Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023

Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  nobody knows what an exabyte is so why would anybody use that?

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You really want to argue the standard for communication information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      looks like you answered your own question there bud

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      at that point what’s the difference?

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      • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ditch exabytes, return to bytes

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