sovietknuckles [they/them]

You can use Bumblebee to ensure your game is the only thing that gets the GPU by running only it through optirun (AMD support is probably not coming soon)

You can also use taskset to ensure that only your game gets physical CPU cores, and everything else gets efficiency CPU cores

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.

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.

I change the email address before deleting. If the deletion requires email confirmation, I’ll change it to a disposable email address. Otherwise, I’ll make up an email address with a nonexistent domain name