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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

1kB is 1000B you are using KiB which Windows to this day calls KB -.-

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in "kb", but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The "kb" would be 1000 bits.