--- title: Turn Your Mac Mini M4 Into a Personal AI Assistant —... description: A walkthrough of using a Mac Mini M4 as an always-on personal AI server in two ways: running a Hermes agent connected via Telegram for task automation and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/turn-your-mac-mini-m4-into-a-personal-ai-assistant-hermes-agent-24-7-private-chatgpt-k4g5f2omf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Turn Your Mac Mini M4 Into a Personal AI Assistant — Hermes Agent + 24/7 Private ChatGPT | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of using a Mac Mini M4 as an always-on personal AI server in two ways: running a Hermes agent connected via Telegram for task automation and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/turn-your-mac-mini-m4-into-a-personal-ai-assistant-hermes-agent-24-7-private-chatgpt-k4g5f2omf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/k4G5f2OmF.png og:image:alt: Turn Your Mac Mini M4 Into a Personal AI Assistant — Hermes Agent + 24/7 Private ChatGPT og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Turn Your Mac Mini M4 Into a Personal AI Assistant — Hermes Agent + 24/7 Private ChatGPT **[Execute Automation](https://daily.dev/sources/executeautomation)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of using a Mac Mini M4 as an always-on personal AI server in two ways: running a Hermes agent connected via Telegram for task automation and scheduled operations using a local Qwen 3.5B model through Ollama, and using LM Studio's phone link feature to run local LLMs (Qwen 2.5 Coder, Gemma 4B) as a private offline ChatGPT alternative accessible from an iPhone. The setup allows remote control from any device without internet dependency, with the trade-off of slower inference compared to cloud models on the 16GB RAM machine. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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