I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1466 - Slowly Getting Back into My Locally-Run Agentic-AI Endeavors - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, July 24, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

It's been a fair while now, over a month, since I took a break or hiatus from running and building with locally-run agentic AI, but after some significant new developments, and also learning a good bit more, I'm feeling called to ease my way back into this deeply fascinating endeavor. This morning I began updating various components, like downloading the Gemma 4 26B-A4B QAT with the updated chat template from Unsloth (I was already using the previous version), downloading the new Ternary-Bonsai 27B from Prism-Ml (and the llama-prism fork of llama.cpp to run it), updating llama.cpp, ik_llama.cpp, and llama-cpp-turboquant, and installing the new buun-llama-cpp.

Hermes Agent has also had quite a large number of significant updates since my hiatus began, and I'm really looking forward to exploring, and trying out, the numerous new features. The rate of development on Hermes Agent is truly incredible, in large part because it's a community effort, with over 1,000 people contributing to making it better, and that is happening exceedingly rapidly indeed.

Now I just have to rebuild the assorted llama.cpp forks, and create several run profiles for different models run via those various llama.cpp forks, with a few new and updated run flags. This part will take a bit more time, since it's very fine-tuned, focused work. With the new and updated run flags and their values, I get the feeling that my next round of testing will go a lot more smoothly.

On a slightly different topic, our HP delegation to @bradleyarrow continues to increase nicely, with it now at almost 108 HP delegated, and our daily HIVE income from this source now at 0.03 HIVE. The numbers are still modest, but they are rising quite quickly.

I have just about a week to go before I power up my sizeable chunk of HIVE on the August HPUD, which I'm very much looking forward to doing, especially considering that this will be my largest powerup to date, and by a large margin. My HP will be growing quite a bit more quickly after that point, likely by around 1,000 HP per month, which means that reaching orca level, even though it's still far off, is now coming into sight.

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2:30PM, in part due to rain, and partly because I was feeling a bit off, so I laid down on my bed for a short while. Since I wasn't feeling amazing, and the weather was not at all inspiring for photography, I skipped taking photos, though thankfully I still had enough for at least two days of posts. When I finally focused on work, I cleared along the side and the back of Tutu's, which was becoming heavily overgrown, with my machete. Once I had that done for the day, I took a shower, then I walked over to Braja's place to pick up a box of new ethernet cable that had arrived (which I'll use to set up more structures with internet access), and once I took that to Wabisabi (for the moment at least, until I find a place to store it), I made myself some food there, and I collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by a little before 9PM, and after scanning my X feed for a while, I went to bed by just before 11:15PM. I woke up just after 8AM, having slept well, going to restart the electrical system (it seems to have shorted out in the early morning), heading back to the Flow House to get the Qortal node on my laptop back online, going to Wabisabi to make my superfood fire coffee, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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