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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As I've continued to research, explore, and experiment with assorted fascinating and useful tools and frameworks in the process of building my personal AgentOS/Agentic-AI Operating System, there are a few that once discovered, quickly change the game, or take the game to a whole new level. That happened last night with Tailscale, which is basically an encrypted mesh-network VPN, that puts all connected devices onto the same private local network, regardless of where they are in the world. I'd been hearing about Tailscale, and how userful it was in agentic-AI systems, so last night I decided to look into it, and to give it a try.
Once I figured out how to configure and start it correctly, I was blown away by the results of the test that I ran last night with it, to see what was possible with an out-of-the-box setup. I installed and set Tailscale in the Arch/Artix Linux installation currently running on my laptop, and on my Android phone, and once those two devices were connected to the Tailscale mesh network, I ran my first test using Terminus, an Android terminal ssh client, to ssh directly from my phone (that was operating on its own mobile network, not connected to wifi) into my laptop. That test, much to my immense surprise, worked on the first attempt.
Once I had successfully connected to my laptop from my phone, I ran a few more tests, just to see what I could do. First I logged in as root and ran the pacman -Syu command to update my system. That worked flawlessly. Next up was exiting the root session, to return to my regular user session, and then to connect to Hermes via a terminal session, which also worked without a problem (other than the default terminal screen on my phone being very small). I spent short while working with Hermes on my laptop from my phone, before finally making myself to go to sleep.
The potential uses for this type of distributed local network is seriously mind-blowing, and I'm just barely scratching the surface of what's possible to implement and do with Tailscale. I'm in the middle of the process now of figuring out how to correctly install and set up Tailscale on my ASUS RT-AC5300 router, which would allow me to connect to it from anywhere, just like I can now do with my laptop.
The motivating impetus or nudge to look more closely into Tailscale yesterday came from Avi, a coder friend who lives here at GaiaYoga, because he was interested in somehow being able to connect to my computer from his, to experiment with using Hermes Agent. I still have to figure out how exactly to set up the proper access controls to make that safely possible, but I can see clearly that it is. I'm just going to say that mesh technology is badass, and a mesh VPN is by far the most amazing iteration of a VPN that I've ever used. I can't wait to explore what else I can do.
Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and working with Hermes, by around 2:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to a few small jungle-community tasks. With those completed, and afte a quick break up at the Flow House, I went to chop and dump bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to tidy up the area a bit, to harvest a rack of ripe bananas near the Peanut Lawn, and to move several wheelbarrow loads of lava rocks from the side of a trail to a spot adjacent to the Landing, to be used for a new foundation. Once I had those done, I made myself some food in Wabisabi, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I headed back to the Flow House, to work a bit more with Hermes, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just about 1030PM, and after installing and setting up Tailscale, and working with a Hermes from my phone on computer for a bit, I went to sleep by around 12:30AM. I woke up by just after 8AM, having slept fairly well, exploring more of Tailscale's possibilities, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to finally write and publish my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update, and to begin on this post. It's now just before 2PM, 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 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 my BPUD post tomorrow morning, and the next edition 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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