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.
I should have anticipated that this would exist.
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.
What the hell! 😁
Well, there is a longer version of the video that provides some context. It seems the caller is either trying to access or host a website (possibly both) and it has gone down, so they called tech support.
The icon arrangement was apparently done spitefully to the remote desktop by the person the caller replaced and the caller simply became accustomed to it.
Beyond that, I cannot resolve your query.
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
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
As I wrote that comment I wondered: "does Windows still have that option in the context menu?" I'm rarely on Windows so can't quickly check.
My memory says that it's even an option when right-clicking an image on the web. I decided to ignore that memory - surely that can't still be a thing! ...Right?
Edit: oh crap, it's actually an option on Firefox on Linux Mint. Damn, that's crazy. Then it's gotta be there on Windows too. Much easier to imagine it happening accidentally on the web than an image file on PC.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
I was wondering why that didn't work... No fun allowed.
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:
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.
and of all the amazing mustards available, she had to get stuck with one of the most shitty vinegary last-resort-only option
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.
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.
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.
No, yellow mustard is the cheap standard stuff. The rest exist in NA too.
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.
She make the directors mad, but somebody's gotta do it
you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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