I love the minimalism of stock Gnome. You don’t have to make those Ubuntu icons as small as possible or auto-hide the dock. You don’t have to go to obscure settings windows to hide icons on your desktop. It’s just minimal out of the box. Just you and your apps. You can have floaty windows if you want, but it’s also really simple to run your apps fullscreen or half-screen with just a keystroke. I love it.
If you had these books plus maybe one more about assembly programming you knew pretty much everything there was to know about the C-64. No stacks, frameworks, abstractions, etc, etc. There’s a part of me that is really nostalgic for this era of programming.
On the other hand, with the C-64 I only ever got so far. I was really isolated back then. I only had one other programmer friend and when he moved away I had nobody to share my enthusiasm with, and I hit some roadblocks with the programs I was trying to write, and it just kinda fizzled away until the Web and higher-level languages made things easier and forums and search engines let me connect with people.
I really wish there was a compact/old.reddit theme for Lemmy
I got a 12U roadcase rack at Guitar Center last year. It’s nice but it’s only 17in deep which means my choices for server chassis were pretty limited and I haven’t been able to find any rack rails that fit.