I don’t know why the meme has the highest IQ person say

Every time I see the midwit meme format, it reads like OP imagines that they're the 145 IQ guy who is above it all, when all other evidence suggests that they're closer to the 55 IQ guy.

I want to agree with you two, because I hate competing standards, but you gotta admit gigabyte was a poor choice from the start because it took the SI prefix and made it mean something else. Creating Gibi is just correcting that mistake

Because there are other things that change usable space, like file tables, OS stuff, and bad sectors. The unit conversion is the biggest one, but not the only one.

I want to agree with you, but the war is lost. Giga is billion and Gibi is 2^30

No other contributors, just a lot of work in a short time, huge commit sizes and a teeny tiny agents.md file.

they probably don't but i also doubt they're doing much with that data, while discord actively has corporate investors.

Wow, low bar, like derailing subway trains, and yet, I agree.

To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the "discord killers" lacked functioning e2e encryption...

fastfetch output :

Disk (/): 203.45 GiB / 224.94 GiB (90%) - ext4
Disk (/media/skullgrid/Data): 684.44 GiB / 913.43 GiB (75%) - fuseblk

I didn't realise that Linus Torvalds changed his name...

... unless you think I specifically went out and bought a laptop that advertised a 913.43 GiB secondary drive?

came here to post the same but since you already did i had to fix the image:

Not with that attitude.

..that was my response to seeing the thing I linked in the description of the post. Bit rude innit?

Which itself is for marketing reasons, a manufacturer would find it difficult to compete with others using units that make their drives look larger or cheaper at "same capacity".

There is also the smaller amount w!ndows will secretly waste for its own pleasure (few GiB iirc). And an even smaller amount that gets wasted in partitioning. Usually around 5MiB, you can reduce it to 16kiB with some manual configuration in gdisk, or you can skip partition tables entirely for some end-game cursedness. And then the filesystem will take some. ext4 takes based on the number of inodes, for large drives that can be tens of GiB. Btrfs takes almost nothing (though in the background allocates in steps of 1GiB, so some tools might show 2GiB used as soon as data is written). Then if you try to sum all files on disk, that will land even lower for many more reasons.

I'm guessing that IDK is for why they write it as GB and not GiB

Seeing your nickname for the first time some years ago I thought it'd be funny if it's a reference to Cassiopeia A, as it's a remnant of a supernova that contains iron oxide.

I dunno why someone edited this xkcd to specifically mention AI when the original covers all bases.

Here's the original.

Depends on the file system. If you are using FAT-8; it is 256:1 if you are on ZFS it is as low as 1:4.

It also depends on composition of the data stored. If it is Linux ISOs; it is 4GB:64KB. If it is old C source code; it is 512B:4KB on ext4

Because back in the 1980s RAM chips were individually sold and the number of address pins exactly matched the 2^(# of pins) amount of memory addresses contained in the chip (for cost savings purposes) and only with the later column strobe addressing DRAM did that change but at that point they couldn’t deviate from the 1024 standard without getting sued (a couple did and went out of business).

And since the RAM chips themselves are stuck using 1024 and the RAM sticks are made of matching RAM chips (for cost and performance reasons); it will remain that way until people start buying systems on a chip with embedded RAM.

really? i had two 1tb drives (different model) and for some reason their size was slightly different and one was smaller (as in a few bytes?) so i had to shrink the partition size to dd the data over.

and they never explain why i would use them over the more established matrix or fluxer (especially that fluxer now has federation for 2027 on their roadmap)

Well it is too bad the Windows sucks. If only they had the money to make a proper OS that gives you the option to switch from binary to decimal like in Linux.

I would still trust discord over a newly popped up slop project

they don't even have e2ee for DMs, and are most likely feeding your messages to LLMs