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

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    84 months ago

    Wait Nicco Loves Linux isn’t it that KDE dev?

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    284 months ago

    It makes me sad that you had to spend so much time with this topic. But thank you for publishing it ❤️

    • @[email protected]OP
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      384 months ago

      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! 😄

  • Axum
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    1004 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    564 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    I kind of like the utter insanity that seems to be their norm. Not going to buy anything from them but still.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 months ago

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

      • Lem Jukes
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        54 months 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.

    • SeekPie
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      314 months 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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      214 months ago

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    • @[email protected]
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      94 months 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

  • @[email protected]
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    264 months 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…

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    444 months 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
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      264 months ago

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