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    [–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I'm sorry to be the one who breaks this to you but linux is as binary as you can get. Ever wondered what 64 bit means? Bits are quite binary, that's kind of the definition

    [–] cholesterol 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

    Afterwards you will be running a 63bit system. I challenge you to find the others.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    With the introduction of the number 2, we goin' TRINARY!

    Fun fact, the reason internet speeds are measure in Bits, not Bytes, is that 8 bits to a Byte is entirely arbitrary and could be changed if there was will to do so.

    [–] A_Random_Idiot 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    internet speeds are measured in bits so they can artificially inflate numbers.

    cause selling 100mbit sounds a lot meatier than selling 12mbyte.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

    100 milibits lmao

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    I mean, yeah. That too.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

    Not quite, network speeds have been measured in bps since the day the first packet got out of its egg.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    the only realistic reason i can think of this, is to describe over the wire speed. Shits easy enough to convert once you hit the end point though, so meh.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Not really. It's easier to measure a count of a thing than it is to measure a count of groups of 8 of a thing. It's just easier to display when you're not wasting the cycles to devide it by 8 all the time.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Build from source tho

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    64bit... no wonder there are complaints about too many genders.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    Linux on an analog computer

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    i prefer my binaries to stay inside the computer. binary does not belong in brain >n<