Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development (www.phoronix.com)
from OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 19 Mar 06:50
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Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Mar 07:24 next collapse

Feel safe? You think Apple is targeting them?

EDIT: not the case for all we know, situation seems to be complex and they don’t want speculation

vt.social/@lina/114184253273866198

jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Mar 07:28 next collapse

Well, Apple aren’t Boeing.

I would like to think that the days of Steve Jobs storming into a meeting and firing everyone are past us.

reallyzen@lemmy.ml on 19 Mar 07:53 next collapse

I believe this statement is a protest about apple following the current trend of oligarchy brown-nosing the musk/trump administration and reversing all inclusive and diversity programmes, supports and policies.

Edit: seems to be more about harassment

It’s cute to see the massive amount of “take care of yourself! Your health is more important than work!” on Mastodon, but I feel it is completely beside the point.

I bought my m mac because of the Asahi project ; I wouldn’t buy it today because of apple current stance gulf of what exactly?

Auli@lemmy.ca on 19 Mar 20:43 next collapse

Where has Apple reversed there diversity programmes. As far as I have heard them and Costco are some of the only companies that didn’t.

reallyzen@lemmy.ml on 20 Mar 18:35 collapse

You are right and I am wrong ; I guess I jumped too fast after the gulf of america thing.

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eltheanine@moist.catsweat.com on 20 Mar 07:32 collapse

I don't buy shit based on a promise or expectation. I buy it based on what it is for me now.
It's the same reason I don't pre-order games.

crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz on 19 Mar 08:41 next collapse

From what I know it’s the people who are using asahi linux in general and it’s drivers.

Heard he got sent death threats.

[deleted] on 19 Mar 08:59 next collapse

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noodlejetski@lemm.ee on 19 Mar 22:10 next collapse

she.

bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Mar 03:36 collapse

An obviously talented programmer is no longer working on a free project that very few people can meaningfully contribute to - that is a shame.

I can’t even get myself to learn rust, let alone make a GPU driver while reverse engineering blackbox hardware.

Vincent@feddit.nl on 19 Mar 10:20 collapse

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

vt.social/@lina/114184253273866198

Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Mar 10:34 collapse

I dont know anything at all, thats why i am asking. Apple not being fan of Foss on their devices was just the first thing that comes to mind.

EDIT: Just saw you quoted them, nvm, thanks for the relay

Vincent@feddit.nl on 19 Mar 11:55 collapse

No worries! Thanks for updating your comment :)

[deleted] on 19 Mar 08:38 next collapse

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Vincent@feddit.nl on 19 Mar 10:18 next collapse

Someone might want to check that, because IIRC it was someone else’s alter ego.

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 19 Mar 10:28 next collapse

I don’t think this is true, they showed up to an event in person… people would’ve noticed.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 19 Mar 13:59 collapse

When?

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 19 Mar 14:03 collapse

Scroll through their mastodon, it’s there somewhere, I’ll look later if you can’t find it

notarobot@lemm.ee on 19 Mar 10:57 collapse

AFAIK, lina is a trans woman, so you might want to rephrase the alter ego part. Also, I do not understand the part that they “quit already”. Do you mean that this dude started working on Apple GPU drivers then quit and then line picked it up? Why would that be a bad thing?

muhyb@programming.dev on 19 Mar 13:43 next collapse

It seems Phoronix account-walled the comments section. Hmm.

Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml on 19 Mar 14:08 next collapse

Do you blame them for that considering the shit that’s hurled at Hector and Lina?

muhyb@programming.dev on 19 Mar 14:32 collapse

Actually haven’t seen the comments myself but I can guess at this point. Maybe he should’ve completely disable it for the article.

ProxyZeus@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 14:15 next collapse

Yeah it was terrible, he should have walled it earlier than he did.

muhyb@programming.dev on 19 Mar 14:33 collapse

I can only guess. People really act terrible sometimes.

aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works on 19 Mar 18:00 collapse

Holy shit, for phoronix to actually lock the comments for once it must have been dire

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 19 Mar 20:29 collapse

The Rust war is a travesty for OSS.