I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1370 - Notable Setbacks with OpenClaw, Opinionated Software, and Pivoting to ClawSwarm - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, April 28, 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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My recent deep dive into installing and setting up OpenClaw in the first of my three separate Arch/Artix Linux installations, much to my intense chagrin, went notably awry, and crashed and burned, and almost entirely because of how rigid and inflexible the OpenClaw installer and setup is. It is what could aptly be called 'opinionated software', or software that is implented in a very this-way-or-the-highway manner, regardless of how open and flexible it is claimed to be.

Two cases in point. First of all, for Linux installations, the OpenClaw installers and setups defaults to using systemd, which makes using the default installation and setup methods impossible in my systems. Another glaring issue is that they default to Linux distributions that utilize apt (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint) or dnf (Red Hat, Fedora) package managers, so they don't know how to handle Arch/Artix Linux's pacman package manager, or any other Linux package manager outside of their tiny list. To me, those are both ridículous implementations, and a perfect example of opinionated coding/programming/development, that forces people into a very narrow range of feasible choices or options.

After two days of trying to make things work with how I intend to set things up, and running into strong friction in the process of doing so, in sheer exhaustion, I've decided to start looking into and exploring other, hopefully simpler end more flexible options, other than OpenClaw. The project that I mentioned yesterday, ClawSwarm, and the greater Swarm ecosystem and framework of which it's a part, is where my mind went first, and after a bit of more in-depth assessment, I realized that it may indeed fit my needs even better then OpenClaw.

ClawSwarm is a Rust-based reimplementation of OpenClaw, with its primary focuses being on speed, simplicity, flexibility, effectiveness, efficiency, and security, so it does seem to be right up my alley indeed. For communication with AI agents and their models, there is also a an extremely-convenient unified-messaging gateway and framework, that connects easily with Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp. It's default orchestrator/specialized-workers template is almost exactly what I've been trying to implement in OpenClaw, so again, it seems quite aligned with my needs.

ClawSwarm is still very new, it only appeared on Github in February of this year, though in that short time, in large part because of its integration with the larger Swarm ecosystem and framework, it is already at basically production-level use and capability. That's pretty astonishing. Later this evening I'll be diving into all the nitty-gritty details of Swarm and ClawSwarm, to see what I might actually be able to do with them. Oh yeah, I need sleep, and balance, and fast!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, quite late, by about 2:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to a few small jungle-community tasks. Once those were completed, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, after which I went to dig more planting holes in the front orchard, with a shovel and an o-o bar (an essential tool for our extremely-rocky soil). After I wrapped that up for the day, I took a shower, made myself some food in Wabisabi, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to do another round of agentic-AI research, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. Due to being so caught up in researching, troubleshooting, and testing, I didn't start on Hive until much later than I usually do, and while I got close, I wasn't able to get through all my notifications before I had to stop by about 10:30PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed by about 12:30PM. I woke up around 7AM, definitely still feeling that I needed much more sleep, doing more AI research, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to do more research, and to write this post. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's quite 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 more photography for my posts, and then on jungle-community/land work and task. 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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