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Same with every average ISP customer. 1GB/s down and 1Gb/s up sounds like the same thing. ISPs expect customers to know the difference the same way Tesla pretends everyone knows airplane autopilot is just a speed and vector system

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litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s for this reason that I sometimes spell out the units as: 1000 GBytes/sec or 1000 Gbits/sec. In my book, Byte is always “big B” and bit is always “little b”, and then spelling it out makes it unambiguous in writing.

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In the world of phone keyboards doing whatever the fuck they want with autocorrecting capitalizations, that is effective (assuming they’re equally trained to accept both words and don’t autocorrect Gbits to GBytes)
  
  Lol, who down voted your comment though? Why? Best I can do is bring it back to 1 point.
  
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  - litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I habitually remove the automatic +1, so I won’t feel self-aggrandizing haha
    
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