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this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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It should have been sorted by penis.
"there is no arrange by penis option"
What was that called already? Can't remember the name!
The website is down.
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…
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 + x
Happens to me all the fucking time.
Because you obviously need a shortcut to set a wallpaper lmao.
"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 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
This is almost guaranteed to be correct.
*typo
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.
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.
You know they have one of those calculators on their desk with the spool of paper so they can check the math.
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