It should have been sorted by penis.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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"there is no arrange by penis option"
What was that called already? Can't remember the name!
The website is down.
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Since this seems like a preventable issue for me, I wanted to disable the Set As Desktop Background… option in Firefox.
That was not as straightforward as I thought it would be:
- Settings: nope
- about:config: nope
- userChrome.css: The Internet, and LLMs tell you yes, but actually nope
What you have to do is create a policies.json file and put that somewhere…
Here is the deeply buried site from Mozilla about that. There you will find where to put it and all the options.
For this problem a short policies.json with the following content is enough:
{
"policies": {
"DisableSetDesktopBackground": true
}
}
Why did I do this in the middle of the night instead of browsing ich_iel or I dunno sleeping. Who knows…
Instead of locking down the the ability to set the wallpaper via Firefox, just set a static image as the wallpaper via GPO. A company logo or something. Then it will apply at every restart.
In a corporate environment where you care about such things, you really want to disable the functionality of the user setting the background in the operating system, not in a specific application. Otherwise, you're going to have to track down every application that includes this functionality, figure out how to disable it it in that application, and find a way to apply that change to every PC. (Microsoft's Photos app, for example, can set pictures as either background or lock screen.)
"Director of Finance"
Probably makes 6 figures but doesn't understand how walpapers work.
Real talk it was probably Heather works under her and asked "hey what do I do when a large picture of mustard appears on my screen" and Director Of Finance said "reboot and if it's still there I'll let so-and-so know from IT, then emailed it off to so-and-so from IT directly instead of entering a ticket
Edit: actually reviewing the screenshot it looks like this email was to the ticketing system so Director of Finance appears to have followed the correct prcoess
This is almost guaranteed to be correct.
*typo
My headcannon is more like, Director stops by and wants to know why Heather is looking at mustard bottles again, she has been warned about this, you see. She suddenly jumps and says "Oh, it uh, I was just working and then this happened." Well that's not fair is it? It's not like she was intentionally looking at mustard again
And that's the thing about IT, we save people's jobs. Even freaks. Blame us, Heather, our shoulders are broad.
True. I tell my clients when they do something dumb to blame IT. We can take the heat. It's part of the job.
It's like being a day care center employee. You're always responsible even when little Johnny puts a fork in the electrical socket.
TBF, Johnny is in daycare because he can't look after himself. Johnny isn't supposed to have unsupervised access to forks, and the electrical sockets are supposed to be covered. So I would consider the daycare at fault.
Unless that was the joke the whole time and I just got wooshed.
You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.
Crop to selection in Paint.net: ctrl + shift + x
Set as wallpaper in IrfanView: ctrl + shift + x
Happens to me all the fucking time.
Because you obviously need a shortcut to set a wallpaper lmao.
Ctrl + Alt + Down
Now your bottle is ready to dispense delicious mustard
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Leave Heather alone. There’s nothing wrong with this desktop background. Please refrain from remote connecting to her computer in the future.
This is reminiscent of an absolute classic video.
If you are not familiar with a story about penis-arranged icons, I recommend giving it a watch.
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And this is why we have a GPO that locks the background to a corporate image.
I think it's nice if people can set their own background picture. They can put a picture of their pets or family members which lowers the stress.
A better policy would be to hire people who can actually do basic things with the thing they'll be working 8 hours a day with.
One place I worked they happened to roll out a desktop background group policy while I was there and I learned that one person would open the image they wanted as their background in an image viewer cirst first and leave it open while they opened everything else for the day so they could pretend their preferred background was still their background.
Honestly I'm of two minds on setting a background as a group policy, because on one hand having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look, I've really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds amongst the too many places and people I've supported that dont lock down backgrounds. Like at worst its sometimes awkward pictures of someone's loved ones that are just really bad photos, but usually if they have set something it's something that means something to them so it's a nice little touch of personalization that might be the thing that helps them make it through the day
having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look
That kind of depends. When meeting with customers it might be preferred. But in most companies most of the computer screens are only seen by a handful of people who already work at the company.
I’ve really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds
Inappropriate backgrounds would fall under the general inappropriate rules. Like watching porn at work. I've never seen that.
it’s something that means something to them
It might even be a nice icebreaker at times. Like a vacation picture could spark a nice little talk about the destination.
Yeah I think if I were in a decision making position and that was a decision to make, I'd include a standard corporate desktop image in my standard computer config but only enforce it by policy on customer-facing PCs
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Are mustards in America classified by their colour instead of French, Dijon, English, Blow-Off-The-Top-Of-Your-Head, etc?
Yellow mustard is another name for American mustard
On America we refer to all of those as "fancy mustard". This yellow abomination is the default.
No, yellow mustard is the cheap standard stuff. The rest exist in NA too.
Not american, but in america I'm pretty sure mustard is just yellow dye.
Heh heh, Americans will finish posting their “British food” memes and then go back to squirting flavourless yellow paste onto a bag of par-boiled ground pigdick.
There are zero artificial ingredients in yellow mustards.
Vinegar, Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Tumeric, Paprika.
All the color is from tumeric.
huh, thats surprising.
They're labeled by type; one of those types happens to just be called "yellow." It's smooth and vinegary. Good on hot dogs and burgers.
Lies. The only reason I keep it around is to placate my friends and family who are afraid of real mustards.
French
English
Naming them by the country of origin is almost equally odd to me. You literally mentioned Dijon, which is also French. So wtf is French mustard supposed to mean. There's probably dozens or hundreds of French mustards.
To make it worse the UK has a weird "French" mustard which has nothing to do with France, its this darker, sweeter, less spicy mustard that Colman's invented and no longer make but you can still find own brand ones in the supermarket. Actual French mustards are referred to by name.
English mustard is a thing though.
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Heather doesn't lock her computer when she walks away. Don't be like Heather.
It sounds far more likely to me that she right-clicked on some image file and picked "Set as desktop background".
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That font in the signature, the fax into, the mustard!!!
... and last but not least, how the icon placement accentuates the natural curves of that mustard bottle ...
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