Reminder that 2^10 B = KiB 10^3 B = KB

^_^

>>61980581
> scare quotes

>>61980581
This is correct.

Reminder, you don't have to fix it like Apple either (changing software to show 10^3 so KB is used correctly) - GNUCore Utils, SystemD, BSD utils, etc just changed the string to KiB/MiB/GiB etc - one time source change and it's fixed forever.

>>61980632
>KiB/MiB/GiB
The problem with that is that NOBODY is going to call/pronounce them Kibi and Mebi and Gibi and Tebi etc. because they sound dumb and retarded.

Base 2 prefixes were a mistake. There was literally no reason to establish the 1024 B = 1 KB connection in the first place, it was just a meme by some retarded faggots in the 80s that got out of hands.

>>61980581
Fuck yourself. 10 is used due to easily scaling for higher magnitudes like mb gb tb
This issue is practically irrelevant.

>>61980904
>NOBODY
I do.

Adobe, AMD, Intel etc all use 1024B = 1KB.

Hell even Apple uses it.

>idiots that fell for the HD maker bullshit that allowed them to advertise bigger sizes than they actually were
If you use KiB and think a KB is a power of 10, you fell for a fucking marketing scam of the highest caliber and shouldn't be using fucking computers.

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>>61981353
macOS Finder uses 1000 Byte = 1 kB
Intel uses SI binary prefixes all over their website and in design documents

>>61980581
Remainder that
2^10 B = KB
10^3 B = KiB

>>61980606
>using smiley with carat eyes

>>61981425
>all over their website
O just looked up my CPU. It says 3 MB cache. So that's only 1,000,000 B? Fucking Jewtel, I knew it.

>>61980904
>refusing to use a unit of measurement because it sounds stupid
What is wrong with you? That is such a pointlessly stupid thing to have an opinion of.

>>61982053
Because I can only imagine Stallman saying something like that.

>Let me interject for a moment. What you are referring to as megabyte is in fact mebibyte, or as I have recently taken to calling it mega binary byte.

>>61980904
Holy shit, you don't want to use a standard mesure because it's sounds bad? What kind of sub-human are you?

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>>61981425
>macOS

Except they don't.

If Apple were consistent, then the ram info would say 17.18 GB or 16 "GiB"

So Apple is WRONG

>>61980581
>Changing the meanings of words to protect normie feelings

>>61982870
Kilo meant 10^3 for centuries, long before computers were even invented.

>>61982931

>words can't have more than 1 meaning
>implying kilo and kilobyte are the same word

>being a literal retard

>>61982931
crap, is /g/ as retard as this? IT'S NOT EVEN THE SAME NOTATION

>>61980904
>>61980581

Triggered, its because there are 8 bits in a byte, 1111 1111 and this goes from 0 to 1024 before. 1024 isnt just some random number pulled from their ass

>>61983260
>hurr durr
Yes, and base 2 is important that it gets its very own prefixes: Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, ...

You're in a very special class of retard if this has caused any confusion.