Comment on Correct Grindr Response

• lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How is it a weird number? Its 2**9

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    HDDs have generally been dec round numbers rather than binary

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    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe but its still not a weird number in this context :p

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I feel like for HDDs it is. In general it is not. The even weirder thing is that HDD sizes are expressed in decimal gigabytes to inflate the numbers. A 500 GB drive will show as around 480 in some operating systems.

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