🤔 Friends, I hate to say this with fresh layoffs happening, but you are about to see how much "Big Tech ❤️s Open Source" after years of exploiting our work.
>$100 billion in cash reserves and record quarterly profits going back a decade doesn't provide even an ounce of job safety, job security, or even loyalty for the employees and projects who got them there.
If you believe otherwise and work for one of these companies, I hope you are mentally and financially ready for what is to come.
‼️ Update for some of you who wondered what I was referring to last week.
The news gets reported slowly. https://in.mashable.com/tech/74212/sundar-pichai-led-google-layoffs-entire-python-team-and-offshores-work-to-munich-programmers-are-wor
My resolve to dump Google will continue until I reach Google Zero.
@webology go for it. I left google services completely behind some years ago. It feels so good.
@oliverandrich @webology I am still stuck with gmail and leaving feels super hard.
This sounds like I need a support group 😂
@tcurdt @oliverandrich I suspect we all do.
I have struggled with it for years, and I knew I should stop using my Gmail for new website services, and now I am several hundred websites deeper in auth debt.
I keep meaning to a some time over a few lunch hours a week to update my email address, but I apparently need to schedule it, so I stop putting it off.
@webology @tcurdt I was in the very same position years ago, and had to move accounts away from google because I have used my gmail address every. After a few weeks I was so fed up with it that I simply deleted the gmail account. The important accounts have been moved to my personal domain and the rest... well, in case I need one again, I signed up for a new account.
What did you move to? And how was the rest of the migration?
...besides the manual website auth transitions.
@tcurdt @webology I switched to a personal domain and moved all my mails to mailbox.org. Since then I have moved at least 4 times again and now I am using Apples Mail service, cause it is easior for my wife. But I can now move easily without losing anything. For personal cloud storage we use Apple and a hosted NextCloud for contracts and stuff. But neither me or my wife are collectors. I think we use 400 GB Storage for all our personal data max. Not counting code repositories of course. :)
