The entire concept of new names for existing sizes makes me made (i.e. the "gibibyte")

I know how to read, you seem to lack the ability to comprehend or empathize with frustration.

My frustration is that rather than say "hey, computers don't operate in decimal so fuck you IBM stop manufacturing your storage as decimal" an entire council of people went "yeah we should just make new names and let manufacturers force decimal on a non decimal system"

anything with the root "byte" attached is going to be a binary term. That should be a basic and understood thing. That should be something a child can understand. But instead we decided "Joe Blow is too dumb to have to never think about the difference between 1024 and 1000"

if you want to argue that Gigabyte uses a metric prefix fine, then the word Gigabyte should never have existed in the first place. Acceptable but unfortunately too late. It does exist and it has a binary root word attached to that goddamn prefix.

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