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Whenever you say "MiB" you are tacitly agreeing that marketing should decide the verbiage of computers, within the domain of computers.
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@mia that's literally what it is, that's the explicit reason. SI could have been like mathematicians adapting to non-Euclidean geometry and agree that base-2 kilo just makes more sense in a computing context, and instead they said: NO. IT HAS TO MEAN 1000. IT'S CONFUSING OTHERWISE
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Doesn't Microsoft just ignore the standard altogether? What a bunch of divas.
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@mia "My computer doesn't have enough mibibytes." - a statement never actually uttered except by deranged flashers with a humiliation fetish.
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I have a suspicion that it originally steps from metric brainrot, where priority of decimalization over experience started, eventually resulting in the hilarious retardism of "1000 is better than 1024, you need a new word."
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@pernia @apropos
Pernia, 5 is the average in inches, not centimeters. I'm sorry you had to find out this way, buddy. I'm here for you.
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@apropos @mia keep sucking your king's feet, freaks. the existance of chinese hard drive manufacturers doesn't make ur system any less retarded
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@mia @apropos 5 is way above average in any system. massive. uselessly big number
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