Alot of people actually asked me “Why we get ~476GB storage when we buy 500GB HDD?” which is where I explain to them the base 2 math and Kilobytes means 1024 bytes not 1000 bytes…
But to use such wrong\fake math to represent storage in OSes is just… Wrong…
So yea… Apple Mac OS Sucks’ new approach is to follow the hard drive manufacturer’s fake math to show off bigger storage by applying base 10 math rather than the actual base 2 math…
This actually made me remember’s XKCD’s comic:
I’m quite sure that people here in Kuwait will dramatically call for this…
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