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
    373·
    6 days 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
      15·
      5 days ago

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

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      I’ve seen enough traps set by Oracle to be extra afraid of any wooden horses they are offering up.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days 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