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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by BmeBenji@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

M$ already fucked that up for everybody calling GiB GB.

[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Cut to a younger me looking at HDDs in Walmart, and wondering why the fuck they were using much higher numbers than what the drive actually had. That's when I learned the difference, and started grow my hate for advertising bullshit.