Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 minute ago

    Have you considered voluntary redundancy?

    No.

    Have you considered involuntary redundancy?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 hours ago

      Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.

      What about full application backups? I’ve got a few offline apps, I’d like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to “approved” this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)… I don’t recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).

      • down daemonEnglish
        5•2 hours ago

        my bank app is specificially listed as working but i would def check

  • sunzu2
    97•12 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.

    • @TK420English
      39•11 hours ago

      I’m ready for Linux-phone, but maybe GraphineOS is my gateway. I’m tired of my iPhone not doing the things it should.

      • sunzu2
        22•11 hours ago

        it is also doing a lot of shit it shouldn’t ;)

        • @WhatAmLemmyEnglish
          2•9 hours ago

          I’ve been trying to take ownership of my data and simplify my digital life. The greatest barrier to this by far is Apple/iOS.

          Sure am glad I picked that walled garden 15 years ago, when I was none the wiser.

          • C A B B A G EEnglish
            1•7 minutes ago

            I have to use an iPhone for work and I don’t understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that’s before data fuckery.

  • @[email protected]English
    21•9 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)

    • DekkiaEnglish
      11•4 hours ago

      Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the “free “forever”” offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.

    • plz1English
      15•7 hours ago

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

    • @iopqEnglish
      2•7 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

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
    45•12 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.

  • ALQEnglish
    31•12 hours ago

    Did they title the offer “Fork in the Road,” too?