G Suite legacy free edition retirement - What to do

I've had a few of my domains pointed to G Suite since its inception.  During that beta period, it was free to try out and anyone who got in then has been able to stay free all this time.

Months ago I started getting notifications that looked like they were saying it would no longer be free and that I'd have to sign up and start being billed.  I didn't really want to pay for this for three domains since they're basically just toy domains, not really doing anything interesting or worthwhile.

I finally started researching my options and found this little tidbit buried in one of the G Suite legacy free edition support pages...

I used my account for personal use

...this handy little button.

For non-commercial use, you can still continue for free. You don't have access to any of the premium services, but all the core services (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Sites, etc) remain free.

Now I'm curious as to whether a regular account, not "legacy", could use this option to declare their account is just for personal use as well.  🤔

Linux Mint Olivia - 1 week later...

A follow up to my last post Linux Mint 15 Olivia - Observations...

The Good

Xorg/KDE

Xorg has been working beautifully. No memory leaks. No squirrelly issues in performance or attitude. I haven't even had to blow away my $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma* files even once!

Packaging

I think I finally started to make friends with the packaging system. The stock 'screen' package is left hamstrung with a MAXWIN value of 40. I can't live within the confines of only 40 so this was my catalyst for making this a priority and figuring out. I finally found some decent docs so that I could download the src-deb, extract, fix, compile, repackage, install. Not only that, but there was another package I needed to tweak and it was super easy to download the binary deb file, extract, fix, repackage, install.

The Bad

Seriously?

Also thanks to the Mint teams priorities, I quickly noticed that after fixing your default search engine in Firefox, the search autocomplete is broken.
If Aerobie Inc. paid Tesla Motors to replace the steering wheel in their vehicles with an Aerobie, do you think they should do it? After all, Tesla needs the money, so shouldn't they do it? Because it's such a great idea to have the primary means in which you steer your vehicle be a product that people used to have a little fun with a long time ago. Not only that, but let's make sure if people try to fix the mistake and switch to a real steering wheel, that it won't turn all the way.
#FAIL

Other missing package nits...

The curl package isn't installed by default. Seriously. No, I'm not kidding.
Less ridiculous exclusions that you can find in every other distro, no 'lynx' (which only old farts like me use anyway), 'pcregrep' and friends, 'mc' (again, an old fart utility) and 'whois' (ok, I work at an isp, obviously that would only be important to me).

Google Groups Advanced Search

It seems I'm not the only one who finds the removal of the google groups advanced search extremely annoying. Threads such as here abound...

The support page is broken and useless because Google's been rolling out interfaces faster than they can write documentation:  http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46036

Googling for the groups advanced search page turns up a lot of broken search pages (for example: http://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/) which have the search form, but yield no results of any kind for any searches.

So, in hopes of helping anyone else out who is looking for this feature, I found this working link buried in the cached version of one of the google groups pages:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&

 

When Google took over Deja many years back, they took on the responsibility of maintaining an archive of internet historical significance. It may not seem like much to some, but I love that you can go back and see the first emoticon discussion, or see some of the earliest successful open source, or early posts and discussions from true icons of technology.

Who knows how long that link will keep working before some UX "engineer" will see fit to burn it down completely.  After all, if we're too stupid to handle advanced searching, we're too stupid to care about some old boring old "forum" posts.