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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)

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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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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I always call it a gear.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Cogs are typically square tooth, gears have involute teeth.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The definition online says that the teeth of the gears are cogs, which I'd never heard of before.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Me neither. We were taught cogs were those janky gears for certain tasks, while a true gear had geometry for smooth engagment

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