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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.
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.
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.
Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.
You’re not wrong there. I think this video was actually the first time I heard of it, but it’s been a long time since the last time I did.
Pretty sure boingboing is still around
I should have anticipated that this would exist.
Pretty much what I think whenever stumbling on any relatively unknown kink or fetish. The limits whack behavior caused by ape horneyness mixing with psychological complexes knows no bounds.
I always think ive seen it all, yet somehow the internet occasionally shows more.
I wonder how that will work on my other system with just the recycle bin and nothing else on the desktop
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
Oh true i have seen that long ago. Very sus then.
bottom picture could be IT POV checking what’s wrong
Could also be because they work in rds from thin clients
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”.
Which almost makes it worst. I mean I get the last part. Why ever she right clicked, she took the wrong option, fine. But how did she even end up on an image like that at work? What did she research?
Heinz mustard pictures?
I was on the website of a mustard manufacturer ten minutes ago. I was digging through Heinz ketchup pack sizes this morning.
Some of us love a saucy life. Who are you to judge?
Ok, I did my own research and realized that Heinz Mustard is a thing. I was convinced that Heinz only produces Ketchup but I was wrong. Sorry. This assumption made me think this is a weird montage and it still looks weird and montaged to me but who am I to judge
French’s Ketchup is a thing too!
They make pickle relish, and horseradish sauce too.
“Director of Finance”
Probably makes 6 figures but doesn’t understand how walpapers work.
You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.
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 their 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
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.
True. I tell my clients when they do something dumb to blame IT. We can take the heat. It’s part of the job.
It’s like being a day care center employee. You’re always responsible even when little Johnny puts a fork in the electrical socket.
This is almost guaranteed to he correct.
MUSSSSTAARRRRRRRRRRRD
HeinTz
It should have been sorted by penis.
“there is no arrange by penis option”
What was that called already? Can’t remember the name!
Right here: https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
The website is down.
Thank you!
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.jsonfile 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.jsonwith 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…
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.
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.)
Crop to selection in Paint.net: ctrl + shift + x
Set as wallpaper in IrfanView: ctrl + shift + xHappens to me all the fucking time.
Because you obviously need a shortcut to set a wallpaper lmao.
Here’s my new “you left your computer unlocked” image
We used to shout in the company chat about how much “i” love the company.
Very bad spanish sentences were fun too.I think ours were about wanting hugs from pink butterflies.
My favorite was to screenshot the desktop, set that as the background, then move everything on it to a different folder.
You can just disable desktop icons in windows. It’s both less destructive and more infuriating.
Flip the image upside down and then flip the screen upside down as well so it looks normal. Except for the cursor, which will be upside down and moving in the wrong direction.
In the good old days we would just do that prank by taking the ball out of the mouse and putting in again backwards.
I watched this without volume, but I could still hear it.
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.
One place I worked they happened to roll out a desktop background group policy while I was there and I learned that one person would open the image they wanted as their background in an image viewer cirst first and leave it open while they opened everything else for the day so they could pretend their preferred background was still their background.
Honestly I’m of two minds on setting a background as a group policy, because on one hand having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look, I’ve really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds amongst the too many places and people I’ve supported that dont lock down backgrounds. Like at worst its sometimes awkward pictures of someone’s loved ones that are just really bad photos, but usually if they have set something it’s something that means something to them so it’s a nice little touch of personalization that might be the thing that helps them make it through the day
having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look
That kind of depends. When meeting with customers it might be preferred. But in most companies most of the computer screens are only seen by a handful of people who already work at the company.
I’ve really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds
Inappropriate backgrounds would fall under the general inappropriate rules. Like watching porn at work. I’ve never seen that.
it’s something that means something to them
It might even be a nice icebreaker at times. Like a vacation picture could spark a nice little talk about the destination.
Yeah I think if I were in a decision making position and that was a decision to make, I’d include a standard corporate desktop image in my standard computer config but only enforce it by policy on customer-facing PCs
When you’re working for Heinz, is it a mustard bottle?
Yes, but a bit more artistic than a jpeg from a search engine.
MUSTARD ON THE BEAT
This calls for some old-school fuckery.
Omgawd just change the desktop background I don’t get it
