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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"Director of Finance"

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is almost guaranteed to be correct.

*typo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days 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.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you saying you've never been shopping online, saw a shapely bottle of mustard, and then wanted to set it as your desktop background as quickly as possible? Why, it's the next best thing to having a framed photo of the sexy, squeezable condiment with low calories and delectable flavor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You have created the perfect comment. I hope to encounter this comment again, randomly, all across Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Thanks. I storyboard all my comments with my team. Moxy the cat and Wilford Brimley, my Japanese Chin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It should have been sorted by penis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"there is no arrange by penis option"

What was that called already? Can't remember the name!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The website is down.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When you're working for Heinz, is it a mustard bottle?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ctrl + Alt + Down

Now your bottle is ready to dispense delicious mustard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Only on laptops with Intel graphics where IT hasn't deactivated the unnecessary utility that comes with them.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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 ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I'll let you RDP into me any time...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

MUSSSSTAARRRRRRRRRRRD

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

Happens to me all the fucking time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Because you obviously need a shortcut to set a wallpaper lmao.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

No, yellow mustard is the cheap standard stuff. The rest exist in NA too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not american, but in america I'm pretty sure mustard is just yellow dye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are zero artificial ingredients in yellow mustards.

Vinegar, Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Tumeric, Paprika.

All the color is from tumeric.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's clearly rated according to fluorescense.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

She make the directors mad, but somebody's gotta do it

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