I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1344 - Deeper Freedom-Focused Linux Research, and My Leap to Artix Linux Approaches - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, April 2, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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I've been diving ever deeper into researching the tangled insidious web that is systemd-Wayland-KDE Plasma-Gnome in relation to the new nosense 'laws' now being put into place for age and identity-verification at the OS level, and into the Arch-based (I still love Arch) Linux distributions that are standing their ground, and not going along with it. After reading this investigative report this morning, I finally came to the clear conclusion that I should indeed get myself off of a systemd-based Linux distribution quite soon indeed.

In my own investigations I explored multiple very interesting Linux projects like Void Linux, Solus Linux, Chimera Linux, Obarun Linux, among others, and while there are some that I'd love to install and dive into exploring more deeply, the Linux distribution that meets my criteria the most solidly, Arch-based, systemd-free, and supporting XLibre, is Artix Linux, which was forked from Arch Linux in 2017.

Going with Artix still let's me run Arch under the hood, while at the same time removing systemd and its dependencies, and replacing the intentionally-neglected (to push people to Wayland, and by association, systemd) X11 project with the recently-forked and updated XLibre. I've been using the KDE Plasma desktop environment for many years now, and with its upcoming requirement of Wayland and systemd, it would seem that I might indeed have to switch that to a non-systemd and non-Wayland DE (Desktop Environment) as well, possibly to SonicDE or Singularity.

Thankfully there are excellent guides, tutorials, and walk-throughs on the process of converting an Arch Linux installation into Artix, so I don't think that it will be all that difficult. Even if I do mess things up somehow, I have backups all all three of my Arch installations, so I will be able to start again easily if things do happen to go awry. That's very helpful.

I've been using and working with the same 3 Arch installations for more than 8.5 years now, across multiple computers, hard drives, and SSDs, because it's such an incredible OS (Operating System) and software framework, so I don't take the idea of switching to Artix lightly, though thankfully most of that will still be available to me in Artix. It's so interesting to me that the deeper I go, and the more that I learn about the hardware and software frameworks that I use, the more I find myself aligning increasingly more with what are often called the FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) and freedom/liberty 'purists', because now I clearly understand their perspectives and reasons for makng the decisions that they have, and do. They could see things that others, including me, couldn't see at the time. That's why I dive deep, sooner or later, into every rabbit hole that comes into my awareness, because in researching and reconciling them, it helps me come to a far wider, deeper, more-whole, and accurate perspective and understanding, which then allows me to make better choices, and in everything.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2:15PM, giving my attention to a few small jungle-community tasks, and to some photography for my posts. With those completed, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I tidied up the area a bit. I felt rather 'off' yesterday, so I didn't accomplish as much as I would have liked. I finally made myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, hot sauce, and spicy brown mustard) in Wabisabi a bit before sunset, and with that and my jar of superfood fire coffee in hands, I returned to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by just after 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by just after 11PM. I woke up around 6:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management and FOSS/Linux research, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to continue with my research, and to write this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, 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 leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on jungle-community/land work and tasks. 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.

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