A few months ago I’ve tried to up to Kagi, a subscription-based search engine, that I heard a lot of good stuff of. Since I was in a country where their payment system didn’t work yet, I couldn’t actually complete the signup. They’ve generously given a Starter plan me for free while their system was being sorted out (nice, thank you!), however that plan comes with a “300 search per month” limit — which I’ve quickly seen to really matter.
It was around a time when I had a new laptop, and been trying to get things right installing ArchLinux, where both the processes and the hardware changed a lot since I’ve last had done it in… 2011-ish. So that involved many queries to the Internet. So much so, that my 300 searches were done on the 3rd day or so.
So 3 days into a month I already used up my quota, and couldn’t just upgrade to unlimited (yet), since it was a gift from the Kagi. So what could I do different in the future for a better experience?