I’m a bit weary about posting this cos the last time I boasted about my Hermes Agent it crashed and it took me a week to get it back up. But I’m bursting and need to share. So I’ve got a MacStudio 36GB and I’m running Hermes Agent with gemma4:31b locally with ollama and now I’ve added qwen3-vl for ‘vision’ also locally on ollama. But what I’m most proud of is the Apple account for this computes is registered to my agent (used @npub1mea2...qane and

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for the sms - used Netherlands). I’ve then got GitHub via Apple ID, agent Mail, signal, and various things linked to my agent only. I’ve set up a skill where my agent upgrades to @Maple for complex things. I also used @PayPerQ to run Hermes using opus 4.8 which burned through money and didn’t achieve much. Gemma4 takes time but it gets it right. Much better than GLM-4.7 which I was running earlier. Now I just need to figure what to do with all this power. Done. Feeling better. Thanks for listening.

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This one’s a bit cynical but that doesn’t prevent it from being true; Susan discussing with DEATH. "All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need…fantasies to make life bearable. Really? As if it was some kind of pink pill?” “NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.” "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" “YES. AS PRACTICE, YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.” "So we can believe the big ones?" “YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.” - Sir Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather

So I’ve been using Hermes Agent for a while now. I run it on a Mac Studio 36 GB with local glm-4.7-flash:latest. Not bad a bit slow. Today I used Claude opus 4.8. It was faster for sure but it burned through $7 worth of tokens and didn’t achieve what I wanted. I’m back to glm and frankly I’m happier. Local models with @Maple or @PayPerQ back up is the way to go. Completely free with high powered backup.

Here’s Sir Terry Pratchett talking about bitcoin again. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." — Terry Pratchett, Mort

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Sir Terry Pratchett talking about about bitcoin. Trust me bro. "The thing about the impossible is that it’s always happening. It just happens to people who don’t know it’s impossible. And that’s the only way things ever change. Not by people who believe in the impossible, but by people who are too stubborn to believe that it’s impossible." — Night Watch