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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -5 points 8 months ago

Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not

[-] Username@feddit.de 16 points 8 months ago

Other way round: prefixes that contain "bi" are binary, so 1024-based.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the "woke mob" is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -3 points 8 months ago

Bipolar is 1024 based?

Jokes aside, you're talking nonsense. 1024 based?

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I think they mean "based off of chunks of 1024", not "base 1024".

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