the asahi mess is limited to M1/2 models
As of the Asahi Linux blog post from 2 days ago, they’re working on SPMI controller support, which is part of M3 support.
I wouldn’t really call Asahi a mess, they upstream their patches to the Linux kernel and are a part of the Fedora project. Also, Linus uses Asahi Linux for his travel laptop, a MacBook Air.
which are like 5 years old at this point.
M2 models were released in June 2022, they aren’t 3 years old yet.
“Hey, it’s totally cool that Microsoft GitHub blocked access to one of the repositories in the very center of the xz backdoor saga,” Michal Woźniak, a white hat hacker who was part of a team that discovered DRM in a Polish train earlier this year wrote on Mastodon. “It’s not like a bunch of people are scrambling to try to make sense of all the right now, or that specific commits got linked to directly from media and blogposts and the like. Cool, cool.”
Security teams that break stuff to mitigate risk and call it fixed is exactly what Linus’s Do No Harm plea is about.
Edit: It’s still disabled
Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub’s terms of service.
Yes (see Question about Mac phoning home from 6 days ago, which is answered by the former Asahi Linux lead). There is no firmware-level Apple telemetry, and booting into Linux disables Find My.