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

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months 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.

    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months 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.