I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1570 - Hermes Agent and Omarchy Linux Together Are a Productivity Workhorse and a Fun Playground - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, November 5, 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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While there are indeed some features and implementations that I miss from KDE Plasma on my other Arch/Artix installations, Omarchy's Hyperland-QuickShell user interface is really growing on me. In its native tiled-window mode, Omarchy is what I would describe as a very effective and efficient desktop environment. It's very obvious that productivity was the goal with the Omarchy UI and its large number of useful key bindings. That's an excellent environment for any kind of computer work, including work with AI agents, and agentic-AI frameworks, like Hermes.

Combine this efficient work environment with Hermes, and productivity rises dramatically. It's not all about work, however. Hermes Agent on Omarchy is also one of the most fun OS frameworks that I've ever used, because there are just so many diverse and exciting possibilities to explore, both individually, and together. They're both truly extraordinary on their own, and together they're an absolutely badass combo.

This is one reason, among many, that make me think that Omarchy will indeed soon become one of the most popular Linux distributions, and even one of the most popular operating systems in general, because aside from all the other things that make it amazing, it is built for both work and play. A great deal of care is also given to making sure that everything is beautiful.

Hermes and Omarchy both just received a version bump, with several new features being added to each, such as the ability to switch between tiled-window mode and a more usual desktop experience with floating windows and an app dock with one keyboard command in Omarchy, and now being able to run the Hermes Desktop app as a web app in a browser tab. One other very interesting and useful thing that both Hermes and Omarchy do is to take a backup snapshot before updating/upgrading, so that if anything goes wrong, recovery is a simple and quick process.

It's fascinating that I discovered both of these incredible open-source, community-driven technological projects and frameworks, that have become such an integral part of how and what I do in my daily flow, this year, 2026. So in reality, I'm only just beginning with both of them (I've been using Omarchy's base, Arch Linux, for 9+ years now, however). That's a whole lot of change in a very short time span!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by 3PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that completed, and after a food-supply run to Tutu's to restock Wabisabi, I worked with Ano to finish the coco-corral task that I started with Akhil yesterday, and also to help him move two plant tables from his nursery, to a spot along the way going to Tutu's. Once we wrapped that up, I drove Ano's truck back to the other side of the property, took a shower, made Avi (who's paying me to do so) and myself some food in Wabisabi, shared dinner with him, collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, and finally I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and of course to work some more with Hermes. I got through all of my notifications by a bit after 9:30PM, and after one more round of work with Hermes, I went to bed by just about 12AM. I woke up by a little after 7AM, having slept reasonably well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to work another round with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just after 2:15PM, so it's a marveous 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 expression 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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