I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1553 - Day Two Exploring Omarchy with Hermes - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, October 19, 2026

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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 8 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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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, it's been two days now since installing Omarchy Linux, and getting my Hermes Agent up and running on it, and it's been quite an adventure indeed. Omarchy's Hyperland and Quick Shell combo is a whole different animal from the KDE Plasma setup on my other three Arch/Artix installations, and the learning process has been filled with both frustrations and happy surprises. Overall, I'm liking the user interface the more that I learn how to use it. I still do prefer X11, due to its immensely-greater flexibility, as Wayland is much more strict and therefore more limited, but I'm getting the hang of working with it.

Omarchy, while being Arch Linux under the hood, also has some very interesting differences from regular Arch, one of the most notable of which is that it uses unified kernel images, where the kernel, initramfs, microcode, and command-line options are combined into one single file. It's fascinating, and I've never seen anything like it before.

Omarchy is right in the middle, between being familiar Arch Linux, and being a very different iteration with its own unique way of doing things. It's definitely a very AI-Agent-focused way or building an operating system, which is one of the main reasons that I wanted to give it a try, and to explore what's possible with that framework.

I've kept Hermes busy getting various of my applications and workflows functioning as they should once again, sometimes in the same way, and sometimes via an alternate route. I still haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to keep Omarchy as my daily driver, but I will use and explore it as such for a good while, so that I'm able to come to a clear perspective on it.

There's a whole world within Omarchy that I haven't explored at all yet, the thousands of available plugins that add new functionality, that Hermes can also create for itself. There are some pretty amazing ones, so I'm very much looking forward to diving into them as soon as I get my essential apps and workflows back the way that I like them. The Omarchy fun continues!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 3PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, after which I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I unloaded Ano's truck after the Sunday market. With those completed, I took a shower and headed back to the Flow House for a short break, and to check in on Hermes. I finally went to make food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge in Wabisabi just before sunset, before returning to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work some more with Hermes. I got through all of my notifications by around 10:30PM, and after one more round of work with Hermes, I went to bed by a bit after 11:30PM. I woke up by about 8AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then making my way back to the Flow House to power up my BBHO and write and publish a post about it, to work a bit more with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just before 2PM, so it's a fantastic time to wrap this up, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then to walk over to my friend Lea's place to assist her with a land work project. 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.

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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