• accideath@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While macOS did indeed primarily switch to KiB, MiB and Gib, it does at times still report storage as KB, MB, GB, etc., however it uses the (correct) 1000B = 1KB

    And afaik, Linux also uses the same (correct) system, at least most of the time.

    The only real outlier is Windows, which still uses the old system with KB = 1024B, some of the time. In certain menus, they do correctly use KiB

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      11 months ago

      Please note that kilo is a small k. n, μ, m, k, M, G, T, …

      And yes. A lot of people here get at least one of those wrong.

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        11 months ago

        While you are correct, I know no operating system that doesn’t capitalize the K. At the very least not consistently.

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            11 months ago

            I guess it’s for consistency. M, G and T are all capital and n, p or μ aren’t relevant for bits and bytes. Makes sense to also capitalize the k.

            Edit: In case of kbps and Mbps, the capitalization is usually correct though…