Setting up Hermes Agent with OmniRoute, Ollama Cloud, and Parch on an old PC

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A developer repurposed an old four-core Phenom II machine with 8 GB of RAM into a home AI workstation running Parch with XFCE. They used OmniRoute as a gateway to manage multiple AI providers, including proxy support and free model access. Web-cookie connections to Claude and DeepSeek were tried, but Claude risked account bans and DeepSeek failed on code-related tool calls. Ollama Cloud, connected via API key, ended up being the provider that made the agent work reliably, using the Gemma 31B model as the main model.

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