I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1343 - 17,700 HP Surpassed, and the Growing Divide in FOSS/Linux/BSD Communities - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, April 1, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 24.65%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.057 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.869 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.04187252 SWAP.HIVE  

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.29239408 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00120211 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.129157 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000184 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 66,932.4 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000184 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 51.95 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,664.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 72.62 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #130 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#103 (among active witnesses only)/449k HP in votes/46 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, I ended up exceeding 17,700 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, sooner than expected, which was a rather nice surprise. This means that I'll easily smash 17,800 HP before the end of next week, and 18,000 HP in another week and a half after that. Ever since I reached around 15,000 HP I've noticed that my HP has been growing notably more quickly then before. Now it's just about flying.

The most interesting thing about my rapidly-increasing HP as of late is how I'm able to use it in my investing and asset-leveraging endeavors through direct delegations and HP leases. I finally feel like I'm settling in with a passive-income system that works well with my Hive-Engine layer-2 investments in various significant tokens and diesel/liquidity pools, with just a few more tweaks to go, and without the need to modify again for (hopefully) a good while. I like that quite a lot.

On a rather different topic, with the recent divide created in the FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software)/Linux/BSD communities over the insidious worldwide push by governments for age and identity verification at the OS (operating system) level, I've begun to dig and research more deeply into understanding the true reasons for the divide, and into looking much more closely at the underlying ethos and perspectives of the developers heading various FOSS/Linux/BSD projects, as it's become ever more apparent that some projects do indeed seem to have been infiltrated and compromised.

This is very disturbing to observe, and it highlights just how important it is to make sure that we learn about, and come to know, the people who run the software projects upon which we depend, and what their priciples actually are. Many projects started out great, then their development trajectories were swerved in very unpleasant directions surprisingly quickly, often blindsiding those not paying attention.

With how incredibly quickly that age and identity-verification 'laws' (fake laws) are being pushed on, and sadly accepted by, so many FOSS-Linux-BSD projects and operating systems, and how various significant FOSS projects, in seemingly coordinated implementations, have begun to apparently corral users into the adoption of compromised software infrastructure, paying attention and researching have never been more important. Because of this, Linux distributions (including my beloved Arch Linux) which use systemd as their default init (startup) system, as well as the Gnome and KDE Plasma desktop environments, and by association, Wayland, should be viewed with much greater suspicion now. I still very much love Arch Linux, but I'm exploring more widely and deeply now, to get the clearest possible perspective on what's actually happening, and what my best choices in this regard might be. I need to get a new de-Googled phone with an unlocked bootloader, probably to install GrapheneOS, quite soon I'd say, became this nonsense is surely coming to regular Google-controlled Android in no time. As for my laptop and Arch Linux, that's a good question. I'm still researching, watching, and waiting.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 12:15PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session went well, and we wrapped it up by around 4:45PM, after which I went to Tutu's, and then to Harmony's car to retrieve some supplies from town that she'd gotten for me, and with that I headed to Wabisabi to make myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, hot sauce, and spicy brown mustard), and finally I returned to the Flow House, with my food and leftover superfood fire coffee, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by around 9:30PM, and after some asset management, and scanning my X feed, I went to bed by just before 12AM. I woke up just before 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then making my way back to the Flow House to begin writing this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, 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 some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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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