I live barefooted and naked, 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. 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

How do you Hive, my friends? What I mean by that is, how do you connect and interface with Hive? What web browsers, applications, front-ends, and authentication methods do you use, and why?

I know that's a lot of questions with which to begin a post, but I'm honestly curious, especially given the astounding number of choices and combinations. In my two years on the Blockchain I've tried out, explored, experimented, and tinkered with many, and in that time I've honed what I use to my select handful.

I also make certain that I have backup ways of doing things, if my preferred methods don't work for some reason. I've come to really love and appreciate just how incredibly useful redundancy truly is.

My Hive Handful

Browsers and Authentication

• Vivaldi (Mobile and Desktop Apps)
  Vivaldi is my main we browser on both my computer and my phone. It's fast, secure, incredibly configurable, and privacy focused. I use both the stable release and the developmental snapshot versions on my Android phone, and on Arch Linux on my laptop. I use the Keychain for Hive browser extension for authentication on my laptop. HiveSigner is my backup authentication method.

• Brave (Mobile and Desktop Apps)
  Brave is my backup browser. It's another fast, secure, privacy-focused browser, with a host of useful features.

• Keychain for Hive (Android App and Browser Extension)
  Keychain is my preferred method of authentication, on both my Android phone via the Keychain for Hive app, and via the browser extension on my laptop. Keychain on mobile phones integrates both web browsing and authentication in one application.

• Web Apps (Using Vivaldi and Vivaldi-Snapshots - Mobile and Desktop)
  Web apps are quite easy to create using certain browsers, if a website support it. There are also ways to create web apps even if a website doesn't have support for it. I use web apps with HiveSigner as my backup method if Keychain for Hive doesn't work for some reason.

Front-Ends

• PeakD (Both the Release and the Beta Sites)
  PeakD is one of my two main front-ends that I use to interact with Hive (the other being Ecency). I use PeakD to write and publish posts (because it has posts templates and auto-save) manage tokens (it has the best interface), and to see useful account information.

• Ecency Website and Mobile App
  I use Ecency, both the website (in the Keychain for Hive mobile app, and the website on both mobile and laptop) and the Android app, because they are rather different, with certain things being easier and faster in one or the other. I use Ecency to do my daily catch-up on notifications, comment and reply, upvote, reblog, and for promotional posts to DBuzz using Decks.

• Assorted Other Front-Ends for Specialized Tasks
  There are dozens of Hive websites and front-ends that I use to do one or a few very specific things, like Threads (post promotion and voting), HiveHub.dev (to swap instantly between HIVE and HBD), BeeSwap (to manage diesel/liquidity pools), Tribaldex (to manage diesel/liquidity pools and to buy and sell layer-2 tokens), Hive Engine (to claim rewards, buy and sell layer-2 tokens, and to receive off-chain tokens), among several others.

So That's the majority of how I interface and interact with our beloved Hive Blockchain Ecosystem every day. These are the methods that I've found to be most useful, rapid, efficient, and effective in doing what I need and want to do on Hive. If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them! It's so fascinating to me that everyone's Hive experience is so unique, and in big part because people have different methods of working with Hive. Let me know what you find most useful!

I was able to get my Hive catch-up and tasks to a good pause-point by about 3PM yesterday, which is when I left the Flow House to go focus on some land work. I took a little time to walk around in the shimmering late-afternoon sun to take more photos for this post. Once I was done with photos, I chopped an older coconut for my superfood fire coffee in the mornings, then I sharpened two machetes (for myself and Ano) to go clear cane grass around the milk stantion (milking station), which had not been used in probably a bit more than a year.

I was hoping that the clearing job was going to be quick, but nope, not at all...😂 Because there was a lot of old cow manure in the area, the cane grass proliferated (even more than it usually does, which is really saying something!), so it was super dense and about 15-feet tall. I started clearing, but it was slow going. I inched along, a little at a time, through the impenetrable mass of very-hard canes (culms). Ano and Caniela (a Buddhist monk who used to live and GaiaYoga, and who still visits periodically) joined me maybe half an hour after I began, to assist the clearing process. It took all three of us more than an hour of non-stop clearing with sharp machetes to get the milk stantion clear enough to use again. I think that we either need a huge lawn mower or a trained elephant to do this job easily!

After we finished clearing, I sharpened the machetes one more time, as the cane grass, which has a lot of silica in its stems, dulls machetes quite quickly. Once I had them nice and sharp again, I took a shower, made myself food in the Landing, got food for my ever-adorable kitten friend Flowz, and then I returned to the Flow House for my evening round of Hive catch-up and tasks. I was able to get everything done on Hive just a little before 10PM, which allowed me to focus on some needed work on my oldest Arch Linux installations (Arch1, just over 6 years old).

I went to sleep a little after 11PM,and I slept well, until around 3:30AM, when I got up to put a little more focus into solving a bizarre issue in Arch Linux. I stayed doing that for maybe half an hour, then I went back to sleep until about 8AM.

The time is now getting close to my 2PM posting cutoff, so it's a good time to end this post for the moment, so that I can get to my afternoon round on Hive, and then land work later. I deeply appreciate you all! Until tomororow! Onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power 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! 😁🙏💚

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.

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