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 threadsamus12345Mar 28, 2025
I always call it a gear.
Show threadBCsvenMar 29, 2025
Cogs are typically square tooth, gears have involute teeth.
Show threadsamus12345
The definition online says that the teeth of the gears are cogs, which I’d never heard of before.
Mar 30, 2025 at 2:57amWeb
Show threadBCsvenMar 30, 2025
Me neither. We were taught cogs were those janky gears for certain tasks, while a true gear had geometry for smooth engagment