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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • You’re not wrong- but when the change happened, it seemed to be around the time HDD manufacturers started taking flak for selling high capacity drives that didn’t match formatted capacity by larger and larger margins. OS level files sizes were always 2^n - it was a real PitA when Apple switched to base 10 for gui size reporting. I believe terminal utilities still measure file size in 1024 bytes.






  • It sounds like people in your workspace haven’t discovered opening multiple windows side by side.

    I’ve found people in the windows world often make everything full screen all the time- such a waste. You have a 40” 6k display and you open a single giant word doc.

    You could have 3 or more documents open side by side- or a webpage for reference, a notepad, and your work or 1000 other combinations.

    I do development work so my workflow is extremely text heavy, but it’s rare that I don’t have 4+ windows open simultaneously per display. I also use an old dell monitor I had laying around rotated 90 degrees as others mentioned for log monitoring or chat threads.

    I think people just need to get more creative using their space- it’s not the monitor’s fault if you don’t fill it with stuff.