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It's bloat (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Spreading the word of IEC units: it's "1.46 TiB" and "200 MiB" btw.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

You can pry binary-based terabytes from my cold dead hands

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

Except when it is actually decimal

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that why IEC units carry only one meansing. It's all that stupid JEDEC that standardized SI units to binary multiples. Dumbest shit I've ever seen.

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

When you make up new words - see 'fetch' - you can decide it means everything you want.

Doesn't mean that validating hard drive vendors' scams is somehow right to do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Which scams? HDD/SSD AFAIK use SI units so that checks out for me.