could you imagine explaining this to anyone

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The fourth symbol also means "environment loud enough that your shot won't be heard."

(At least in Sniper Elite ​)

@samhenrigold that image is missing the logo for hotspot :)

But then again, it is probably missing a dozen or more logos ;)

@samhenrigold oh, is it my turn to do laundry again?
@mtothevizzah @funnelfiasco @samhenrigold Would have been so much better if the commentary for the numbers actually made sense to... almost the whole world.
@samhenrigold I can't even imagine it being explained TO me. Like Jesus h Christ how did we let this happen
@samhenrigold Round my way we also use the "find something" one for ring-pull tin cans…
@samhenrigold the pain at realising I somehow know most of these
And then thinking HOWWWW
@yellowsink @samhenrigold because with all symbologies, we know them through context.
@samhenrigold UI designers imagine it every waking moment. they also scream every waking moment
@samhenrigold I'd probably get the wifi one.. have seen news feed, but it's not anything I use.. most have never even seen...lol
@samhenrigold And if we flip the "news feed," we'll get back to "Wi-Fi."
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Where is earth quake? Where is target? Why isn't one of these radiation?
@samhenrigold and now the same with arrows, the symbol for "stuff happens"
@simulo the disclosure chevrons?
@samhenrigold that's one of them. Can also mean "upload", "execute", "move thing", "move background"...

@samhenrigold Ooh, I like the pyramid broadcasting into space symbol, it's very Stargate-y.

The "share media w/someone" icon looks more like a sylised moon orbiting a planet than a person.

@samhenrigold Don't forget the logo of @fernunihagen (a german university)
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Also make sure to differentiate between "news feed (human-readable)" and "news feed (bare RSS XML, no it's not broken)"
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Two different directional wiggles for "real-time bus tracking" from @[email protected]:
@samhenrigold I thought they ALL stood for NFC
no fuckin' clue
@samhenrigold @Auxonic or "the arrows in a circle - no, the OTHER arrows in a circle"
@samhenrigold same energy as the privacy icon being a hand
@samhenrigold you literally just explained it in the picture
@samhenrigold I work for an ISP and I speak with at least three people a day who think the cell signal strength indicator on their phone is the wifi signal strength indicator
@samhenrigold no cuz these ain't standardized as per ISO.
@samhenrigold Human AOE attack patterns
@samhenrigold "Oh, that symbol means you have 5G, but it's the slower kind, not mmwave. And it's roaming. On a missile."
The fifth one is wifi but sideways. It's an important distinction
@samhenrigold Keep this going with motion sensor icons because it's like is the object vibrating, are they being hit with radio waves, does the object have cellular, etc. 🙃

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Isn't "also wifi?" used for IR comms?

@samhenrigold The second panel can also read as "audio" and if the curvy lines are on top of the phone it definitely means some sort of signal transmission.
@samhenrigold It's like that chart with the laundromat symbols