Mustard

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…
- 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.)

"Director of Finance"
Probably makes 6 figures but doesn't understand how walpapers work.
- 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.
- You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.

Crop to selection in Paintnet: 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.

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

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.

Are mustards in America classified by their colour instead of French, Dijon, English, Blow-Off-The-Top-Of-Your-Head, etc?
- On America we refer to all of those as "fancy mustard". This yellow abomination is the default.
- No, yellow mustard is the cheap standard stuff. The rest exist in NA too.
- Not american, but in america I'm pretty sure mustard is just yellow dye.
  
  There are zero artificial ingredients in yellow mustards.
  Vinegar, Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Tumeric, Paprika.
  All the color is from tumeric.
- 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.
  
  Person's family name was French. Hence the name. Their first factory is in my city.
- 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.
- It's clearly rated according to fluorescense.

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.
  
  If you haven't, please watch the original, full video! It's hilarious from beginning to end...
  
  https://github.com/ZaDarkSide/ArrangeByPenis
  
  What the hell! 😁
  
  Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.
- 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

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
- When you're working for Heinz, is it a mustard bottle?
  
  Yes, but a bit more artistic than a jpeg from a search engine.

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 ͡°)
- I'll let you RDP into me any time...
  
  Then I'll open a separate vnc (and mirror the image) just to watch myself rdp you.

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.
  
  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?

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.
  
  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.
- 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.

HeinTz

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.
  
  We would do this to our teachers in school.
- Microsoft removing CTRL - ALT and arrrow to turn the screen is a crime.
  
  I thought that was video drivers. It was part of the Intel drivers when I did support ages ago. Students would be annoying about it in the labs.
  
  Wait, did they really? They made a fucking shortcut for LinkedIn but took this away?
  
  I was wondering why that didn't work... No fun allowed.
- You literally described every office, ever.
  
  I'm not going to assume my experience is universal.

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.
  
  havent tried plochmans but i will. for emergency widely available mustard i typically recommend frenchs dijon (NOT the "chardonnay" dijon)--it's been so long i don't even know if they make it anymore, but it should say something like "our boldest dijon ever" on the label
  usually i stick with colman's tins of just mustard flour and make it myself

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

Ghosts, she got ghosts in her drive
- Call the exorcist
- Don't bother them, they guard the Magic Smoke.
- I couldn’t help hearing that as “Ghosts got in her drive,” to the tune of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.”

Mustarrrrrd
- Mustard?

You've been yellow mustard-ed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGLmaBl7jQ

My work wallpaper includes a picture of a product called 8 HOT DOGS IN BRINE that @Trilobyte@feddit.uk posted a few weeks ago
- Soon everyone shall know about a product of the gods known as 8 HOT DOGS In Brine
  
  I'm looking forward to someone seeing it. Might have to fake an IT ticket

If Heather is the one using the computer, why is the director of finance writing a support request for her? Or did she actually write it herself, using the name of the director?
- Director of Finance: "Heather, why haven't you finished that finance report I asked for?"
  Heather: "Uhhhhh, well. My screen has a picture of mustard on it? Sooo I couldn't do it?"
  DOF: "That's ridiculous. Did you call IT?"
  Heather: "Ummm, yeah, sure, but you know, they said they'd get around to checking it out."
  DOF: "That won't do, I'll contact them for you, they'll listen to me on account of how important I am" (desperately hopes you acknowledge his "account" pun)
  Heather: "Oh, well, okay boss, thanks" (dammit I don't wanna do that fuckin report)
- What? Lmao
  Heather told her boss and her boss is contacting IT
- Heather is probably a nepo baby and cant send an email.

This calls for some old-school fuckery.
The Website is Down

Omgawd just change the desktop background I don't get it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c65AWl6hqAs
- I watched this without volume, but I could still hear it.