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For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Well that's sudden.

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[–] mke@programming.dev 11 points 16 hours ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.

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[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

Guessing it's because Lina is queer. A little bit ago, I was trying to find what was going on and found a bunch of bigoted comments and conspiracy theories about her and her girlfriend(maybe wife now?).

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[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most of it was pretty much said in the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership. The TL:DR is that people are incredibly entitled, support took a huge downturn, but demands kept rising, and allegedly there have been numerous personal attacks on people. The Linux project leadership drama was just the whipped cream on top of the cake

[–] rah@feddit.uk 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership

What announcement?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago (22 children)

First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the worst way how to announce something like this.

I don't know the context, but if the goal was to not start a wave of speculations, it would be better to simply not hint at anything. I wonder what happened, and I respect if they don't want to deal with it, but this does feel weird.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 13 points 20 hours ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

I no longer feel safe

Please don’t make assumptions

Yeah wtf is that. If there are reasons to feel unsafe that arent just entirely individual, then you should tell other people that might be in danger. If its entirely individual, then state that so that other people wont be worried about their safety.

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