Ditch exabytes, return to bytes
Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
Skydancer@pawb.social 3 months ago
Americans used just over 100
trillion megabytesexabytes of wireless data in 2023
Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You really want to argue the standard for communication information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
looks like you answered your own question there bud
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t know… I can’t answer what you’re trying to argue. That’s your hill to defend if you want to.
scholar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
at that point what’s the difference?
scholar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of