| Hello, and welcome to my gemlog! | |
| Hi, I'm jbehnke747 and I live in Wisconsin, USA. I am 41 years old | |
| and new to this part of the Internet. I have a wife and two sons: | |
| the oldest is 12 and the other is 6. We also have a dog named Mazie, | |
| who is a lab and border collie mix, and a cat named Gracie. | |
| I was a Windows fan from the time I first learned how to use a | |
| computer in the late 1990's but have recently entered the Linux | |
| world and plan to stay here. I recently discovered Gopherspace and | |
| now Gemini from Distrotube on YouTube and wanted to make somewhat | |
| of a home in this part of the Internet, as I find it to be very | |
| interesting and fresh. | |
| I am making this post using the Lagrange Gemini client (Flatpak) | |
| in PeppermintOS (a Debian-based Linux distribution) on a 12-year-old | |
| Toshiba Satellite L655 laptop that originally shipped with Windows 7. | |
| I inherited this computer from my parents, who upgraded to an iPad a | |
| year or so ago. I have a modern laptop, but it is quite small because | |
| it is of the 2-in-1 convertible laptop and tablet design, so | |
| sometimes I prefer to use this older computer for general computing. | |
| It was almost unusable when I got it from my parents because it | |
| couldn't handle Windows 7 anymore due to the bloated size of the | |
| operating system after about 11 years of updates. I have been able to | |
| squeeze some more life out of it by installing PeppermintOS on it, | |
| as it is very a very light-weight operating system so it runs well | |
| on older machines. I plan to upgrade the RAM to 8GB sometime soon, | |
| which should further improve the performance of the machine. If I | |
| remember correctly it has 3 GB of RAM now, which is the original, | |
| factory stock size. | |
| What will I write about here in the future? Perhaps a little about my | |
| Christian faith? My family and I believe that Jesus is the son of God | |
| and that he was crucified, buried, and rose from the grave 3 days | |
| later. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, as | |
| it is written in the Bible. I won't attempt to shove God down your | |
| throat because I don't believe that is an effective approach to | |
| helping save people's souls. I do, however, hope that you might keep | |
| an open mind to my belief that God is real and that Jesus loves you | |
| and wants you to know Him. I might also write about my home, which is | |
| a small, 3-bedroom house, but has some historical value to it because | |
| it was built in or around 1865 by members of a family who migrated | |
| west from Portland, Maine. | |
| Thank you for reading my first gemlog post. This has been fun, and I | |
| hope you will stop by again! | |
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