• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    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?

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funOPEnglish
      2·
      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 to snowflakey.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      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.”

  • haruki@programming.dev
    4·
    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
      3·
      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
        3·
        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
      3·
      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.

  • Blass Rose@pawb.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    It ran at like 1FPS on my computer (got it up to like 10 with some performance toggles), but I totally still needed to have it on!

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      I loved playing videos that popped out and wrapped around corners. How is this not a thing now? How is there no similar compositor?

      • Blass Rose@pawb.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nowadays we just have multiple monitors, and even windows supports multiple desktops with quick ways to change between them. Though I think the best thing to come out of that addition is the fact that waking up your computer doesn’t mess up your window layout anymore. Like it does for a second, but then it fixes them all less than a second later. It was honestly one of my biggest gripes with having multiple monitors.

      • SixtyFour@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s Wayfire. The github says that’s it’s inspired by Compiz. I’ve never used either of these so I don’t know how similar they are to each other. It is Wayland though so if you’re not into that kindof thing it could not be for you.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    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.

  • noddy@beehaw.org
    3·
    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.