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Asahi Lina: 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. (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah classic attention seeking behaviour. Just say you're stopping work on it for personal reasons, or give details. The only reason to tease gossip like this is because you like the drama.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Wtf is with this downvote brigade?

Edit: if anyone else is as fucking lost as I was, apparently this is some situation where the person who is resigning is trans, so obviously not attention seeking behavior even if the post is written in a truly bonkers way. Hence the downvote brigade for the above. Whether that person knew or not is open for debate since I don't see anything in the OP indicating anything at all to this effect and had to get it from an unrelated thread but...