Found my new favorite Linux laptop manufacturer/j
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from LlamaByte@lemmings.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 2025 23:24
https://lemmings.world/post/21867882
from LlamaByte@lemmings.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 2025 23:24
https://lemmings.world/post/21867882
Wish all the companies I bought from called me a zombie from the abyss š„°
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It makes me sad that you had to spend so much time with this topic. But thank you for publishing it ā¤ļø
Oh no Iām 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! š
What in the fuck?
It just kept going. Calling customers āzombiesāā¦ bannung people from using chrome to access website, banning āregular reddit usersāā¦ banning particular countries for pettt grudges with like, a few individuals???
Probably just shitty ass company. honestly their act like ass to everyone tell me is bis red flag company
This hurts to read because of how badly written it is. Do you not read what youāve written?
I thought the article would end there. It just kept goooooooooinnnnggggggg
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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Well that was a crazy read. Never seen a company act this way before. Sounds like a very small operation. Unfortunately their products donāt appeal to me at all, Iād much rather buy a Framework.
Fortunately
Lmao theres gotta be a timeline in which Malibal ships to the DPRK and ONLY the DPRK
I kind of like the utter insanity that seems to be their norm. Not going to buy anything from them but still.
Itās clear that MALIBAL sucks. Whoops, just got all Lemmy users and their mothers banned. My bad.
Wait Nicco Loves Linux isnāt it that KDE dev?
Yeah heās a KDE dev and has an actually quite good YouTube channel that really should have more subscribers than it does
Agreed
www.malibal.com/legal/terms/
This is so hilariously unhinged. Fun starts at āGeographical Restrictionsā
Lmao, they prohibit anyone using any Google device or service, any Apple device or service and any (active) Reddit user.
Hey, at least they promote Lemmy!
Thatās cool
If they have the ability to accurately detect/enforce any of that, Iād be way more impressed with their fingerprinting techniques than any of the hardware theyāre selling
Google apple and reddit must have really pissed them off to include this in their terms.
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
That company is probably owned by This guy.
Yet another micro-celebrity whose 3 section wikipedia page has one third of it dedicated to āSexual misconduct allegationsā
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.Ah, so another Terry Davis except without slurs (yet)
Well, like all the attitude of Terry without the genius to back it up. The āaboutā pages and stuff just read like your typical āOne superior genius started this companyā grift myth.
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 itās making me wonder what their game isā¦
I was under the impression, from reading one of the developers write of his interaction with the owner, that theyāre just selling dropped shipped white label laptops.
Theyāre simply add branding and a disk image which the white label manufacturer applies before shipping.
So it doesnāt even seem to be an OEMā¦ Just some guy trying to make an easy buck with some slick marketing and white label laptopsā¦ he just couldnāt get the image setup and failed spectacularly in collaboration with the people who could help him.
In the modern parlance, i believe that counts as an OEM but the more accurate term that no one uses is probably a VAR
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
how the hell are they still in business lmao
No publicity is bad publicity I guess?
The whole company is just the one guy. He obviously has mental health issues.
finally, the official laptop of schizophrenia
Need to install templeOS on it
Yeah, theyāre batshit
Thatās the wildest company that Iāve ever seen
As a KDE person, the random potshot at KDE for absolutely no reason is what got me lol.
KDE catching strays š
sorry did the author not come across the companies own about page?
www.malibal.com/features/about-us/
lol thats neat, malibal is based directly across the street from the palms casino in vegas.
<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/511ef790-0b7e-4ce5-9fe8-4b112b858df1.png"> š
watch me get all of DC banned for that emoji
That āaboutā page is fucking wild. They spend like half the page sucking themselves off over how great of a job they did designing their own logo, and then the other half telling the user the proper way to reference the company and its products. I really want to spend some time on the live chat breaking all the rules, like not capitalizing every letter of their nameā¦
www.malibal.com/legal/terms/
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.bascul.in/pictrs/image/2a8ef2e3-f0ff-43e3-aa68-513282016845.png">
lmao Iām copying this part to my instanceās legal section
Site doesnāt load
Edit: after several attempts, it did load. But its fucking dark grey font on a black background. Canāt read this shit. Hereās the actual website
www.malibal.com
Perfectly readable white text on a black background on my devices. The problem must be on your end.
Accessed the website using Chrome, on a Google Pixel, routed through a VPN exiting from Colorado.
Was looking for specifically an AMD laptop. WHAT NOW MALIBAL
No soup for you!
But I notice that they donāt say theyāll ban everyone from Fedditā¦?
So, maybe thereās some hope for them yetā¦
Another scam company like framework trying to charge exorbitant fees for computers without dedicated GPUs.
Donāt be fooled by the viral marketing/useful idiots, guys. Just go with the product thatās the best deal for you.
Framework 16 does have a dedicated GPU option, and itās upgradable.
ā¦FW16 is a great Linux machine. It also had CAD drawings available that have been allowing me to sketch out possible physical modifications. It also has a PCIe 4.0 x4 available for either the GPU they sell or any other device that I decide to make.
What specifically about Framework do you think is a scam? Iād genuinely like to know since thatās been the opposite of my experience.
You can buy better hardware for cheaper prices.
Framework exists to take advantage of naive people who are just trying to fit in with strangers on the internet.
You can indeed buy better hardware for many purposes for cheaper.
Want a gaming laptop? Or a runs Linux out of the box laptop? FW is not even close to the best value there.
Want a laptop with well-documented physical specs, including CAD drawings to make readily modifiable and upgradeable, potentially being the last laptop chassis that one needs to buy? Nothing else comes close to touching FW.
I avoid ads, so, maybe theyāre inappropriately marketing as gaming laptops. Iād not call that a scam but would say that itās ethically questionable, at best. FW is a laptop for people prioritizing long-term repairability and tinkering over everything else.
but, he doesnāt like it, so itās a scam. itās not enough just to not buy it, he has to bitch about it and save the world from this evil, malignant company selling extremely customizable Linux laptops with versatile expansion options.
wow havent seen anything this moody in a long while
Just as a info, they are a Clevo reseller: linustechtips.com/ā¦/802163-clevo-custom-laptops-aā¦
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.
I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.
Skikk is a clevo reseller too. Those laptops are very nice. They do however sound like a jet engine when the game starts. But I just turn the volume up higher and then I donāt hear it anymore.