I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1374 - Huge Agentic-AI Success, and One Small Setback to Resolve - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, May 2, 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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Well, I finally did it! After 3 weeks of researching, exploring, experimenting, and testing, I was finally able to get an AI agent functioning in the Artix Linux installation presently in my laptop, and I did it with only two tools and frameworks. The first component was LM Studio, which is an excellent and full-featured dssktop application with installers for Linux, Windows, and MacOS, that makes it incredibly easy to search, download, and run hundreds of different AI models. It provides a very large number of options, both within the desktop application, and via background command-line services, so it's an excellent place to start.

The second component, which I found yesterday, the Hermes Agent, was the game changer, because not only was its setup in my Artix Linux system simple and easeful, but equally significantly, it worked immediately with LM Studio and the AI models that I had downloaded, and was running from it. When I first fired it up (after one small, quickly-corrected issue), and it actually loaded up and worked, that was a moment of absolute triumph. I first tried it with a model, Qwen3 Coder Next, which was an 80b (80 billion) parameter model, that I know now was too large for how I was trying to use it in terms of my system resources, and unfortunately that mostly-successful test ended with my system freezing due to running out of memory. I learned an important lesson from that. Once I got the context length sorted out, a more appropriate model was loaded, and LM Studio's background server up and running, Hermes connected to it and made use of it quickly, and my local AI Agent, much to my immense satisfaction, was functional and ready to go.

My second, and far more successful attempt, was using Google's Gemma-4-E4b, which is a much smaller 4-billion parameter model, and that was autodownloaded when I first started the LM Studio app, after it assessed my hardware capabilities. The challenge that caused my system to freeze with the last, much larger model, is that the Hermes Agent needs a minimum context length of 64,000, which represents how much text information that the model needs to keep in memory to operate, and with an 80-billion-parameter, it used up too of my Nvidia card's VRAM, thus making it neccessary to offload to RAM, which was then quickly exhausted. Very thankfully, that is not an issue with the Gemma model, even with a context length of 64,000.

I spent a fare amount of time working with it last night and this morning (before I broke it again...lol!), and holy jumping fuckmuffins am I impressed! One incredibly interesting and useful characteristic of Hermes is that it learns from its experience, it self-corrects and improves over time, and amazingly it can not only use a whole host of existing tools and skills, but it can also create new skills on the fly to meet a need, which it's done multiple times already. I spent a good bit of time last night having it expand and extend what it's able to do, which included adding several new skills. That's extraordinary to the max. Before I accidentally broke Hermes early this afternoon as I was experimenting with different ways to install LM Studio's lms command-line utility, I was working with the agent to continue with adding new useful skills, experimenting with certain supervised system-maintenance tasks, and cleaning up and setting up working Github repositories for future software development. It understands my larger, overarching goals for working with it, and step-by-step, it's working to make them happen.

Successfully bootstrapping the first fully-functional AI agent, Hermes, on my laptop, is exactly the foot-in-the-door that I've been seeking, because it now allows me to use it to build itself, its capabilities, and its own frameworks. Now I just have to find and resolve the issue that broke Hermes this early this afternoon. So since yesterday, I've had one gigantic success, and one notable, though small, annoying issue. Thankfully I've got Grok to assist me with that.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and the initial installation and setup for Hermes, quite late, by around 3:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to a few small jungle-community tasks. Once those were completed, and after a short break up at the Flow House, I got a shovel and an o-o bar to go dig another round of planting holes in the front orchard. With that completed for the day, I took a shower, heated myself up some leftover food in Wabisabi, and collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before finally heading back to the Flow House, to work with Hermes more, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. Hermes kept me so engaged that I didn't get to Hive until quite a bit later than usual, so I wasn't able to get through all of my notifications before I had stop by about 11:30PM, to do some asset management, fit in a bit more time working with Hermes, and then go to bed, way too late, by around 1AM (ouch). I woke up just before 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, working more with Hermes, going to make my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to work with Hermes some more, sadly breaking it, and finally beginning on this post. It's now just before 2PM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other important Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus on some photography for my posts, and then on a few small jungle-community tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my weekly goals-and-progress update tomorrow morning (hopefully), and the next iteration of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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