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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai's lack of "visionary leadership."

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[–] silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went to modify my 2018 Google Wi-Fi router to add a simple port forwarding rule, and the functionality is completely GONE from their already shitty Google Home app. It used to be so easy and simple on the old Wi-Fi app. I’m never buying another Google device.

This company has reached enshittification nirvana.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google home has become an absolute shit show. It has awful UI and UX. Truly an amazing feat.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse is that they can’t even do things like set timers anymore.

[–] silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah how tf do you become feature poorer (even with the basics) as your product matures and you spend billions acquiring your competition? Oh yeah…let me click on the original news article on this post for the answer.

[–] iawia@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still there for me in "Advanced networking"->"Port Management".

[–] silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you click into mine, all you see are two options both of which only serve to allow Google to Hoover more of your data.

Looking into this more a couple days ago, it seemed that without IP reservations, you can’t get the port forwarding option to appear. Which I haven’t messed with. On principal I refuse to deal with a router that has regressed in functionality and am instead dedicating my time to de-Google my life haha. I bought an openwrt compatible router this weekend. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/900cfd9b-ad9c-4a1c-8a41-5ce580c9b353.pnghttps://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/655586bb-2e04-42a6-97f5-75df79fb1915.png

[–] iawia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do have a bunch of IP reservations. I don't really know how you'd do port forwarding without subs static IP address to forward to. I have not seen any of the data sharing options, but it could be that I gave those permissions years ago and forgot...

[–] silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IIRC the Google Wi-Fi app had some extremely simple selection process in the port forwarding that allowed you to review the device list with IPs and select for port forwarding. The app would then carry the pf rule regardless of DHCP. Seems very simple functionality that now requires multiple steps to achieve. I’m sure in the product management meetings they assumed the new Nest users were too dumb to handle such logic or just overlooked the functionality in general to speed the migration from Google Wi-Fi to Google Home. Seems like a great mini case study for poor product management.

[–] iawia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, you're right. It does work with dynamic addresses.

It works like this for me, currently:

First step, port management, click plus

Then select the device

And setup the ports

[–] silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, maybe it’s the fact I’m running iOS, I can’t get any type of rule or DHCP assignment options to show up. Just the same two options for telemetry and Nest. Oh well, thanks for the help. I’m getting my new router Tuesday and should be off to the races!