I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1410 - Testing Llama.cpp Build and Run Flags, Mixed Results, and Return to LLM Studio (for now) - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, May 29, 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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My deep dive into locally-run FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) AI models, and the Hermes Agent agentic-AI framework, has been both truly amazing, and quite frustrating, with a mixed bag of successes, failure, advancements, and setbacks. For the past few days I've been testing an assortment of build and run flags for llama.cpp, which I'm trying to get working reliably as my backend LLM server, and it's been a bit more challenging than I had hoped. I may have to return to using LLM Studio as the backend LLM server once again, until I'm able to find the proper build and run flags for llama.cpp with my particular setup, because even with its issues, it was quite a bit more stable and reliable.

It's still quite wild to me how quickly and how deeply that I've become invoked in this agentic-AI endeavor. Even just two months ago, I would never have imagined me becoming so fascinated by it, and so passionate about it. It's utterly astonishing.

Although my computer is a pretty beefy gaming laptop, it still has a strong constraint of only 8GB of VRAM (Video RAM), which is pretty much the bare minimum for running models locally. There are ways to make it work, but they require a little techy magic and resource juggling. I'm looking a lot more closely at all the specifics now, to see exactly what's necessary.

Time is always a bugger for me, so finding the time to continue researching and testing is not so easy. I've been doing it in short bursts, in moments of somewhat less-occupied time. Balancing that with Hive, my jungle-community tasks, and everything else that I have to accommodate, is indeed challenging to the max.

Even though LM Studio is more resource intensive, because it has more overhead, it's a fair bit easier, more stable, and more reliable for me than using straight llama.cpp, at least until I'm able to master llama.cpp's build and run flags. While I am getting closer to being able to run stable Hermes sessions with llama.cpp, and I will keep testing, for the moment at least, I need to return to the greater functional stability or LM Studio.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started slightly late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up by a bit after 6PM, after which I went to Wabisabi to make myself some food, and to collect my superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done my a little after 10PM, and after some a llama.cpp research and testing, I went to bed by around 12:15AM. I woke up about 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed a bit more sleep, doing more llama.cpp research, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to do more research, and to write 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 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 jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration 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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