Provide an option to use IEC system

[pgilad]

would you be willing to accept a PR for that?

[sindresorhus]

No. It's intentionally option-less. I feel base-10 is the right way to display sizes for humans.

You're of course free to use any of the other file size prettifiers if you disagree :)

[pgilad]

great... thanks anyway 😄 I feel the same way, but sometimes product managers feel otherwise

[MartinMuzatko]

We feed in the information from the npm package systeminformation Which uses df which uses base 2 - 1024.

It would be nice to have this configurable, because the rest of the pretty-bytes package is working wonderfully.

But eh, it is your package. So you decide.

[lmcarreiro]

No. It's intentionally option-less. I feel base-10 is the right way to display sizes for humans.

Have you thought about adding the option to show base 2, but with the right units that nobody uses? kiB, MiB, GiB, ...

This would help people to understand that 1 kB is actually 1000 B and not 1024 B