Wish all the companies I bought from called me a zombie from the abyss 🥰
wow havent seen anything this moody in a long while
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.
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! 😄
That’s the wildest company that I’ve ever seen
As a KDE person, the random potshot at KDE for absolutely no reason is what got me lol.
Yeah, they’re batshit
Site doesn’t load
Edit: after several attempts, it did load. But its fucking dark grey font on a black background. Can’t read this shit. Here’s the actual website
Perfectly readable white text on a black background on my devices. The problem must be on your end.
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.
The one guy running it is clearly some teen grifter who learned about dropshipping and web dev from AI
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
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.
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
The whole company is just the one guy. He obviously has mental health issues.
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.
I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.
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.
What in the fuck?
It just kept going. Calling customers “zombies”… bannung people from using chrome to access website, banning “regular website users”… 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 you’ve written?
I thought the article would end there. It just kept goooooooooinnnnggggggg
It’s clear that MALIBAL sucks. Whoops, just got all Lemmy users and their mothers banned. My bad.
