Metric prefixing should only be used with the unit bit. There is no confusion there. I mean, if you would equate a bit with a certain voltage threshold, you could even argue about fractional bits.

Approximating metric prefixing with kibi, Mibi, Gibi... is confusing because it doesn't make sense semantically. There is nothing base-10-ish about it.

I propose some naming based on shift distance, derived from the latin iterativum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals#Adverbial_numer...

* 2^10, the kibibyte, is a deci (shifted) byte, or just a 'deci'

* 2^20, the mibibyte, is a vici (shifted) byte, or a 'vici'

* 2^30, the gibibyte, is a trici (shifted) byte, or a 'trici'

I mean, we really only need to think in bytes for memory addressing, right? The base doesn't matter much, if we were talking exabytes, does it?