I have put together an internal benchmark on 1000s of business documents with weird tables, structure, etc. that I run on every relevant model release. Opus 4.8 performs very very well. But it is obviously overkill for the task (and expensive at doing so). I just wanted to respond to the OP.
> (I originally was going to say a computer that plays chess, but computers play chess with no intuition or instinct--they just search a gigantic solution space very quickly.)
Isn't that how LLM models are trained right now? Trying to predict the next word within a "gigantic solution space". Interesting.
In Germany we have several accounting software solutions like that for 5-10+ years that integrate with bank accounts, paypal, etc. - automatically suggests booking accounts and exports it via a REST API to the software accountants use. Accountants have access to it. Is this basically the same as your solution?
Well, we have to "register" every new IP or new mail server with them as well. It's annoying and a weird system, but they respond quickly and it's just one todo we have to think about.
What I am missing with Gnome is the global menu I have with macOS. It's just my preferred way of working. This is also what I liked about Unity. Gnome seems to follow the same direction as Windows.
Additionally miller columns in Finder are just awesome and I don't have them with Nautilus. Those two things are honestly dealbreakers for me.
GitLab is very very heavy with a lot of bloat and sadly still a bad UI/UX. I prefer Gitea for its simplicity. Gitea Actions are similar to Github Actions and they work great.
The problem with ONCE is that software is never finished. This is why most ONCE software that is still available today is charging a one off licensing fee + update fee (e.g. charge yearly for major updates or 10% of the one off fee per year). This is sustainable, but your model isn't. You will notice down the road in 2-4 years that it's no fun to work for free for users that expect an update because it requires patching or there are breaking changes.
What people forget about the OVH or Hetzner comparison is that for those entry servers they are known for, think the Advance line with OVH or AX with Hetzner. Those boxes come with some drawbacks.
The OVH Advance line for example comes without ECC memory, in a server, that might host databases. It's a disaster waiting to happen. There is no option to add ECC memory with the Advance line, so you have to use Scale or High Grade servers, which are far from "affordable".
Hetzner per default comes with a single PSU, a single uplink. Yes, if nothing happens this is probably fine, but if you need a reliable private network or 10G this will cost extra.
The most annoying thing for me currently is that when connecting to local smb shares with Finder and adding favorites (directories on shares), after a reboot they are still there under favorites, but it won't connect to them when clicking on them. So I have to manually reconnect to the server every time. This wasn't happening before.
Other than that, of course some things got slower, but overall it's an OK release. For example he new system settings were bad before, now they got a bit worse, but macOS 26 didn't introduce those changes.
They changed their license to AGPL, removed features (Web UI, etc.) and now they don't provide docker images/binaries. It's their project but; what's next?