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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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[–] 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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