I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1353 - Diving Deep into Learning the dinit Init System, and Challenges with User Services - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, April 11, 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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Since successfully converting/migrating the first of my three separate Arch Linux installations over to Artix Linux, and replacing systemd with the dinit init system a few days ago, most things on this newly converted Artix installation are working correctly, with the two exceptions being loading modules at boot, and starting a user session for dinit and user services at login. I've been working on the latter issue first, as it's the most inconvenient, and while I am making progress, from lots of research combined with assistance from Grok, I still need more clarity around exactly what the root causes are, and how to effectively resolve them.

I'm working to understand and fix these dinit problems on this Arix installation, before I move on to converting my other two Arch Linux installations over to Artix. Arch uses systemd by default, which handles all of this automatically, but it's a code monstrosity, so staying with it and the direction that it's going is not an option. Of the various init systems available in Artix, dinit seems to be the most straight forward, but I will say that it'd a bit more complex than I had anticipated.

I definitely see why most Linux distributions use systemd over any other init system or service manager by default, with comparatively few exceptions. as it requires so much less manual configuration and setup. Convenience is one of the quickest paths to enslavement, however, and the direction that systemd, and several other of the important components of a Linux desktop are headed is quite disturbing to say the least, which is why I'm going through the trouble of finding other suitable options, like Artix Linux and its framework, which is still based on, and mostly compatible with my beloved Arch Linux.

I like the dinit init system quite a lot, I just need to understand it more clearly, and while there is some documentation, and very useful information available on it, since it is fairly new, and in active development, some of this information is notably out of date. So I'm still assessing what is still valid, and what can be disregarded. That's one of the challenges of community-driven open-source projects, but to me it's well with the effort.

It's good that I periodically fry my brain on investigating and resolving tech challenges on my Arch, and now Artix Linux, installations, because in the end I always end up coming to a much greater understanding of how everything works, and with that deeper understanding, I'm able to do so much more in an easeful and efficient manner. That's priceless to me, and it's how I've learned most of what I'm now able to do in Linux (or in any other context for that matter). The freedom and power that Linux offers increases dramatically the more that we understand exactly how it and its various systems work, which is of course true of many things. If you have any inclination in the techy direction, then I would say to learn and get into Linux, and even if you don't have any techy proclivity at all, I'd still say to explore Linux, because it can easily supports both, and everything in between.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and doing more dinit troubleshooting, quite late, by a little after 3:30PM, partly due to sharing a techy conversation with Alex, who came up to drop off something that he had borrowed. As I usually do, I gave my attention to some photography for my posts first, and then to a few small jungle-community/land work tasks, finally heading to Wabisabi in the early evening 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 with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, heading back to the Flow House to do a little more dinit research, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by 10:15PM, and after some asset management, and more dinit research, I went to bed by a bit after 12:30PM. I woke up just after 7PM, having slept reasonably well, doing more dinit research, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, returning to the Flow House to do even more dinit research, and finally to start on this post. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other important Sunday 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 a few small jungle-community/land work tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version 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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