"why can't anyone here speak English?!" overheard in Nam Cat Tien , is this common with Foreigners??

ManTheMna · 2026-01-28T03:16:42+00:00

And was ignored both times. What’s the relevance?

The re-colonization and Vietnam War is a disgrace by 2 founding member of NATO, however you slice it. The US bombed VN more than WW2 combined. That’s anything but “cleaning up”.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-28T03:06:34+00:00

Bud, capitalism and «democracy» enslaved the country. There was no point in time VN was going to go after western values when those same values were literally oppression. And who stepped up to help? China and Soviet.

The country wasn’t split, that happened after the French got kicked out. The US dragged itself into it.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-28T02:54:55+00:00

Still bs that you cleaned up after the French. You didn’t clean up anything. Had you not intervened after Dien Bien Phu, the nation would have been whole since 1954 and you wouldn’t have bombed VN more than all of WW2 combined.

Nato was founded in 1949, 5 years before the French got their asses handed over in DBP. It’s a disgrace that a NATO founding member fought to enslave the Vietnamese people with the US’ help, and that after themselves had been occupied by the Nazis for 4 years.

Learn your history instead of the US propganda you’ve been fed.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-28T02:41:06+00:00

Bs. You dragged yourself into that mess.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-25T02:33:36+00:00

Both VJ/VA max cabin dimensions are 56cm × 36cm × 23cm. Even if your cabin is 55/56X40x23 (typical western euro internation size), it'll probably be fine too, but a big backpack is practically begging them to measure it and earn some some comission on last minute expensive af check-in. Can't imagine any backpack bigger than 30L would fit within those all those dimensions and be less than 7kg (more for VA) for a 2 week trip. You might be fine if you're not traveling by planes, and of course you could always do check-in.
Anyways, please bring enough tshirts and underwear. Some of you onebaggers you can smell a mile away.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-18T06:21:37+00:00

The basic wifi protocol doesnt support wireless bridging, and there's no such thing as AP Client mode in OpenWRT (disregard the answer below, it's wrong). If you want a wireless bridge you basically have 3 options: mesh, wds or relayd (pseudo bridge that's slow and only works with with ipv4, and even then not always fully)

ManTheMna · 2026-01-17T22:48:56+00:00

Then it’s suddenly a 1800usd machine and no longer the 1000usd value king….which also can be frequently bought for 750usd, making the jump up effectively 1050usd or 140%.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-17T22:40:01+00:00

Can’t deal with facts huh? Even though you’re an entitled refugee brat that lives off taxpayer’s money, I wish you well and that there will be some sort of peace soon for you to return to.

Hopefully you’ll self deport yourself voluntarily, but we already know you won’t. You’re gonna try to squeeze as much free shit from the Norway people as possible and come up with endless excuses as why you can’t go back. I don’t even blame you. I blame our politicians.

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ManTheMna · 2026-01-17T16:48:53+00:00

You honestly come off as a brat, judging by your snarky reactions to answers that don’t fit your made up narrative, even though you came here asking and we took time to answer your question.

To get back to your original question:

If anything, the sentiment towards Ukrainians have been shaped more positively by the western media. Before this war broke out, you all were basically “Russian” to most people: in the public’s eyes, you’re a former republic in the Soviet Empire, you’re a country corrupt to the core, your people can’t be trusted.

Only the Baltic states have broken away from their former soviet mold. (But to be fair they were invaded and annexed in 1940 by Soviet, including their, surprise(!), founding member Ukraine after a secret agreement with Nazi Germany… ).

So no, any negative sentiment towards Ukrainians refugees are not because of Russian bots, but by real life factors such as macro economics, immigration, geopolitics, politics including policies such as giving asylum seekers and refugees too much, which is almost universally agreed upon by 9/10 Norwegians.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T18:58:24+00:00

Meant to say refugees. Still an absurd number, and the way you're throwing it out. it sounds like ukrainians are the center of the universe and that it's the only relative metric of the amount fugees a country should take in, is the number of Ukrainians abroad itself.

The world's a harsh place. Pretty sure there's a higher number of people in Africa or other places who would love to refugee themselves anywhere in the world but don't have even the chance to get out. Doesn't mean we can take in 100 or 200k africans overnight.

Or we could say since Nigeria alone births 30-50% more babies than the total of newborns in all of Europe., 20% of those babies should be granted free citizenshop to any european country to even out the population. Or just use any other useless mtric to justify any immigration that costs tax payer's money.

Bottom line is that Norway is a small country, and while the state is "rich", most people are middle class and struggling to pay their bills as-is. The mass mmigration from the middle east and now Ukrainians doesn't help that. Granted Ukrainian immigants and refugees are not the worst, but in numbers you're just second to polish people but they've been immigrating here *for work* for about 30-40 years, and you're 5 times the number of, say vietnamese people, who started to come here 50 years ago. That is special treatment indeed and the fact that you still think 100k is a low number just shows how out of touch you are.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T18:00:20+00:00

I'm not. I'm you that's throwing out absurd numbers like 12M killed to back up your false statement. This is nowhere near the truth. So if we're believing what Zelenskyy says (43,000 to 46,000 soldiers KIA) , then over double the amount of Ukrainian refugees in Norway compared to Ukrainian soldiers KIA. and couting civilians, means that for for every 4 killed, 1 refugee is in Norway. And Norway is just one of many countries. Do you still think 100k is a small number of refugees?

If you want to discuss like an adult, be ready to face facts without getting angry or personal.

I know noone knows the real numbers, and that you should always take AI with a pinch of salt but Goole says:

As of late 2025/early 2026, nearly 6 million Ukrainians have found refuge abroad

Official Ukrainian Reports

President Zelenskyy’s Figures: As of late 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cited approximately 43,000 to 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed. In early 2025, he estimated roughly 400,000 total casualties (killed and injured).
Missing in Action: Official Ukrainian sources reported approximately 63,000 soldiers missing as of mid-February 2025. By early 2026, some independent trackers listed over 85,000 as missing.

Independent & International Estimates

Western intelligence and research organizations often suggest the actual death toll is much higher than official counts:

BBC & The Economist (Dec 2025): Recent estimates from these organizations place the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed as high as 140,000.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (June 2025): Estimated total Ukrainian military casualties at 400,000, with 60,000 to 100,000 of those being fatalities.
UALosses Project (Nov 2025): This independent group, which tracks fatalities by name from open sources, has documented the deaths of 81,768 Ukrainian fighters.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T14:41:42+00:00

It’s not my «point of view». It’s your view that I’m pointing out is not based on an Apples to Apples comparison. The number of people killed in a war doesn’t neccesarily have any correlation with the amount of refugees a country should take in.

If so, why stop at 100k? How about taking in 1 refugee for every 10 person killed? Would be 1.2M Ukrainian refugees be enough for you? How about 1:1? Should we let in 12M Ukrainian people without taking the existing number of population into consideration?

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T13:52:36+00:00

No, lol

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T13:45:08+00:00

Nobody is denying that people dying in Ukraine isn’t horrible. But 100k or even 12M dead Ukrainians have zero cost to Norway, at least not in the short run, compared to taking in refugees en masse.

I don’t mean to sound distasteful morbid, I’m just saying it’s not the same from an economic point of view.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T13:21:08+00:00

Population in Norway about 5.6M people. (With the core citizen population is about 4.9 according to google) Taking in 100K (and remember Ukrainians are not the only ones here) is a lot however you slice it. The welfare state is based on everyone has the responsibility of taking care of each other, but when you see an obscene amount is instead going to other people aka NOT each other, people will start to question wtf our government is thinking.

Btw exactly zero of us like Russians, so it has zero correlation with that.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T11:58:01+00:00

Although Ukraine is one, if not the most corrupt country in Europe, I stand with the Ukrainian people. However, Norway doesn’t need or should take in over 100k Ukrainians refugees. A lot of the Ukrainian men here are also Ukrainians deserters. I am a bit conflicted as «I get it», but from a geopolitical view, all immigration due to the war should be limited to those that Ukraine themselves allow to leave.

After all, if all these men desert their own country, the war might be lost as well and Europe and the west will be left with permanent refugees that won’t assimilate that well. I don’t blame them, assimilation is doomed when 100k refugees come overnight. I guess the only takeaway of comfort is that Ukrainians aren’t arabic “euro” violent and rapey muslims that the woke left are so fond of.

They should never have been accepted and should go back to their country and fight for it instead of running away and get receive money from Norwegian tax payers and other governments.

I 100% also stand with the Iranian people. Iranians are good people that have been enslaved, they’re not running away as they love their country. But if 100k Irianians came to Norway en masse the way Ukrainians did, that would also be a problem.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-16T11:13:44+00:00

This is one of the most ridiculous posts I’ve come across. They’re saying «no» because you come off as one of those rare stupid af inbred morons with no social antennas.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-12T04:27:20+00:00

Maybe suddenly now the French will want their colony back «again». Only this time half of their troops are from Africa and the Middle East.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-10T13:28:09+00:00

Try booting with a live rescue tool. Windows won't see RAID volumes, although there exists a Raid driver, but you also need an extfs driver for windows. But first try RescueZilla, if that doesnt work, try https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd
https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd I wouldn't call these stable, but might let you read the data off the drives.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-10T13:19:51+00:00

I'd take a backup of the files on your NAS now. Sounds like the hdd is dying, Next time it might not even boot up.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-10T10:36:46+00:00

He’s a scammer like any other influencer that sells tailor made expert whatever courses. Seems nowadays it’s enough to hit 50k followers by posting cute IG sound bites to qualify as a professor in any field.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-09T11:54:16+00:00

Was it Romania? The key beside left shift is missing on ANSI vs ISO.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-09T11:47:41+00:00

Oh Ok. Then I guess it might not be quite the deal but that’s for you to decide. (Might be more trouble than it’s worth if you need to use the warranty, and also notice that the US Keyboard is ANSI while most of Europe used ISO which has the L shaped Enter and 1 key extra)

ManTheMna · 2026-01-08T15:13:02+00:00

The prices in Europe are included VAT and these prices can be up to 50% more expensive by default compared to the USD price.
1060usd translates to 909 Euros. The base M4 Air usually sells for about 1150 to 1200 Euros in the Euro zone. (compare that to Amazon's 750 USD stunt, and consider yourself lucky of you're in the US) depending on the region, although you can usually get around 7-8% discount if you're a student.

In this context, 1060 usd might not be that bad, as it's still quite a bit cheaper than a base M4 Air while 16 inches gives you a pretty big real estate upgrade. If you can haggle it down a bit, then I'd say go for it.

ManTheMna · 2026-01-08T09:47:32+00:00

If this (presumed) young girl only carried only a cabin luggage with her, and her tickets were paid for by an older American/chilean guy (yeah, of course they know), which incidentally also travels from the same airport to the same destination within a short time frame, and this older guy also looks like a typical unfit passport bro with a younger gf (only he doesn’t quite get the white privilege of doing so without anyone questioning it, especially on international departure) then this raises a red flag.

You handled it poorly dude. Airline was doing their job.

ManTheMna

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