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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've never seen an icon of a single cog. Multiple cogs on a hub forming a gear, sure, but never just a cog.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Huh? The single cog is the standard for settings menus. Just looking at three random apps on my phone, they all had single cog icons.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    cog
    noun
    ˈkäg
    1 : a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear

    Can you share an image of what you describe as a single cog?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It can also be used to mean a singular cogged wheel

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    It’s splitting hairs, but that would technically be a cogwheel. The actual cogs would be the teeth around the wheel.

    If you have a cogwheel with a broken cog, it would be accurate to say “the cogwheel is missing a cog.” That doesn’t mean the entire wheel is missing from the system; The system is only missing a single tooth.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My bad, I was using gear and cog interchangeably. Didn't realize it could also mean just a tooth.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up cog in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

    A cog is a tooth of a gear or cogwheel or the gear itself.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    If you have an android phone, the settings icon is a cog.

    Edit: 🙄

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    To be precise, that’s a cogwheel. There are six cogs around the cogwheel in your image. The word “cog” refers specifically to the teeth around the wheel, not the wheel itself. The cogwheel may be colloquially called a cog, but it’s technically inaccurate; If you told a watchmaker that their watch was missing a single cog, it would have a very different meaning than if you told them it was missing a single cogwheel.

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