This Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie
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Two years ago I was contacted by a company called MALIBAL. They were interested in a sponsorship, where I would simply put their link in the video description and get money for it. I did a quick background check, and they seemed like a proper Linux hardware manufacturing company. I

Wish all the companies I bought from called me a zombie from the abyss 🥰

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    221·
    6 days ago

    I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.

    • SeekPie@lemm.ee
      30·
      7 days ago

      Lmao, they prohibit anyone using any Google device or service, any Apple device or service and any (active) Reddit user.

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      21·
      7 days ago

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    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      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

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
    441·
    7 days ago

    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

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      25·
      7 days ago

      As a KDE person, the random potshot at KDE for absolutely no reason is what got me lol.

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    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

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    7 days ago

    Now, I would love to know more about who’s behind MALIBAL, and what’s happening within the - probably, single-person - company. However, I have not found any information about that; if you have any, please feel free to contact me.

    sorry did the author not come across the companies own about page?

    https://www.malibal.com/features/about-us/

    lol thats neat, malibal is based directly across the street from the palms casino in vegas.

    😂

    watch me get all of DC banned for that emoji

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      That “about” 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 name…

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    26·
    7 days ago

    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…

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      13·
      7 days ago

      Yet another micro-celebrity whose 3 section wikipedia page has one third of it dedicated to “Sexual misconduct allegations”

      • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        For the record Veitch is just a comedian alleged rapist with absolutely no affiliation with MALIBAL. MALIBAL is run by Matthew Plott as listed here on their site.

  • signofzeta@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    It’s clear that MALIBAL sucks. Whoops, just got all Lemmy users and their mothers banned. My bad.

  • ray1992xd@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    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 don’t hear it anymore.