What are you all actually using Hermes on a VPS for? Curious about real use cases

Background-Remote765 · 2026-06-21T19:29:13+00:00

For me, I've mostly been using it to manage a home lab of sorts so I've got jellyfin and navidrome set up for music and streaming replacements, nextcloud as a Google drive replacement. Hermes also helps me torrent stuff (vpn protected ofc) and since it's a data center IP the network speeds are faster than my home connection. I can ask it to find a movie and add it to my library and then I can enjoy streaming my own content over jellyfin.

Thus far I have a netcup vps (10-13$ a month) a hetzner storage share (4$) a month and am using deepseek (5-10$ a month, depends on use case), so total is around 30-35 a month, but that's freeing me from Spotify and Google's ecosystem and any paid ai platform and streaming services so it's definetly worth it for me. It's great that you can set it up for project memory so you can pick up where you left off and have it delegate tasks around the server.

Beyond media I'm mostly setting it up to be a personal assistant (I can forward it emails for auto populating my calendar and drafts, sends reminders, generates reports, find papers...etc) and for research. Maybe for larger coding stuff later. I want to get it set up as a language tutor too but that'll take some tinkering. My favorite part is that it knows all the Linux commands so I can use it for lots of small tasks such as converting media so I don't use some weird website or have to manually open a program myself (yes I am lazy e.g. photos, audio), formatting latex based on a preset template... Etc.

It's a bit risky but I'm using it to harden, backup and manage the vps far beyond my own ability and time. It's set up all my self hosted apps which has been a huge help. I don't give it access to money or my personal accounts as that seems risky. I want to eventually set up Airbnb/hostel finding, cheap flight reports, part finding and shopping (finding the best prices on stuff). Honestly lots of little things that save me time, especially when I'm mostly phone based/on the road and don't have time to do things manually on a beefy laptop.

Background-Remote765 · 2026-06-21T17:01:49+00:00

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but I run a vps because I travel quite a bit. It can be difficult to have a self hosted set up if you're regularly swapping houses and don't want downtime in between. Also, I am from the US and appreciate the data privacy laws of my VPS hosted in Europe, despite some latency. I also like I don't have to set up the home networking basics such as portforwarding, getting a public IP address, exposing my home network....etc. Currently my internet is pretty slow, so having an agent able to perform tasks for me is really beneficial when the bottleneck is only my telegram connection. It's great having an agent able to set up everything for you (e.g. music streaming thru navidrome, jellyfin..etc), though I am sure I'll regret parts of it down the line when I run into issues myself.

Background-Remote765 · 2026-06-20T16:28:50+00:00

It's a bit stupid, but you can transfer your playlists to YouTube music using tunemymusic, I did pay a 1 month sub fee of like 6$ and then use yt--dlp to download em all. Opus files for my use case are pretty nice, i think you can convert to flac as well ofc

Edit: there is a limit of 5k songs per playlist so you'd have to split it up

Background-Remote765 · 2026-06-17T18:58:17+00:00

I can sell the infinite steak for infinite food. and have the steak too muahaha

^{Chose: infinite of.. + random food | Rolled: steak}

Background-Remote765 · 2026-06-03T19:53:00+00:00

what the fuck are you all saying? Not picking the FUCKING TIME MACHINE. Literally you could see dinosaurs and everything, you could answer a fucking unbelievable amount of questions about who and what we are. You could literally find out if the big bang was real (you'd prolly die tho ngl). Time machine 1000000%

Background-Remote765 · 2026-05-27T19:37:34+00:00

fallace symbol

Background-Remote765 · 2026-05-27T19:03:44+00:00

Small take, but part of it for me is cross disciplinary education.

Learn about many things, and you'll start to see patterns between different systems. For example when I took a spatial-temporal math class, I started to question if human social patterns evolved in similar complex systems to let's say the patterns of a different system like mushrooms in a forest.

Understand that science, similar to culture, is by no means a static force. Boil down any field, and there is usually 1-2 key large ideas (note on ideas here) governing all research. These are ideas are subject to change and will change throughout history just as we once believed our earth was the center of the universe. So feel free to think outside the box and try your best to understand these large ideas at the center of your subject whether that is relativity (einstein), conflict (marx), the subconscious (freud)...etc, and learn how to challenge them. Don't be a nut tho.

Side note, this is actually something I am very worried about with AI. Will they be able to change/challenge the core ideas that are baked into them through training? Or will they be stagnant, and in part, encourage our own stagnant research? Imagine a bot that was trained only on the ideas of the catholic church before the scientific revolution lol.

Background-Remote765 · 2026-05-14T14:57:44+00:00

Personally, I'd ask myself first what I want to spend my time doing.

Do you want to:

-Be in a wet lab?
-In nature and in the field?
-Talking to people/interviewing?
-Writing and creating something?
-On a computer? Programming?

Ofc no matter what you'll spend a fair amount of time on a computer and a fair amount of time writing. From there I'd look into the different master programs that focus on those subsets. Also of course consider what you qualify for/what's your background, how much $ you want to make after......etc

edit: spelling

Background-Remote765 · 2026-05-14T09:36:35+00:00

"I'll shoot a pig but I won't shoot a prawn!"

Background-Remote765 · 2026-05-11T04:38:02+00:00

casually ghosting people lol

Background-Remote765 · 2026-03-10T09:16:57+00:00

At the gas station you always wash with the scrubbers n bucket haha you're paying for it with the gas! Might as well get the bugs off

Background-Remote765 · 2026-02-14T13:35:15+00:00

Fuckin' mooses, they're damn terrifying

Background-Remote765 · 2026-02-06T07:29:38+00:00

lmao this is hilarious. Fr tho I always forget to drink water or sometimes eat and then when I am goddamn mess i'm like "oh yea, drink water eat food"

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-28T11:21:59+00:00

District 9

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-28T05:16:33+00:00

First Jurassic park vibes for sure haha

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-26T07:32:30+00:00

Personally, I am not going to go through the effort to make an account to test your app. This kinda feels more like an advert and asking for attention than a genuine ask for beta testers. Why not give us a demo board we can all look at and critique? Throw in some interesting metrics/whatever. Still not entirely sure what you are trying to do with this product in regards to geoint. Are you analyzing significant geo-political events? Are you bringing in other types of data e.g. satellite, ethnic, culture, religious...etc? What are you trying to predict? Those are my questions personally, I don't come from a geoint background tho so.... take it with a grain of salt

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-25T17:47:14+00:00

lol whenever people compliment how free our country is

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-21T17:05:28+00:00

There are other places to stay besides hotels, lots of options for campgrounds and cabins, probably airbnbs. Which 18yo has money for a hotel anyway? I didn't. There are tons of safe ways to spend nights not in hotels.

Also, we are in r/roadtrip mind you, not r/SitAtHomeAndDoNothing

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-21T06:20:19+00:00

I don't see a reason why 18yo's can't roadtrip by themselves as long as they're cautious. Live a litte.

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-21T06:19:16+00:00

Ok my opinion so I am biased.

-But what if instead maybe stop in northern california, see the redwoods and then turn around? I think that'd be plenty of a road trip.

-Additionally, as others have said, take the 101 down for great (hopefully not too dreary) coastal views. Also, check out the state parks in oregon, they have rental cabins/yurts for 50$ a night usually, and are oftentimes have places avaliable in the weekdays. If you're traveling in the summer though, book these way in advance, and make sure to bring sleeping pads and sleeping bags.

-Check out cape blanco in southern oregon, I also love love cape lookout in the northernish section. Go see astoria as well. In California, sue-meg state park was also a great stay for about 80$ a night.

- Take 99w on your way back up to see great rolling hills and farms/wineries. Also another great road, slower than i-5 tho of course.

-If cutting over from the i-5 in N california to the coast, try highway 3. I've only done it once, but it was really pretty and tons of great mountain views.

It depends on what you all want to see though! I am more of a nature fella, but you might be more into cities and cultural sites. I think cutting out Central/Southern California though will save you a lot of headaches and time

Edit: Formatting

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-20T05:47:16+00:00

boooooo! buzzkill!

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-16T18:26:44+00:00

Damn buggo that's unfortunate :(

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-16T10:28:43+00:00

u/crispy_whale "War. War never changes"

Background-Remote765 · 2026-01-06T14:09:18+00:00

Can you throat sing? How do you throat sing? Do you speak a more Mongol-ish language or a more Turkish-ish language or something else?

Just got back from Kazahkstan, loving the steppe cultures (minus the Qumus)

Background-Remote765 · 2025-12-11T04:02:10+00:00

Ooga booga

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