I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1505 - 35.6k Surpassed, and Refining My Model-Fallback Ladder in Hermes - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, September 1, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As expected, I blew past 35,600 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, and I may just get to 35,700 Hive Power before the end of the week. 36,000 Hive Power is approaching quickly, and it will arrive probably by the middle of September. I'm constantly surprised by how quickly my HP is growing, and it keeps growing faster all the time.

Since I first gave using my Hermes Agent with free inference providers a try with Ox Alpha/GLM5.3-Flash a few weeks ago, I've gotten first-hand experience with just how much can be accomplished within very short periods of time by using more-capable models. Since that time, I've continued to experiment with and test various other free providers and their hosted models, with varying success.

The main issue with inference providers that provide free tiers is that the models in those free tiers usually have pretty restrictive rate limits. Thankfully, Hermes has a way to create a chain of fallback providers and models, so if the model that I choose fails for some reason, it automatically falls back to the next choice, and then the next if that one fails. I currently have a 7-level fallback ladder, which has made working with free providers and models in Hermes flow so much better.

I found a few more inference providers that offer free, and even keyless service, though anonymous/keyless usage has more restrictive rate limits than when using a key. Because of that research, experimentation, and testing last night (when I should have been sleeping), I now have access to GLM5.3-Flash once again for free, which is pretty much my favorite model to date, as it's just so bloody good!

I'm still experimenting, testing, tweaking, and refining my model-fallback ladder, adding the most-capable available models, like GLM5.3-Flash and Kimi-K3, at the top, with other dependable providers and models like Nemotron-3-Ultra, Hy3, and Laguna-s-2.1 on OpenCode further down on the list. OpenCode is still the most-reliable keyless and free provider to date, so when combined with other providers that are not as reliable, I have a quite a solid system, since I can distribute my usage across multiple providers. Give Hermes Agent a try, my friends, it's very well worth it!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 3PM, diving first into some photography for my posts. With that completed to my satisfaction, I got my machete and I went on a banana hunt around the property, in search of harvestable bananas (I found 5 racks, plus some papayas!), mostly in the rain. Once I wrapped that up, and given the weather, I made a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock Wabisabi, then I made myself some food, and I collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House, to work with Hermes some more, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by around 9:45PM, and after working a bit longer with Hermes, I went to bed by about 11:15PM. I woke up fairly late, after having gotten up on the middle of the night for a while, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to work with Hermes some more, and to write this post. It's now just before 12PM, so it's an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of these posts tomorrow! 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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