Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    152·
    5 hours ago

    I don’t work for Google. I’m but a voluntary product customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I’d gladly take it.

    Right now I’m moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

    That’s the other rub…if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

    (I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers…only reason I’m considering Oracle is because they give so much free “forever”. And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 hours ago

      Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter…

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I’m in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    751·
    7 hours ago

    Imagine all of this talent going to work for grapheneOS and/or hardware company willing to make a phone with grapheneOS as its OS.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    7 hours ago

    Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.

    At least there’s some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn’t change much of course.