- cross-posted to:
- lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
- cross-posted to:
- lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
Wish all the companies I bought from called me a zombie from the abyss 🥰
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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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https://www.malibal.com/legal/terms/
This is so hilariously unhinged. Fun starts at “Geographical Restrictions”
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!
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.
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
That’s cool
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
What in the fuck?
It just kept going. Calling customers “zombies”… bannung people from using chrome to access website, banning “regular reddit users”… banning particular countries for pettt grudges with like, a few individuals???
I thought the article would end there. It just kept goooooooooinnnnggggggg
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…
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 don’t say they’ll ban everyone from Feddit…?
So, maybe there’s some hope for them yet…
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.
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
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…
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! 😄
I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.
Lmao theres gotta be a timeline in which Malibal ships to the DPRK and ONLY the DPRK
It’s clear that MALIBAL sucks. Whoops, just got all Lemmy users and their mothers banned. My bad.
Yeah, they’re batshit
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.
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
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.
