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I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I was leaning 1,024 but it looks like macOS and Windows both define KB as 1,000 these days I want whatever people are most likely to understand (I do not think most people know what KiB or MiB means)

It means 1000 bytes. `k` is an SI prefix (correct capitalisation is `kB`, not `KB`). 1024 bytes is a KiB. Maybe your users don't know what it means, but using the wrong label just perpetuates their ignorance. It starts to make a big difference once we're in the TB/TiB or PB/PiB range…

It's not ignorance just because I refuse to adhere to some bs convention a bunch of European blowhards are trying to ram down my throat.