Leave Heather alone. There’s nothing wrong with this desktop background. Please refrain from remote connecting to her computer in the future.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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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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If you haven't, please watch the original, full video! It's hilarious from beginning to end...
I have - I think seventeen years ago, in fact. I do remember enjoying it, but I missed a lot (I was barely into my IT career and didn't even know what Boing Boing was, for example). Should probably rewatch it. Thank you for the link.
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Is that whats implied here? I thought Heather just went to her Boss to complain and the Boss called IT...
The bar at the top shows up in remote desktop connections
bottom picture could be IT POV checking what's wrong
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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".
Happened to me previously several times. I find it crazy to even have this option in the context menu.
It's up there with "Send image as email" which I suspect like 5 people have used in the last 20 years
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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.
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"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
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You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.
Here's my new "you left your computer unlocked" image
My favorite was to screenshot the desktop, set that as the background, then move everything on it to a different folder.
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We used to shout in the company chat about how much "i" love the company.
Very bad spanish sentences were fun too.
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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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Ctrl + Alt + Down
Now your bottle is ready to dispense delicious mustard
Only on laptops with Intel graphics where IT hasn't deactivated the unnecessary utility that comes with them.
We used to do this stuff to people who would leave their computers open, or flip the screen upside down.
It was a pretty benign way to teach people to lock their damn computers when they left.
I used to take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the wallpaper. Then hide all the desktop icons and set the taskbar to auto hide.
Microsoft removing CTRL - ALT and arrrow to turn the screen is a crime.
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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…
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.)
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.
Are mustards in America classified by their colour instead of French, Dijon, English, Blow-Off-The-Top-Of-Your-Head, etc?
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.
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No, yellow mustard is the cheap standard stuff. The rest exist in NA too.
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My work wallpaper includes a picture of a product called 8 HOT DOGS IN BRINE that @Trilobyte@feddit.uk posted a few weeks ago
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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.
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