I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1499 - Setting Up and Testing a New Feature in Hermes Agent: Mixture of Agents - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Published on HivePostify by @tydynrain · Thu Aug 27 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](https://gaiayoga.org)), 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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Even without the recently-released and no-longer-free Ox Alpha/GLM5.3-Flash available any longer, I'm still making good progress in my work with Hermes, even though none of the other free models that I've tried are anywhere near as effective, efficient, and quick at the job as Ox Alpha/GLM5.3-Flash. I'm still looking for a comparable replacement.
I had an idea today to set up and test a recently-added feature in Hermes, Mixture of Agents, which basically uses multiple models together in such a way that it leverages the strengths, and compensates for the weaknesses, of each individual model. Doing this on a laptop with only one local model usable at a time, and only free plans for cloud-based models, is bit more challenging than using all local models or paid cloud plans, due to rate limits, though I'm sure that I'll find a way to get it to work.
Today as I've been testing Mixture of Agents with Hermes, I also installed Hermes Agent, and set up the Hermes Desktop, on Avi's two laptops, where I recently installed Arch Linux, which went smoothly on both. I set both Hermes installations to use the free Nemotron-3-Ultra via OpenCode for now, until Avi decides which providers and models he'd like to use.
I still have to get everything ready for my Sunday asset-management walk-through with Hermes, the most important task being to add the various relevant accounts and keys to our new encrypted vault, so that they will be available for Hermes to use in a secure manner. There are two sets of asset-management tasks for the We Are Alive Tribe that could be easily automated, though I have to make sure that there are fail safes in place to make certain that they happen when they're supposed to happen.
Other asset-management tasks, like pool management, are going to take a fair bit more explaning, as there are significant nuances and variables to the process. Even just setting up automation for a few of my daily and weekly asset-management tasks would be a huge help, because it would free up time. It just needs to be done well.
Yesterday, Wednesday, 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 a little late, it went very well, and after wrapping it up by about 6PM, I made myself some food, and collected my leftover superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to work with Hermes a bit more, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by around 10:30PM, and after working with Hermes one last round, I went to bed by about 11:45PM. I woke up just after 8AM (though I woke up first in the early morning, unable to sleep), 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, and to begin writing this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, so it's a 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 some 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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