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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by hkt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:28AM (#25643407)
Worth noting that's because their smallest operation can be a bit, whereas when it comes to storage that doesn't really make as much sense.
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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by tpxl on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:03AM (#25643599)
It also makes sense since it's the same as frequency, and historically with baud rates in the 10s and 100s it makes sense to not divide it by 8.
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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by lxgr on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:01AM (#25646193)
I'm pretty sure you can't transmit a single bit over any commercially available internet access technology that is metered by data.

It's really just convention.

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