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

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    5 hours 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.

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    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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    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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      1 day ago

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

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      1 day 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

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      1 day ago

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      2 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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    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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    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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      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.

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        In the modern parlance, i believe that counts as an OEM but the more accurate term that no one uses is probably a VAR

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    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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    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???

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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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      …FW16 is a great Linux machine. It also had CAD drawings available that have been allowing me to sketch out possible physical modifications. It also has a PCIe 4.0 x4 available for either the GPU they sell or any other device that I decide to make.

      What specifically about Framework do you think is a scam? I’d genuinely like to know since that’s been the opposite of my experience.

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        You can buy better hardware for cheaper prices.

        Framework exists to take advantage of naive people who are just trying to fit in with strangers on the internet.