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Who even uses Celsius (programming.dev)

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[–] dustojnikhummer 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nope. Electronics is one industry where imperal still wins for some reason

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

I remember buying TVs in centimeters. It was a thing. Monitors have been imperial as long as I can remember, but TVs were metric. They only switched when they got bigger for whatever reason.

[–] dustojnikhummer 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm Czech and our TVs were also sold in centimeters back in the day when a 32inch was huge. Weirdly, some retailers still mention both. You would have inches in the description but the image of the TV would have it in cm

[–] dustojnikhummer 1 points 2 years ago

I honestly don't. I know how big a 7inch phone is, how big a 55inch TV is, but otherwise I got no clue how long an inch is.

[–] Fosheze 1 points 2 years ago

I still don't get why. I worked in an electronics factory in the US and we measured everything in metric. The only exception was wire strip lengths for some reason.