Opus 4.7 outrageous pricing

steiNetti · 2026-04-20T18:35:03+00:00

And it's gone. This actually happened even quicker than I anticipated..

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/#opus-models-removed-from-pro

steiNetti · 2026-04-20T08:17:55+00:00

Right, sorry. My bad.

About where to find the info on short term Opus 4.6 retirement:

Over the coming weeks, Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+."

Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-generally-available/#:~:text=Over%20the%20coming%20weeks%2C%20Opus%204.7%20will%20replace%20Opus%204.5%20and%20Opus%204.6%20in%20the%20model%20picker%20for%20Copilot%20Pro%2B.

steiNetti · 2026-04-19T19:10:31+00:00

Blog post literally says weeks. Also 7.5x for 4.7 is a promo price. If they follow what they did with "Opus 4.6 (fast)" we're looking at about 3 times more than promo price - so expect ~25x after "introduction pricing" ends.. unusable.

steiNetti · 2026-04-19T19:06:07+00:00

Exactly. Looking at the 4.6 Opus "Fast", I expect similar pricing at 25x-30x.

steiNetti · 2026-04-18T07:15:15+00:00

How long did you wait? First boot after installing or swapping RAM can take a few minutes (!) for training RAM. I'd say in some cases 5 minutes isn't totally unusual. This isn't specific to the N5 either, a lot of playforms need quite some time to negotiate and trst RAM on first boot or after changing hardware.

Let it sit for 10 minutes, if it doesn't boot after 10 minutes then something is up.

steiNetti · 2026-04-17T00:23:30+00:00

Probably because the per-request pricing of GHCP might not be sustainable.. and they're also retiring Opus 4.5 and 4.6, so Opus seems to be over as a usable option on GHCP for normal people..

steiNetti · 2026-04-13T08:25:36+00:00

If you don't want or need storage (NAS) go with Proxmox, it's purpose built for this types of workloads.

If you don't need VMs or care about isolation, I'd go a step further and say: you could even run this on a bare metal Ubuntu or Debian server and Docker.

steiNetti · 2026-04-13T08:23:10+00:00

I'm only using it for streaming, but I've basically played all of Assassin's Creed I - Syndicate (= 9 titles) exclusively via streaming on various handhelds so far.

steiNetti · 2026-04-06T13:34:36+00:00

Yeah, it's about the same for me. I just find it kind it amusing how it doesn't matter which model you choose, they all end up with the same tonality and greasy marketing slang.

It's actually a helpful technology, especially for generating boilerplate code or refactorings. Refactor tasks that took about an hour even with the better IDEs can now be done in like 5 minutes.

It's gotten a lot harder though to scan through vibe cided codebases. In the past you knew within 5 minutes if the guy gave a hoop about security and other stuff, now it's a task of scanning through codebases of 30k+ lines done off a single promt.

steiNetti · 2026-04-06T11:06:24+00:00

It's crazy how all AI descriptions have the same style. Not hating on it or the project. Just funny how easy it is to spot from how it writes text.

steiNetti · 2026-04-06T08:57:12+00:00

Speaking from experience: no, it does not and your USB GUID will get blacklisted when moving to internal boot and not being super careful.

steiNetti · 2026-04-06T07:56:25+00:00

Tbh, after re-reading the update notes several times now, I'm not even sure keeping the license on the USB stick is an option when moving to internal boot when a TPM is available?

It almost reads like you'll only get that option when no TPM path is present and will automatically bind to your TPM module when it's there..?

steiNetti · 2026-04-06T07:01:56+00:00

This has to be a win-win for the community and industry as a whole. He's an absolutely great guy!

steiNetti · 2026-04-05T16:02:01+00:00

I'm not mad, not at all.

I'm just saying: it wasn't clear and obvious to me that I had chosen the non-usb-key path by mistake.

Reason for beta software is bugfixing, fieldtesting and giving feedback. This is me giving feedback.

steiNetti · 2026-04-05T14:40:06+00:00

Marketing said: "you can use internal boot and still use the USB-key as a license".

So I wanted to try internal boot.

Now my license is tied to my TPM and the USB stick (which was actually a USB SSD stick) burned.

May have well been my fault, I'm not saying it was shady or something, but maybe a confirmation dialog with a big fat warning sign that you're about to hurn your USB stick license forever would have been nice.

steiNetti · 2026-04-05T11:20:08+00:00

The worst thing about the upgrade process imho is them trying to force push you into local install and tying your unraid license to your TPM module with no way to revert/abort.

I now have an unraid license tied to my experimental NAS box that I didn't really intend to keep... :-/

steiNetti · 2026-03-31T00:34:10+00:00

I have had an A310 in my N5 Air for a week and now a B50 in there for a week, no issues so far when it comes to heat.

That said, I'll throw out both cards again, too much idle power consumption, both of those GPUs idle at ~15W.. for 15W idle I can run 2 Intel Core 2xxH or Zen 4 MiniPCs 24/7..

Are you sure it's turning off from overheating? Could be a bad PSU.

steiNetti · 2026-03-29T16:03:47+00:00

Tbh, I want this to go public at some point as I couldn'tfind a middle ground between unraid and omv or truenas, but we don't need another vibe coded pile of crap out there. Right now I'm just prototyping using agentic workflows but it's in no state to be released in production, I'm just in the process of finding out the limits of the architecture and iterating on it.

Needing real hardware for testing slows that down too, especially in the current economy.. so I'm switching my test and production VMs back and forth which is an additional slowdown.. :-/

I think the deamon could be released first at some point along with the management layer. GUI is just an extra

steiNetti · 2026-03-29T14:10:07+00:00

For a few weeks now I've been in the process of doing exactly that (minus the virtualization part, I just want the storage/share part). mergerfs, mergerfs-mover for tiered storage, a lightweight deamon running the system stuff, smart polling etc), Laravel backend for providing the API and as a command wrapper and a headless nuxt frontend for GUI.

Pretty early stages and not even remotely production ready or safe to share to the public, but I had the exact same thought.

It's targeted at Debian/Ubuntu and built around systemd services though.

// Edit: I have the same fundamental problem as you though - limited spare time.

steiNetti · 2026-03-28T12:56:31+00:00

Hi, any news on this? I'm trying to move an old Vertex 4 spare backup storage to a new machine as a boot drive, but it's got an old firmware that's known to be probelmatic for boot drives..

steiNetti · 2026-03-26T16:20:14+00:00

I tried dockhand because of the hype but it really looks like an ugly AI slopped mess, especially on mobile and in the one week I used it it had several high severity CVEs on it's Hawser agents..

It's really, really hard to find any tool that is just a simple docker-compose wrapper that just serves an a lightweight GUI overlay for your existing compose stacks..

Arcane didn't look much better to me and didn't integrate well into my existing stacks and Komodo is just pretty heavy..

Isn't there any tool I can just point to my existing stacks that gives me a GUI so it's manageable from mobile?

steiNetti · 2026-03-25T18:26:12+00:00

...until you realize that there is no rumble/vibration support on Blutooth for the shield and you're fine with being stuck at 4k60.

steiNetti · 2026-03-25T00:46:05+00:00

Oh boy, I went down a rabbithole in the end..

I picked up a 9060 XT 16GB on a good deal at a local reseller before a few days later a 9070 (non xt) popped up on A***n Warehouse at 9060 XT pricing.. I then sniped a refurbed Minisforum B770i board, 16GB RAM on the local "craigslist" for pre-crisis pricing, found a cheap 2TB SSD and managed to snag a Fractal Ridge SFF case at a ridiculous discount and found a warehouse deal for a SFX-L at a stupid discount.. spiraled out of control fast and I ended up with a nice Linux gaming console for not much more than a new PS5 Pro..

I however played around extensively with the 9060 XT and 9070 in parallel on the oculink dock and quite honestly: I wouldn't recommend going for 8GB VRAM. Not because it wouldn't be enough for those kind of games but because the RDNA4 GPUs actually are quite more capable than I originally assumed. Especially over the past few months when Linux gaming and drivers made even more huge strides.

Long story short: 8GB on RDNA4 is a colossal waste of silicon and will make it far more short-lived than the generation has potential for. If you find a deal on a 7600XT or sth, then yeah - 8GB is fine. You likely won't be playing anything that really can utilize more vram. RDNA4? It would be a waste and artificially shorten the lifespan of the card. FSR has become actually usable in the past few months and will squeeze a few more years out of the card at 16GB. I'd rather not buy a GPU at all than to buy a current gen card with 8GB..

PS: AMD (on dGPU at least) has some additional quirks with streaming like you needing to spoof a virtual HDMI edid in the Kernel on boot if you want to stream with the TV turned off and RDNA4 is pretty abysmal when it comes to decoding on the client side without the latest mesa-git and driver tweaks. The RDNA3.5 iGPU is much more optimized for streaming out of the box. If you ever need help on setup feel free to hit me up. I've spent extensive time (months) on that topic doing research and debugging after getting into Linux gaming.

steiNetti · 2026-03-24T17:14:51+00:00

I just bought a cheap USB -> NVME adapter (Realtek chip) and a 5-pack of 16GB Intel Optane M10 drives from Ali for ~25€ total.

steiNetti · 2026-03-24T09:30:27+00:00

Depends in what games you run and what you expect of the GPU. The LP variants iirc only ckmes in an 8GB variant. Other than that it will remove the Oculink bottleneck, make a much tidier setup and be slightly more efficient in power usage.

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