My non-dev use cases

Here are some of my use cases of a non-IT, non-developer Hermes user (I'm a broadcast video editor), maybe as an inspiration :)

Over the last two weeks, I have used Hermes Agent for

* tuning of my self-hosted stuff that would be almost impossible or incredibly labor-intensive for a non-IT guy - made a huge, real difference on a rather constrained hardware. For example, it fixed some annoyances with Nextcloud, like an inability to open NC office files locally in LibreOffice. I tried to fix this for weeks with folks on NC forums, to no avail.

Obviously I recommend having backups or snapshots for this.

\- turning off indexing on my old Synology that is useless for my use, and can't be disabled from GUI - much quieter now

* researching local iPhone repair shops for the cheapest original battery replacement * researching outdoor blinders for our flat * all sorts of tasks related to video editing * "find footage of XXX, prefer public domain, verify the legal status, save a markdown file with crediting info" * "take all text from this script in green and generate scratch voiceovers from it, save as WAV with incremental numbers and few words as filename" * "read this email with producer notes and convert it to timeline markers" * "for all used music tracks, create a table with labels, years of publication and catalog numbers for legal clearance"  * creating a Hermes instance on my server for my wife - my agent did all the work by itself (including adding an A name at DNS registrar and setting up a NPM guest for it), and everything works

All this stuff saved like a day of menial work over the last week alone - no exaggeration. And that's just getting started.

I haven't yet set up many cron loops as my needs are rather scattershot and one-off, but I'm sure I'll find out some later.

I'm using a combo of Deepseek 4 Flash and locally running GPT OSS 20b (via oMLX) for the easier stuff. Runs incredibly well.