally understand it happens (occurs w my partner too, unfortunately), just literally never seen them in one sentence HAHA. maybe just not my lingo, cos alternatively "motion sickness" instead of vertigo would've been more common to me. I've only heard of the vertigo term (more and more) very recently.
Update: I'm just surprised that it's perceived/studied as a "women" thing here? It happens to me too but not that bad/often, it's very conditional, but it is totally a big thing w my partner that blocks her from playing certain games.
I've always more perceived it as, she's never played a video game before, kinda thing. She only started playing games when we got tgt, so like, when she was 21 or something - so I thought she's just not used to the motor skills required for the spatial awareness or controlling the camera while also controlling your movements and actions, etc. in a game which just fucks up her brain.

2024-12-20 07:16:48 GMT

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never thought I'd see the words "fps" and "vertigo" together in one sentence

2024-12-17 01:43:04 GMT

I feel like I'm seeing more and more (#Linux) apps, who were already on #Wayland (or running on Wayland by default, if that makes a difference), being updated to run on #X11 using #Xwayland instead, recently. That seems concerning, as surely that means regression, but there must be a solid reason why if it's not just one app doing it.

2024-12-14 18:37:42 GMT

I'm not sure if entering a #Matrix room/space being a wee bit slow to load messages up and whatnot, would that mean my Matrix instance is slow (i.e. where my account is hosted), or the instance/host of said channel/room is slow? Is there a way to tell, cos I'd wanna know if I need to "move" my account elsewhere before giving Matrix an actual whirl.

2024-12-12 13:57:29 GMT

What #Matrix server can I join, or if it's feasible/not a bad idea to host your own (possibly as a container)?

2024-11-25 07:07:16 GMT

Years after #eSIM's existence - I still see no sense/advantage to having your primary sim as an eSIM. eSIM's just not as portable as having a physical SIM where you can just simply swap in/out during emergencies or wtv where you'd need to switch a phone. When you buy a new phone too, you don't need to head to your local telco to move your eSIM.
The main benefit I see to eSIM for now is for when you're traveling. You no longer need to buy a physical sim and swap them out for when you're overseas or when you're back, you can just buy and self-register an eSIM (or multiple) on your own and delete them for when they're no longer needed.

2024-11-22 03:56:04 GMT

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The result is I get to see this woman twice, when I don't even want to see her once.
https://media.sakurajima.social/uploads/92211dc7-a9a4-48b2-9af5-87543c395a22.webp

2024-11-22 03:52:24 GMT

wah pening kepala when a piece of code ran what it was supposed to supposedly fine (in an exception handling block) and yet it returned an exception... but the logged exception (in the log string) is just nothing, not even `None`.
WHAT

2024-11-21 14:09:52 GMT

MySejahtera who?
#note134w…2hzn