Wish all the companies I bought from called me a zombie from the abyss 🥰
Yeah, they’re batshit
I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.
Well that was a crazy read. Never seen a company act this way before. Sounds like a very small operation. Unfortunately their products don’t appeal to me at all, I’d much rather buy a Framework.
Fortunately
This is not the first time Malibal made an appearance.
Last time I heard about them, they shafted the CoreBoot people then also banned the several countries from doing business with them.
Malibal is legitimately insane.
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It’s clear that MALIBAL sucks. Whoops, just got all Lemmy users and their mothers banned. My bad.
It makes me sad that you had to spend so much time with this topic. But thank you for publishing it ❤️
Oh no I’m not the person who runs the blog. I just saw it posted on the Tumblr Linux community and wanted to repost it here. Happy to share it ofc! 😄
Wait Nicco Loves Linux isn’t it that KDE dev?
Yeah he’s a KDE dev and has an actually quite good YouTube channel that really should have more subscribers than it does
Agreed
https://www.malibal.com/legal/terms/
This is so hilariously unhinged. Fun starts at “Geographical Restrictions”
Use of Google Products and Services
Users are prohibited from accessing this website using any Google products or services. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Gmail: Users may not use Gmail to register, login, or otherwise interact with this site.
- Google Chrome: Users may not use the Google Chrome web browser to access this site. – Exception: De-Googled forks of Chrome are allowed.
- Google Pixel Phones: Users may not use Google Pixel phones or any other Google-branded hardware to access this site.
- Android: Users may not use the Android operating system in its standard, Google-integrated form. – Exception: De-Googled versions of Android.
- Other Google Services: Any other services or products provided by Google, including but not limited to Google Search, Google Drive, Google Meet, and Google Workspace, are also prohibited from accessing this site.
Enforcement: If it is determined that any user has accessed this website using any of the aforementioned Google products or services, > we reserve the right to terminate the user’s access to the site immediately without notice.
That’s cool
Google apple and reddit must have really pissed them off to include this in their terms.
If they have the ability to accurately detect/enforce any of that, I’d be way more impressed with their fingerprinting techniques than any of the hardware they’re selling
Hey, at least they promote Lemmy!
Most of this is because of some drama where they tried to port coreboot by lowballing some coreboot agencies who eventually told him to fuck off
Lmao, they prohibit anyone using any Google device or service, any Apple device or service and any (active) Reddit user.
Ah, so another Terry Davis except without slurs (yet)
Well, like all the attitude of Terry without the genius to back it up. The “about” pages and stuff just read like your typical “One superior genius started this company” grift myth.
First I thougt its just a prank by a bored social media intern, but it looks like the whole company is built on this insane absurd communication. It was a hilarious read :D
The whole company is just the one guy. He obviously has mental health issues.
how the hell are they still in business lmao
No publicity is bad publicity I guess?
Just as a info, they are a Clevo reseller: https://linustechtips.com/topic/802163-clevo-custom-laptops-and-world-clevo-resellers/#comment-10086025
That probably also applies to a lot of other small size linux laptop companies that are not doing a lot of custom stuff in their laptops.
That company is probably owned by This guy.
Yet another micro-celebrity whose 3 section wikipedia page has one third of it dedicated to “Sexual misconduct allegations”
For the record Veitch is just a
comedianalleged rapist with absolutely no affiliation with MALIBAL. MALIBAL is run by Matthew Plott as listed here on their site.
wow havent seen anything this moody in a long while
I kind of like the utter insanity that seems to be their norm. Not going to buy anything from them but still.
As i understand it, the OEM business has razor thin margins as it is. This seems like an aggressively unsustainable business practice, to the point that it’s making me wonder what their game is…
I was under the impression, from reading one of the developers write of his interaction with the owner, that they’re just selling dropped shipped white label laptops.
They’re simply add branding and a disk image which the white label manufacturer applies before shipping.
So it doesn’t even seem to be an OEM… Just some guy trying to make an easy buck with some slick marketing and white label laptops… he just couldn’t get the image setup and failed spectacularly in collaboration with the people who could help him.
