You might like 'git commit --allow-empty' to make your somewhat-useless commits.

But honestly, doesn't github now have a button you can press to retrigger actions without a commit?

GitHub Actions are least hassle, when you don't care about how much compute time you are burning through. Either because you are using the free-for-open-source repositories version, or because your company doesn't care about the cost.

If you care about the compute time you are burning, then you can configure them enough to help with that, but it quickly becomes a major hassle.