issue is, so many things have been called transphobic, from mere personal opinions to accidents to actual transphobia, i just can't trust a blanket "foo is transphobic" comment.
it wouldn't work, because there is no unbreakable, unfoldable stick. the stick will have flex, and the force transmitted will occur much more slowly through the molecular chain of the stick than light's travel time.
reality is much more woobly and spongy than you know.
not familiar with the specific app you're using. am I reading that right, that you're throttling on power, current and temp?
if so, there's not much you can do. but if it's just temp throttling, you can get better fans/cooling.
if you're already satisfied with fans/cooling, then yes, you're pretty much using it to it's max.
to be clear:
throttling on power and current means you're getting as much as you can out of the hardware you have (without over clocking or similar). although, make sure your CPU governor is 'performance'.
throttling on temperature alone means you're not getting the most out of you're hardware that is technically possible, it means you're hitting the thermal TDP of the system. for some systems (laptops, generally), there's not much you can do there. but for others, you can tinker with cooling.
it seems much more niche than some other providers, but that's one of the great things about HA - lots of tinkerers use it, and some are bound to use Proton Drive.
it's often the people saying "don't listen to all the drama" that are making drama.
chill out. the guy has relevant concerns, and they matter deeply to him. ..and they matter deeply to us, the users of Linux. Rust in the kernel is a good step forward, but processes need to be in place not just for code, but for people who will be dealing with a new language in their formerly-c-only environment.
win hearts and minds, don't just kick the nest and blame the hornets if they sting you. recognize needs, even of those who are stubborn, and address them.
I'm a regular Gnome user. I love KDE's activities. I don't know if it's still required, but Latte dock made it so that you had a nice dock with clean animations, dropping and adding your preferred shortcuts for whatever activity you're currently on.
I generally had three activities, work, general, and play. switch to work, and it looks like all I do on this computer is work. professional look and feel, all the relevant applications available in a clean autohide dock. switch to play, and it's some sick background from anime or a game I'm currently into. Steam, Discord, Heroic, and various preferred games are the only visible icons on the dock. it's really a pleasure to use.
my problem is that when in Plasma, I miss Gnome's overview, though, and whenever I switch back to Gnome, it just feels homey, functional, and straight to the point. Sure, I lose some customizations, but I gain in simplicity. Overall, that itself is a big customization choice - whether to use Gnome, KDE, or something else. ..so I don't regret Gnome's lack of customizability, that's just Gnome fulfilling is niche well. But Plasma is always a close second for me.
it's all stuff you need to sort through to get to the relevant settings you want. Some people aren't there to learn to OS, they're only there to use it.
the things I wanted to do required a non-standard dock (latte?), but made activities so much nicer.
my dock only had icons on it that reflected the current activity, my backgrounds were different, all the tools for the specific activity that I was doing were immediately available, but weren't cluttering up the dock when I switched to other activities.
activities really are sweet, I'm sad to hear KDE is backpedaling on them.
That said, I've been using Gnome because the blended workflow of interacting with desktops, searching for applications, and working with open applications in the overview is just as sweet as it comes.
basically, there might be some conflicts, such as a different icon theme being selected, but for the most part, things are fine - and most distros, uninstall is straightforward.
one more significant issue you might run into is display manager changes. Gnome may not always play nicely with a kde display manager, and vice versa, regarding sleep, lock, etc. however, i think all of those issues are pretty much fixed these days.
"Ok, well, humans can't just teleport wherever they want, but what if they could?"
well, then they could, I guess.