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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just checked and my Android phone does indeed make the same error. Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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…