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

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    5 hours 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

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    9 hours 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

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      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…

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      7 hours ago

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

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    16 hours 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

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    Another scam company like framework trying to charge exorbitant fees for computers without dedicated GPUs.

    Don’t be fooled by the viral marketing/useful idiots, guys. Just go with the product that’s the best deal for you.

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      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

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      11 hours ago

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

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    16 hours 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…

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      Perfectly readable white text on a black background on my devices. The problem must be on your end.

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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

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

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        9 hours 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.

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    9 hours ago

    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???