• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Instructions unclear, had wobbly windows on a cube in hs 15 years ago but did not obtain degree or career, plz advise.

    Also holy shit its actually been 15 years, jfc. Am I old now?

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      “The build is failing. Does anyone know why the build is failing!? See, right here. It says the build failed. Can someone look into why the build failed. Why is the build failing??”

      10 minutes later…

      “Nvm. It was something I did.”

        • Dianoga@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          I also seem to be a member of the ancient society of log readers.

          I really don’t understand why membership is so exclusive. Deciphering log messages isn’t always super easy but it usually isn’t too bad.

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Fortunately not really, in my case. I stay out of the pipelines game as much as possible and focus on systems that enable better and more obvious pipelines. And then sometimes go tune some pipelines but mostly I find them to be pretty atrocious UI and much too snowflakey.

    • sc0rethem@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Based on your username i guess you must be the bastard operator from hell ;)

      Bastard Operator from Hell

      Jokes aside, your story reminds me of my own, even though i needed to take a detour to realize i would love to make money doing that stuff.

  • noddy@beehaw.org
    141·
    1 year ago

    Its likely that I wouldn’t use linux today if it weren’t for messing around with compiz settings on school computers back when I was a teenager. Wobbly windows and desktop cube was such fun. I guess that’s how we can recruit new linux users. Get them while they’re young. “But does your windows laptop do this?” wobble wobble closing application by lighting the window on fire.

  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I still remember the first time I saw the demo video where they flip a window around and write a note on the back of it. Blew my mind.

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      1 year ago

      I went to university with David Reveman. He did his master’s thesis presentation about compiz (or actually glitz which was a precursor) as slides on the top of the cube, and everybody just assumed it was PowerPoint. Then when it was time for a demo he just flipped the cube around to the Gnome desktop. People’s jaws dropped, it was amazing, 🙂

  • haruki@programming.dev
    12·
    1 year ago

    Haha your post made me reflect my journey. I had fun in college tinkering Arch Linux with i3. Now I’m an Infra Engineer (or DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, whatver) and still do the same job—keeping the system “reliable”.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’ve used Linux exclusively since '06 when I was the nerdiest kid in junior high, I ran Gentoo and various tiling wms until KDE plasma 5 got good.

      I’m a coffee roaster now, and my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

      • haruki@programming.dev
        4·
        1 year ago

        my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

        Maybe his/her experience in keeping the system simple and beautiful helped him/her recognise the passion in art.

    • cheet@infosec.pub
      6·
      1 year ago

      Similar story for me, Ubuntu w/ wobbly windows and desktop cube in Jr High (I was a particularly nerdy kid), arch w/ i3 in HS and college, now I’m a DevSecOps Developer (engineer is a sacred term in Canada)

      Learning to do naughty things to the WEP wifi around me is what led me to now doing penetration tests at my org.

      Funny how goofing around on a computer as a kid can lead to careers and passions.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I wish I would have taken a career in something related to Linux as I have always loved it and used it to a degree (stopped a bit when I got my first Mac, but that was after the career ended anyway), but I did in administration and now I’m unhappy I liked the heck out of Compiz though.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      SRE is Site Reliability Engineer. I think the other two are screensavers maybe? I’m trying to decipher this myself.

      Ok I think those are some kind of virtual machines or containers after reading other comments lol.

        • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          1 year ago

          Yeah that’s pretty much it. You had multiple virtual desktops that let you have different sets of windows up on each and when you switched between them it played this cool animation of them laid out in a cube that you rotated to the next face. Then the wobbly windows is exactly what it sounds like. They’d jiggle when you dragged them around or when you maximized them.

          Ran like crap on my old laptop I used for school but my god it was necessary to have. Still brings a goofy smile to my face whenever I’m moving windows around today since it’s a thing you can still do in Linux desktop environments. Had I not had my Comp Sci degree pursuits disrupted by chronic illness I’d likely have had a similar experience to OP.