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I've been robbed! (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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…