n7gifmdnMar 28, 2025

Zoomers & Boomers are the same

https://lemmy.ca/post/41402040

Zoomers & Boomers are the same - Lemmy.ca

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 [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b0399309-b7a3-433d-8de2-c7599ec36f10.png]

Show threadAHorseWithNoNeighMar 28, 2025
Training some younger people at work: “click the cog in the corner to pull up the settings”. “What’s a ‘cog’?”
Show threadSpaceNoodleMar 28, 2025
I’ve never seen an icon of a single cog. Multiple cogs on a hub forming a gear, sure, but never just a cog.
Show threadrigattiMar 28, 2025
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.
Show threadSpaceNoodle

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?

Mar 28, 2025 at 6:31pmWeb
Show threadlagoon8622Mar 28, 2025
It can also be used to mean a singular cogged wheel
Show threadSpaceNoodleMar 28, 2025
Not according to the dictionary, or my masterful command of English
Show threadmic_check_one_twoMar 28, 2025

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 that the cogwheel is missing a cog. That doesn’t mean the entire wheel is missing from the system; It is only missing a single tooth.

Show threadrigattiMar 28, 2025

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.