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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Accurate" is probably not the correct word anymore. It was when technical limitations dictated power-of-two capacities. Commodore 64 came out with 64 kiB = 2^16^ B of memory, and FAT32 cannot handle file sizes ≥4 GiB (2^32^ B). However, RAM/ROM/Flash chips manufacturers no longer make exclusively powers-of-two capacities, instead opting for (decinal) GB to save 7 % of the cost (and other fake capacity shenanigans). I prefer binary too but the two unit systems can coexist, people just need to label them correctly.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Ah I didn't know that