Submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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.
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.”
That is so weird. And I just tried it on Firefox and got this: Image
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.
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.
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:
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.
You need better fonts.
Am I the only one who thought ‘Dharma Wheel’?
Hah, me too!
You can sell stolen wagons there.
Haha unexpected Red Dead Remption
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.
Debbie can introduce you to Pam. She likes pie.
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”.
If your OS doesn’t support the emoji, it shows an empty or placeholder image. If you see that icon, you can copy it to clipboard and paste to search here: emojipedia.org
I see a box with a cross in the middle, as in the icon for “unsupported icon” . I imagine it’s the same for you.
I don’t think so, I see an old spoke wheel on Android running Liftoff.
Rolling as in ROFL?
I mean there is a ROFL emoji already: 🤣
I hope it’s related to drugs.
Looks like a carriage wheel to me
An secretive elite group of users rumored to be able to obtain the great power of root.
maybe like a settings wheel?
teft@startrek.website 1 year ago
I see a modern car wheel on Memmy iOS.
orbital@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Same in Jerboa for Android.
WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Liar, Jerboa on Android is showing an old wooden wheel.
zepheriths@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s an old wagon wheel on Motorola, come on man, you have to know there is more than one android phone
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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.