This is the recycle bin, not trash.
Apple apparently has the rights to call something "trash" and didn't like that windows was doing the same.
48 1 ReplyAs a British Mac user who upgraded to a new machine that could run a much newer macOS, I was surprised last year to discover that over here it’s now called the Bin.
8 0 ReplyDid you set the OS to UK English?
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Smart of them to patent the word people would otherwise use to describe them!
4 1 ReplyOver 70% of all recycling becomes standard trash but with a bigger carbon footprint. I also call recycling bins trash cans.
2 1 ReplyAnything talking about the evolution of the "Trash Can Icon" should be starting with the Apple version that Microsoft copied.
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In 2022 it was still Twitter.
38 0 ReplyFor almost everyone in the world it's still Twitter today. Nobody calls it X except Musk and Linda Y. Even the weird tech bros still call it Twitter.
20 0 ReplyEven Twitter calls itself Twitter. Almost as if they half-heartedly made the switch just to shut the boss's yap.
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Futures generations will call it x
1 9 ReplyImplying it will survive a generation
19 0 ReplyI still don't give enough shit to care how you refer to shit. X, Twitter or greatest propaganda machine, at the end of the day it's the same platform
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I like the 2006 icon. The round metal mesh can with the classic recycling icon speaks to the utilitarian in me.
30 0 ReplySame, and I liked the flair of 2001. Good ol' times.
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Okay, but that's the Recycle Bin tho.
And honestly, that's more accurate to reddit than Xitter anyway.
17 0 ReplyTrash? Don't you mean the folder where my uncle puts all his documents that he still needs?
14 0 ReplyTrash
Do you mean the Recycle Bin?
12 0 ReplyWrong year for Twitter.
9 0 Reply1995 --> 20 years later --> still the same icon
8 0 Reply2001 looks the coolest
8 0 ReplyThat is one thing I dislike about all of the modern OS's is the flat bland style. It's boring and completely unnecessary with modern hardware.
3 0 ReplyI like the 2006 one. But I'm biased I had a similar one irl
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i recently bought a new device so i had to install the fresh / current versions of my apps. very annoying because god the twitter icon looks like fucking garbage now
5 0 ReplyYou didn't have to install Twitter.
12 0 ReplyThe funniest thing about the renaming stunt is that it's still either called twitter, x/twitter, xitter or x formally known as twitter.
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The trash icon before: trash bin; The trash icon now: the OS as a whole
4 0 ReplyI miss the 2001 icon. Those silly times installing windows again and again every day.
4 0 Reply2001 was peak
3 1 Reply8 ) I love this. It's so true! I don't really understand why anyone would voluntarily join twitter or be a part of it anymore. It seems like a deliberate act of self sabotage and self hate.
2 0 ReplySome trash, as og icons suggested, can be recycled. Not Twatter tho.
1 0 ReplyCongrats, you have just mocked the easiest target of 2023, I hope you feel smart
4 9 ReplyI do, thanks
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