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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I've had a notable amount of successes, failures, frustrations, and triumphs in the 27 days that I've been working with the Hermes Agent agentic-AI framework, with most of the issues that I've experienced having to do with the limitations of my laptop's hardware, namely the 8GM of VRAM on my Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. Up until last night I was using LM Studio (via their AppImage) as the backend LLM server, and while it has generally worked fairly well overall, it also had some major problems related to resource exhaustion and my GPU.
With LM Studio as the backend LLM server, if the GPU resources were exceeded and the LLM server crashed, the only way to re-enable GPU offloading was to reboot my laptop. When it didn't happen that often, it wasn't so much of an issue, but lately the crashes have become more frequent. This finally made me dive into exploring other potentially better local LLM servers, which in the end brought me directly to llama.cpp, which it just so happens is the backend infrastructure for LM Studio, but with much less overhead, and much more fine-tuned control possible.
So last night I cloned the llama.cpp GitHub repository, built llama.cpp from source, and gave it a go. My first few tries were dismal failures, but with the assistance from the Grok (on X), I was able to finally get llama.cpp working correctly, for a short time at least. I went through several rounds of troubleshooting errors with Grok, and recompiling and running new llama.cpp builds using different build and run flags, and each round got me closer to a fully stable Hermes session, but in the end the server would still always crash. The main issue seems to be how the default implementation of recent llama.cpp versions interact with my GPU.
So while I did have some good successes and advancement last night, at the moment I'm basically at the point of needing to do some more thorough research into which llama.cpp build and run flags would be best for me to use for my particular hardware quirks and constraints. This of course requires a bit of time, which I'll do my best to allocate later this evening. Even though my initial experiences using llama.cpp have been a bit bumpy, there are also some excellent reasons to use it. The one that jumps out first is that when llama.cpp crashes, I don't need to reboot my laptop to re-enable GPU offloading, which saves good amount of time. I also noticed that it uses quite a bit less GPU memory, which with only 8GM of VRAM is a very good thing indeed. It also gives me much more granular control over how it works and how it serves LLMs, and although there is definitely a learning curve regarding the proper build and run flags, it does indeed seem to be notably better than LM Studio for my particular system.
On a somewhat different topic, and more Hive-focused, I've been debating with myself for days now whether or not I should accept large HP leases via Hive Engine. Right now I'm at a little under 50% of my HP delegated, both from direct delegations to various accounts, and via HP leases to @centtoken, which is a really good ratio, and one that I'm not keep on disrupting. My daily SWAP.HIVE income is not currently sufficient to make daily asset management worthwhile, however, so it does very much require a strong boost. If I do accept a larger HP lease, it would be in the range of 2,500-5,000 HP delegated. This would decimate my vote value of course, which is not at all what I want, but given how low my vote value is anyway with the current abysmal fiat-price of HIVE, I'm not sure that it would make all that much difference in practical terms. I'm not making any quick or rash decisions. I'm just letting the idea percolate for a while, to see if a clear path coalesces and becomes visible.
Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 3PM again, giving my attention first to making a spiced-and-seasoned version of my special popcorn in Wabisabi, and to some photography for my posts. When those were wrapped up, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, after which I went to help Melekai plant some seedlings of the tropical blue Nile water lilly, and some seeds of blue lotus, for her new pond. That was very interesting and fun for me, and it's something that I need to do much more frequently. Working with plants is very important to me. After Melekai and I got that fun job done, 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, and to experiment with using llama.cpp. I got through all of my Hive notifications by just about 10PM, and after some more llama.cpp building-testing-rebuilding-testing cycles, I went to bed by around 12:15AM. I woke up around 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed a bit more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to do another round of llama.cpp building and testing, and to write this post. It's now just before 12:15PM, 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 manifestation 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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