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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 6 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 6 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] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It should have been sorted by penis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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 6 days ago

The website is down.

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

MUSSSSTAARRRRRRRRRRRD

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (13 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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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (13 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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Director of Finance"

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is almost guaranteed to be correct.

*typo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 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.

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

True. I tell my clients when they do something dumb to blame IT. We can take the heat. It's part of the job.

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

It's like being a day care center employee. You're always responsible even when little Johnny puts a fork in the electrical socket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 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 ͡°)

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

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

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

Ctrl + Alt + Down

Now your bottle is ready to dispense delicious mustard

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (10 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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (12 children)

and of all the amazing mustards available, she had to get stuck with one of the most shitty vinegary last-resort-only option

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