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Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Poland, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience (www.malibal.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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While the whole exchange must've sucked for them, I've found their reaction extremely amusing at times, especially the carpet banning for life of everyone within a country/state to the offending party. But hey, that'll definitely show AMD how to hire those coreboot developers

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So they're just Clevo reseller?

The sure made it sound they're way more than that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, at least they used to be a while back: https://l.opnxng.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/ukgaf/general_consensus_on_malibal/

Just tried to find teardowns of more recent laptops of theirs to see if it's still the case, rather unsuccessfully. Although, I've found a few more reviews (in addition to those in the comments):

Soo, now I'm even more skeptical of their statement that their communications to those developers were nothing but polite

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit what a nut job. Reading the comments the real gold is apparently their terms of service. They've got a giant laundry list of things that will get you banned including using Chrome or having a gmail email address.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just who the fuck do they think they are?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

A techbro without money, so an obnoxious incel.