Comment on everything actually important is already metric

• accideath@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a diagonal measurement so it’s literally only useful for comparing screens.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As long as they’re the same ratio 🤪

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.

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• 30p87@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rims are also commonly referred to in inches, at least in germany. But just as with screen sizes, it’s 50/50 with cm, the latter being more useful especially with screens.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The wheel is in inches but the tires are in metric!

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least in the United States, tire sizes are a goofy mixture of the two, plus an indirect measurement.

      A 205/75R15 tire is 205mm wide bead to bead, fits a 15 inch diameter rim, and is 153.75mm from bead to tread (75% of its width).

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, the measurement system is the same everywhere and you need the wheel size somewhere in there, but the size of the tire (if you were to take a slice of its profile) is in metric.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It makes sense as an Inch is a good measurement for that. You aren’t going to use mm or meters

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  • yopla@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ’ is feet, " is inches.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TV sizes in Europe are in cm.

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