My new band is called "1023 Megabytes"? We are very good.. we just don't have a gig yet
@lrau tell that to storage vendors. formatted capacity my ass.
@lrau gonna be a hard drive for your fans until you do then
@lrau Iโ€™m sure youโ€™ll land one in a bit
@lrau hashtag fediblock ๐Ÿ˜‚

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OY GEWALT

I will make great use of that today, thanks. Where should the royalty checks be sent?

@lrau That joke was old when Bletchley Park was built. ;-)

That said, I miss the old days where the computer peripherals contained useful information for writing drivers and knowledgeable humans responded to support tickets. Today you get someone who thinks a "serial port" is where sailors drop anchor for breakfast.

@lrau Iโ€™m just so happy to see this joke using the proper number! I nearly bashed my head on the wall when I saw it posted to FB as โ€œ999 MBโ€. ๐Ÿ˜ณ
@cjhubbs @lrau ironically, the FB meme is technically more correct. a gigabyte is defined as 1000MB, in turn 1000kB, 1000B. kiB, MiB, and GiB (kibi, mebi, and gibibytes) are the 1024.
@lrau There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those that understand binary, and those who don't.
@lrau Keep working at it. I'm sure you'll get that last 1024 megabytes and score a gig. ๐Ÿ™ƒโ€‹
@lrau @mrcompletely I heard The Zettabytes lost out on a yotta money!
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I can give you a Meg, if that helps.
@lrau You do! 1000 MB is one GB
@lrau *pushes glasses up nose* ackshually, that would be a gig and 23 megs. not quite a gibibyte yet though
@lrau this made me physically clench my fists with impotent rage
@lrau oh. Oh no. Oh you didn't? You did. Oh lord...
@lrau change the unit of measurement a bit โ€“ to โ€œbitโ€ โ€“ then you have more than 7 gigs. ๐Ÿ˜œ
@lrau @jonmasters โ€ฆgrumbling about โ€œmebibytesโ€ and โ€œgibibytesโ€โ€ฆ
@steve @lrau at least weโ€™re not pronouncing it jiggabytes, like a former colleague insisted on doing for years
@lrau Revise that to โ€œ999 megabytesโ€ and youโ€™ll get the bonus of randos appearing in the thread to incorrect you.
in pt_BR, laughing is often written down as a bunch of 'k' letters. the more letters, the more someone laughs. this one was worth about a million k.
just the amount you were missing?
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I hear the Hexadecimals are looking for an opening acts.