I’ve seen it a few times now and I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.

For that matter, I don’t know what it’s supposed to mean period.

  • teft
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    4010 months ago

    I see a modern car wheel on Memmy iOS.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      So far, we’ve got an old fashioned spoke wheel, a modern car wheel and a bunch of lines. What the heck?

    • @nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1010 months ago

      The Unicode standard just specified a “wheel”. A particular amusing (read: drama inducing) case is with the 🔫 emoji: Unicode specified it as “Pistol”, but depending on your font (and version), it can either appear as a water gun, or a musket or revolver.

      Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), all major vendors have now switched over to a water gun, so no more amusing forum threads cases by the different meanings.

      So in addition to the interpretation being unclear, there is also no real standard for emoji.

    • Orbital
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      Same in Jerboa for Android.

      Yes, I’m aware this may differ depending on your specific brand of Android phone. 🤷

  • @redcalcium
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    https://emojigraph.org/wheel/

    Displayed as a classical wooden wheel for a dray or modern car wheel with a tire depending on the platform. May be used in the context of “reinventing the wheel.”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      1010 months ago

      That is so weird. And I just tried it on Firefox and got this:

      So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

      Don’t hate, I have to have Chrome for work and it’s a pain to run two separate browsers. I’ll end up doing that eventually when my adblockers no longer work though.

      • Muehe
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        1610 months ago

        So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

        Neither really, it’s a font thing. I see a wooden wheel in the page title, a car wheel in my tab bar, and it’s missing in the window title.

      • @Kissaki@feddit.de
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        1010 months ago

        It works fine in Firefox.

        Screenshot of the headline with wheel emoji rendered in Firefox

        Inspecting it, here on my instances Feddit.de rendered theme shows two fonts in use - a fallback for the emoji because I assume Lato does not include it:

        Screenshot of headline fonts being used

      • teft
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        310 months ago

        It’s gotta be a mac thing. I switched to my desktop browser which is firefox on win10 and it shows as the car wheel like on ios.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          010 months ago

          It appears to be a Mac and Chrome thing. I tried Firefox and posted a screenshot of that elsewhere and it is a missing image thumbnail.

  • @Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1810 months ago

    Appears to be an old fashioned wooden spoke wheel. A cart wheel, as in, the wheel of an old cart. Connotations would presumably be mostly related to “rolling”.

  • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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    1710 months ago

    It is the special group club for advanced Linux users. Like Disney’s Club 33. You have to know Pam, offer hash, and keep a secret shadow file to get in.