BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-squaremessage-square266fedilinkarrow-up1395
arrow-up1395message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square266fedilink
minus-squareMatombo@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months ago1kB is 1000B you are using KiB which Windows to this day calls KB -.-
minus-squareSibbo@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoLinux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in “kb”, but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The “kb” would be 1000 bits.
1kB is 1000B you are using KiB which Windows to this day calls KB -.-
Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in “kb”, but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The “kb” would be 1000 bits.