I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1562 - Arch Linux+Hermes Agent=Perfect Together, Omarchy Combines Two Tech Passions into a Beautiful Whole - Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, October 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I was on straight Arch Linux for 9+ years, and I've been working with Hermes Agent for about 5 months now, both of which I would definitely call strong tech passions, and while Hermes in vanilla Arch is pretty great, my leap to Omarchy Linux was a very good one, because it elegantly combines both Arch and AI agents (in my case Hermes), into a very beautiful, fun, and functional agentic-AI-integrated whole. Both projects enthusiastically welcome agentic-AI community contributions, both bug fixes and features, with the excitement in both interconnected communities running very high indeed, and their pace of development moving extraordinarily quickly.

Omarchy definitely has a few notable differences from regular Arch, which I've been learning as I've worked with it over the past 10 days, but I've got to say that I've very much been loving it. Both Hermes and Omarchy have extensive, and constantly-growing registries of plugins, to add new capabilities, features, and integrations, that I've slowly been exploring and trying out. Hermes even built me a custom Qortal-status plugin to replace the old Java applet from my Arch/Artix installations (before KDE Plasma removed most X11 support) +, that now lives in the top task bar, and created a GitHub repository for it. Now to get it into the Omarchy Plugin Registry!

While I did appreciate periodically swapping between my three Arch/Artix installations over the course of many years, I'm really appreciating now focusing my work in only one Omarchy installation, as it just makes everything so much simpler. I definitely don't have to track and remember so many moving parts any longer, which I'm very much digging.

The possibility of being able to help improve and contribute to these two exceptional FOSS frameworks is extremely inspiring, motivating, and exciting for me. They're both already amazingballs to the max, so the potential of helping to make them even more glorious lands with me exceedingly well indeed.

Hermes integrated into Omarchy makes using my laptop notably more interesting and fun than any time previously, and that is really saying something, because I've done some really cool things in Arch over the years! I've certainly been getting the feeling that a new tech era has begun for me, and holy jumping fuckmuffins is it exciting (yes, I know that I already said that, but it's so very true!)!

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. Even though the weather was far from ideal, the session went well, and we finally wrapped it up by about 5PM, after which I went to Wabisabi to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, before heading back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work a bit more with Hermes. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9PM, and after another good round of work with Hermes, I went to bed by just after 12AM. Unfortunately, even though I ran the generator for hours that night, our solar electric batteries still crashed around 2AM, so Avi came to wake me up, so that I could assist him with starting the generator again. Although I tried, sadly I couldn't get back to sleep, so I'm feeling quite tired as I write this. I finally went to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi around 9:15AM, returning to the Flow House immediately afterward to write this post, and to work with Hermes some more. It's now just before 2:45PM, so it's a lovely 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 iteration 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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