Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development (opens in new tab)

The silent majority appreciate each of you, Asahi Lina, Alyssa Rosenzweig, and Hector Martin. You don’t hear from them because it’s not in their nature, for better or worse.

Your generosity and hard work have made possible things that previously seemed impossible. Wonderful things exist because you worked to make them. Thank you.

Edit: Upon further inspection... almost every phoronix comment thread seems to be this toxic.

Asahi Lina is an alternate “vtuber” personality of Hector Martin. So it makes sense his alternate personality would also quit.

Rather than rehash it yet again, you can do an HN comment search for “asahi lina“ and get the facts.

TL;DR: Hector has goofed a few times and revealed himself on livestreams. I was super interested in this work.

I watched a couple of them myself and can confirm at least 2 of these incidents, including one where his vtuber video overlay failed and revealed himself.

Anyway, don’t want people to be confused with what’s going on. He’s got problems, like us all, and I hope he finds peace.

Edit: Alyssa Rosenzweig is a real person and not one of Hector’s identities. And quite brilliant.