On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory modules: alignment requirements, maximum sizes of files and devices, size of stripes, they are all based on powers of two.
Baloney. People who need to worry about those things are/should be doing that programatically and absolutely do not "need" GiB for anything at all, certainly not for display. For everyone else, basically all the time and in every situation, power of ten units make more sense. The entire computing world has been saddled with this "but a computer kilobyte is really" nonsense far too long, and it actively hurts UX for everyone other than the vanishingly small set of people who won't shut up about how important it is to keep that anachronism.
