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[–] 127 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Leave Heather alone. There’s nothing wrong with this desktop background. Please refrain from remote connecting to her computer in the future.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you haven't, please watch the original, full video! It's hilarious from beginning to end...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is that whats implied here? I thought Heather just went to her Boss to complain and the Boss called IT...

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Heather doesn't lock her computer when she walks away. Don't be like Heather.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Happened to me previously several times. I find it crazy to even have this option in the context menu.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Director of Finance"

    Probably makes 6 figures but doesn't understand how walpapers work.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And this is why we have a GPO that locks the background to a corporate image.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here's my new "you left your computer unlocked" image

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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 ...

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Why do webbrowsers, file managers, always have the option "set as your desktop background" in a easy to accidentally click place in the context menu? No, i add it myself to the "backgrounds" folder if i care.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ctrl + Alt + Down

    Now your bottle is ready to dispense delicious mustard

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a mustard lover, heinz isnt even close to the actual worst one, which is the whole foods brand mustard. Its made with apple cider and it is revolting. The best widely available yellow mustard to just grab in a store is plochman's.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    There are so many awesome fancy mustards out there, but if I want the ballpark standard yellow mustard, I usually just go for French’s. It’s the same principle with ketchup. When I want ketchup I just want Heinz. If I go to a restaurant and they are all proud of their “house made” ketchup, it is probably going to be too sweet or tomatoy or whatever. Just give me what I grew up with and don’t mess with it.

    That said my wife has been making mustard at home recently and it is amazing. It’s not yellow mustard but a tangy grainy mustard that is great.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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…

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.)

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ghosts, she got ghosts in her drive

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    Are mustards in America classified by their colour instead of French, Dijon, English, Blow-Off-The-Top-Of-Your-Head, etc?

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Crop to selection in Paint.net: ctrl + shift + x
    Set as wallpaper in IrfanView: ctrl + shift + x

    Happens to me all the fucking time.

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