For people who want to know why - it makes the pronunciation less ambiguous for non-English speakers, since the NATO Alphabet was developed for use by English, French, and Spanish speakers.

You don’t punch a hole through it so you can put it horizontally? For shame.

Binary prefixes are stupid and unnecessary. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000, not 1024, I don’t care because it’s obvious from context. RAM manufacturers know what’s up - I’ve never seen the word “gibibyte” or “GiB” written on a stick of RAM.

I also hate these stupid bandwagon pet peeves:

Pineapple on pizza is great and if you disagree you don’t have to eat it.

There’s nothing inherently gross about the word “moist”.

Toilet paper orientation doesn’t matter at all.

“Have you tried just not having anxiety?”

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.

Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.

If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.