I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1422 - The Next Stage of My Locally-Run Agentic-AI Journey Is about to Begin - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, June 10, 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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After my post yesterday, and a few waves more of deeper and more focused research, I'm now in the process of nailing down and finalizing the last few important details, in preparation to begin my first tests of running Qwen3.6 35B A3B on my gaming laptop (they always have the best specs) with 8GB of VRAM and 64GB of system RAM. This would normally be a foolhardy endeavor, given the size of the model, and my limited VRAM, but thanks to some brilliant quantization and optimization techniques, and the granular, fine-grained control possible with llama.cpp (and its forks) run flags, it's actually quite feasible, and it's been shown to work well on even more resource-constrained systems.

I decided on a version of Qwen3.6 35B A3B with a high-quality APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert models) quantization, and which has imatrix calibration specifically for Hermes Agent, so this does indeed seem like an excellent candidate for my first tests. I also narrowed down my testing to two forks of llama.cpp, ik_llama.cpp, and llama-cpp-turboquant, as my backend LLM server, to see which one offers the greater benefits for my particular system and setup.

Now I just have to choose the specific llama.cpp run flags and their values, based on everything that I've learned so far. Testing and refining these run flags will likely take several iterations, as I find the sweet spot for my system and my agentic-AI needs.

Since I'll be testing two different forks of llama.cpp, each with some of their own custom run flags, I'll actually need to put together two llama.cpp run commands to test, one for each, to accommodate their flag differences. I still have a little information synthesis to do on the flags to use, but I'm very, very close to being able to begin my first rounds of testing.

With everything else that I do on my laptop, such as running a Qortal node, I'm definitely going to be pushing the limits of what's possible on this system with this new and very experimental stage of my agentic-AI journey, though I believe that I now know enough to make it work. Fingers crossed on that.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by about 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session went well, and we wrapped it up by just about 5PM, after which I made myself some food in Wabisabi, collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to do a bit more agentic-AI research, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by a little before 10PM, and after more AI research, I went to bed, quite early, by a bit after 10:15PM. I woke up by about 7:30AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to do even more AI research, and to write this post. It's now just after 1:30PM, so its a really good tike 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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