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I haven't found a good review on youtube specially for the Indonesian market (because some of them can be more expensive or just not available) and one that is up to date so I did my own research. I fancy a non-display drawing tablet preferably with programmable buttons and it has to be matte, I only have 1.9M IDR with me and that has to include shipping.

VEIKK A15 PRO has programmable buttons (and dial, though not sure if this is necessary) and solid specs for its price (8192 pressure level, 5080lpi, 230mm width, passive pen) and its actually available judging from most recent reviews.

My plan was to get a Huion Q620m, but recent reviews points it to a year ago so stock has likely dried up on top of it being quite expensive (it was cutting close at 1.6m IDR, then I won't have enough for shipping).

Additionally, XP Pen is quite appealing whether the Deco 01 v3 or the Deco Pro

Additional notes (and questions):

• Most of the non-display tablets I've seen are the cheap ones that either aren't likely to be Matte, too small or just more optimized for a phone than it is for desktop use, I might've missed a good one.
• The good ones I narrowed down have increasingly sparse reviews when sorted from most recent, it likely indicates either people simply don't buy drawing tablets as often (lovely shrinking middle class, or just better alternatives because mobile tabs exists, or maybe because I'm missing out on a good budget drawing tablet because some of these are years old since release??)
• I avoid display tablets because I simply don't have enough money for a decent one.

Things I worried about:

• Many of the stuff I scoured through have recent reviews since at least a year ago, not months, it may have sold out, or people moved on to better alternatives, if so do reply.
• The green elephant in the room; Tokopedia. I got my laptop from Tokopedia right before the enshittification after the hostile takeover by tiktok got really bad but is it worth still buying stuff there considering the only other option is also a notorious platform where they have the tendency of shipping up to 3 months late or even, steal your stuff and replace it with a capstone?

(was about to use serious discussion tag but i thought mods might remove it for not being serious enough, but anyway)

long story short, my friend, a hakka chinese (non-religious) buddhist friend of mine had his KTP changed without his consent during exam season. He was preparing for UTBK around the same time so he was very busy and he only found out very recently when he got into bureaucratic scrutiny for not matching his religion field in his KTP correctly, which was then already changed to "Kristen".

Here's other facts:

• His old KTP was with him and his parents managed to change his KTP at the clerk's office without his old KTP present (obviously no consent here)
• He's already in the age of majority (18), so technically something like this would require consent from him
• He was not baptized, he has never been to the church (other than school events but even then, its not his parents' congregation)
• He repeatedly made it explicit that he doesn't want to get involved and be converted

Why is this a big deal?

Because like the other abrahamic religion, it comes with certain obligations. Consider that kristen (Protestantism) is a very organized religion with quite the pervasive youth culture >!(I can't find a good euphemism but it really puts you in there if you're one, kyk maksa bngt gitu)!<, what this means in practice is, in his university, he might have to be active in organisasi kerohanian, do extra counseling and doctrine classes on top of regular coursework, that organisasi kerohanian thing especially is the biggest burden will be elaborated in my next point:

Why can't he just LARP like me, a kristen KTP?

unlike him, I lived my entire life (pretending to be) a protestant, as much as I put up the act, a lot of places seemingly burden you with additional obligations as a christian as much as it would be for muslims. I had to attend mandatory chapel (aptly named "ibadah pembangunan karakter") in a secular public highschool and the kerohanian was made up by your average new movement charismatic evangelical youth people and same thing could be said with possibly kerohanian orgs in other universities they would make events in this so-called "kristen pemuda" in imported american evangelical theology, which have you waste 4 hours singing and listen to cryptobro pastors instead of doing something remotely intellectually stimulating like a calvinist sermon would.

Sorry if I come across as polemical and generalizing, this might or might not be an isolated case where simply the evangelical pervasivion was strong enough >!(my prior experience was, they mocked this one calvinist reform church from Jakarta, as if their style isn't undignifying, it does offend me as a former calvinist and this is not the only tendency you get)!<and you're effectively forced into it with presensi, refleksi essays and such and so on, and I and my friend considered murphy's law and well, it could very be that he had to invest some effort into blending in and proving he's christian enough to maintain decent grade in his religion coursework, which I found amusing because as someone who is very knowledgeable in natural sciences, i think he's better off learning objectively and to stick with buddhism (because I was told buddhism coursework doesn't force you to organize to this extent and be "committed") rather than trying to entertain what is essentially ancient jewish myth.

Scripture Retrospective (why this is wrong, bible edition):

2 Korintus 9:7 (TB2, Chapt. Memberi dengan sukacita membawa berkat):

>Hendaklah masing-masing memberikan menurut kerelaan hatinya, jangan dengan sedih hait atau karena paksaan, sebab Allah mengasihi orang yang memberi dengan sukacita.

while this is more in the context of tithe/offering, this shows this specific god appears to value sincerity in general, including in belief and conviction.

Lukas 9:51-56 (TB2, Chapt. Yesus dan orang Samaria)

>[51] Ketika hampir genap waktunya Yesus diangkat ke surga, Ia mengambil keputusan untuk pergi ke Yerusalem, [52] dan Ia mengirim beberapa utusan mendahului Dia. Mereka itu pergi, lalu masuk ke suatu desa orang Samaria untuk mempersiapkan segala sesuatu bagi-Nya. [53] Namun, orang-orang Samaria itu tidak mau menerima Dia karena keputusan-Nya untuk pergi ke Yerusalem. [54] Ketika dua murid-Nya, yaitu Yakobus dan Yohanes melihat hal itu, mereka berkata, "Tuhan, apakah Engkau mau, supaya kami menyuruh api turun dari langit untuk membinasakan mereka?" [55] Tetapi, Ia berpaling dan menegur mereka. [56] Lalu mereka pergi ke desa yang lain

Jesus is rejected, then his followers suggested coercion, then Jesus refused. All in all, I think this and the other passage are indications that conviction should not be imposed.

another good part to read is in the next chapter after it, specifically in Lukas 9:61-62 (TB2, Chapt. Mengikut Yesus):

>[61] Seorang yang lain lagi berkata, "Aku akan mengikut ENgkau, Tuhan, tetapi izinkanlah aku pamitan dahulu dengan keluargaku." [62] Yesus berkata kepadanya, "Setiap orang yang siap untuk membajak tetapi menoleh ke belakang, tidak layak untuk Kerajaan Allah."

coming as a person who isn't fully convinced of such faithful promises, kerajaan Allah among other things, then it was simply not for him, remember, he had no plans to baptize and do christian rituals.

(end of post discussion, thought I would try add other details but I got carried away and forgot what thoughts to put in prior and this is already sitting in my draft for the last night, I'm just going to reply where I need to clarify. Also, if you feel offended, feel free to just ignore this post instead of downvote bombing it, this is quite the matter)

Post-Scriptum:

So far, he had talked it out with his parents and nothing was done, so he had to go to the dukcapil on his own and try to get it sorted out, I wonder if you could actually have a different religion from the rest of your household's (I've heard someone said its not possible to change because his KK is kristen, but I've also seen multi-faith households, or is it because he's still legally a child with no consent over this?). Another thing, his school, of course a christian private school, warned about not finalizing any changes according to KK/KTP in regards to his Ijazah. Then again, he was not made known of the change.

What's the deal with ethnic Chinese households converting to christianity (protestant and catholic) like this? I mean it could've been a lot worse that my friend's household got into the newer evangelical movements but fortunately they stopped at just being really into a traditional mainline denomination, but then again, even personally myself as someone from said traditional mainline denomination, my tinfoil hat gets more legendary each passing day and after I found out even that one bible distribution NGO, the gideons, was funded by zi*nist churches in America, my tinfoil hat here is platinum plated, this is among other things it felt like being in protestantism is either you're stuck in a bureaucratic hell of traditional liturgy with the old folks or, if you dare go with the modern youth one, you get spoonfed imported american evangelicalism, moloch or baal, your choice. I tolerated this because I've already lived this way for the rest of my life but my friend here just got into it and I want him to still be able to invest time in things he's interested in and talk about it, admitted I still rely on the guy to study for things together, and he is likely to be thrown deep into that shit, the mobilization and organization thing, it can be exhausting speaking from experience.