We've been using GDrive in one form or another since 2014 when they released Google Drive for Work. Primary use case nowadays for my team is an old legacy tool(been in place since 2014) that connects to our ERP and other internal tools to generate reports and export data with combined metadata from multiple tools/sources. Then if needed, makes a copy to different share drives and teams, assigns access rights for internal and external users. We have custom web front ends that allow them to interact with these exports along with fat clients if they need to manipulate a larger dataset of files.
My last check had the service account that I'm responsible for somewhere around 8.7 Million files with an average size around 9.2MB.
We have multiple of these "accounts", with similar use-cases across other teams. This is excluding the normal use of Gdrive with normal "rank-and-file" office works managing standard office docs.
We've felt the squeeze from google over the past few years, so we've already started migrating off of google services about 2.5 years into a 4 year project.
Yeah this doesn't seem to be in line with the expected use or target market of Drive. It sounds like your tool is probably creating all the files acting as one service account, and therefore hitting the limit if it is indeed per user.
I think the rule of thumb I would use is that if you're creating the files in an automated way, and then accessing them outside of Drive interfaces, in all cases, then it's probably a better fit for a web app with cloud storage backend. Google Cloud Storage or S3 would work well for this.
Have you looked at cassette style mini-splits? Nothing on the wall's you'd just replace the vent in your ceiling. They are quite a bit larger than your standard vent though.
As far as remotes, there are a bunch of universal remote control options and smart (wifi/bluetooth) based controllers.
I was a paying kagi subscriber for about 5-6 months before canceling my subscription. Before that I participated in the beta, and was very excited in Kagi's mission. The service did provide better search results for me than google or bing, partly due to no ads and my ability to better filter out blog spam. I legitimately enjoyed using the service, but in the end could not rationalize paying $120 a year for search. That's more than I pay all in for email, VPN, online storage, password manager, etc.
I was really hoping they'd work on their own indexing and decreasing their costs. For simple, good, reliable, no advertising search I'd happily pay $5-7.50 for. I recently had a thought about re-subscribing when I got this email last night, and this pricing model is not appetizing at all. Not a fan of metering or search limits, I tried using their free plan but having to spend even a .25 of second to think if I want to use up 1 of my valuable search credits ruins the whole experience for me. In the 6 months since I unsubscribed their pricing has gone up and they are tacking on AI which they are just leveraging openai for?
