Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : Nightfox
From : slacker
Date : Thu Apr 24 2025 07:50 am

In a tangentially related "old man yells at cloud" issue:

KB vs KiB, etc

For a good portion of my life I remember KB=1024 bytes. The past 10 years or so, its now KB bytes and a KiB is 1024 bytes.

I've come to terms with the change but I don't really like it.

At work, the legacy system I work on refers to storage in base 2 so a KB=1024 but interacts with newer services that are base 10 where KB=1000 so there's a headache of conversions.

Anyway, I don't really understand why that all changed. I've heard people mention HDD storage manufacturers using base 10 as marketing and it stuck but that seems like an odd reason to upend everything.

....that's the end of my rant on that. I'm probably wrong so take it with a grain of salt. lol



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