https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364321
Hector Martin <hec...@marcansoft.com> changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Hector Martin <hec...@marcansoft.com> ---
Yeah, it seems very silly that this regressed in KF5; SI units are a lot more
natural, are what storage media is marketed as, and also match data transfer
rates (a 1MB file takes 1 second to transfer at 8Mbps or 1MB/s). This should
absolutely be configurable, and I would go as far as saying SI units should be
the default. Power of two storage sizes have no useful meaning; beyond
sector/block sizes there is no power of two pattern. The only common quantities
that are still measured in powers of two are RAM sizes, and the only use case
for cross-referencing RAM sizes to file sizes is for things like VM suspend RAM
images. That's it.
(And I say this as someone who tinkers with hardware and kernels and deals with
things like 8 MiB Flash images all the time - I couldn't care less that those
are shown as 8.4 MB in directory listings. I know how to round down.)
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