Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week agoat that point what’s the difference?
Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week agoat that point what’s the difference?
scholar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of
Mac@mander.xyz 6 days ago
I guarantee you that most people still don’t know what a terabyte is. gigabytes, probably…
anyway all I’m saying is that a headlines goal is to reach and be understood by as many people as possible so obviously they’re not going to use something that nobody knows, like exa, peta, and terabytes.
I think most people have a general feeling for how much a megabyte is because most of the things that we deal with are sized in megabytes.
Strykker@programming.dev 6 days ago
But a hell of a lot more people will know what a gigabyte is compared to an exabyte, even I had to think for a few seconds to figure out what scale exabyte was compared to what I know, and I work with computer hardware everyday.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 days ago
yes, that’s what i said