Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason
I like UEFI because of the way it sounds. I bet most non-native English speakers agree on it’s pronunciation.
You Eee Eff Eye
This one
Uwee feee
You’re 100% correct.
But I’m gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.
It does seem to serve the same purpose, an “OS” under the OS so 🤷
I don’t think the OS is the same in BIOS. It is “Basic Input Output System”
Seems like it should be BI/OS, then, haha.
Something something bi erasure
Common misconception, it actually stands for Basic Initial Operating System /s
Which operates the system
U-E-F-I
You Aint Got No Alibi
BIOS sounds good. It’s got that cold hard logic stamped steel ring to it.
“We’ve got the update the BIOS”. Okay. Everyone understands that.
The BIOS boots before the OS. Got it.
“Make sure to configure your UEFI”
“My what?”
Your use of “everyone” is a nice example of xkcd 2501
meanwhile flashing the bios is still called flashing the bios
I think BIOS has just morphed into meaning the firmware interface, nobody calls it UEFI. Everyone does indeed just say BIOS, which is okay. You can be more specific when it matters, which is basically never in the mass market.
Yeah, I mean. It’s just a Basic Input/Output System.
Like asking for a bandaid. Everyone knows what you mean, and asking for one and getting a generic bandage isn’t going to matter.
ADHESIVE MEDICAL STRIP
In America. Bandaid is not a word outside there, what is it? A brand name?
Yes, a name brand of adhesive bandage, just like Kleenex or Velcro or Xerox.
A “plaster” in the uk
Yet it’s named in such a way, people maybe would be able to guess what it is
Yet if you guessed bandage, that’s not an actual bandage is it? From the other comments, I’ve learned it’s a ‘plaster’ or adhesive dressing.
I think, I saw it in some movie or heard about it already, so I am not representative of this. If you guessed a different thing, I was wrong and it can’t be inferred, as in the same way a seller may guess wrong
U-E-F-I
Ué fí(o)
Or just uefi.
üfi, got it.
EUGH, that’s like a whole extra SYLLABLE
(but this is also how I say it)
Lately I’ve been bending people’s names in cursive writing style out of coathanger wire.
The last name I made, I did not post. Why? I have no clue how to pronounce it…
Ogbuefi
You-ee-ef-eye
Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?
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I do say gooey though. Because it’s easy to pronounce and has an existing English equivalent homophone.
UEFI does not.
I also say Wizzy Wig.
And usually I say sequel instead of SQL. Though I think I switch back and forth with that one, probably based on context, but I can’t explain when or why now that I’m trying to think about it.
The prevent pronunciation of SQL as “sequel” is probably a result of it being frequently paired with an actual word, like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Or the fact that saying “M-S-S-Q-L” is a pronunciation obstacle course.
It’s actually because that’s the original pronunciation. It was SEQUEL, the sort-of successor to the QUEL QUEry Language. The shortening to SQL came later.
Ok thanks. MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL are all cases when I actually say S - Q - L.
I say sequel when I use sqlplus, sqldeveloper, SQLServer.
Gooey is ubiquitous though.
I only every hear people say that, or “graphical user interface”, never “GUI”
What does lowercase have to do with anything?
The only thing that differentiates an acronym from an initialism is if it’s easily pronounceable as a word.
GUI is. GIF is. PDF is not. NASA is, NSA is not. SCUBA is. LASER is. FBI, ATM, URL, FYI are not.
That’s really it. UEFI doesn’t have a real direct pronunciation to it. So it’s just U-E-F-I.
I’ve heard a couple people seriously pronounced URL as Earl. Everybody gave them a what the fuck look.
Those are the same people that write “squeal” queries to get results out of a database.
Yeah, that’s madness. First of all it’s sequel.
Second, fun fact, it’s a backronym! SQL came after a cease and desist for calling it SEQUEL, such that it could be pronounced the same.
So yes, you can totally say Sequel instead of S-Q-L, it’s even historically accurate to do so!
This whole snafu is fubar.
and what about BIOS ?
Everyone says gooey, nobody I know has every said Gee You Eye.
It’s like Saytah, nobody is saying Ess Ay Tee Ay
I say gee-u-eye instead of gooey because I pronounce UI as u-eye
Saytah‽ I’ve always said sahtah
American accent vs British in peripherals
Saytah
WTF? Its clearly saahhh taahhh
American accent vs British in peripherals
That’s what I’ve always done, though someone mentioned their native language being the conflict, so maybe in other languages the E sound is better marked with an i for some, no idea.
systemctl reboot --firmware-setupThis will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI. I know it’s not groundbreaking but it can be really handy if you use fast-boot. At least your days of pecking the Delete key during POST will be over.
Windows does this too, though I’ve forgotten the method.
This will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI.
That’s weird, on my machine it reboots me directly into the BIOS.
Sidenote: if you dualboot, I can’t recommend enough setting up a desktop entry which runs this command:
systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=auto-windowsIt’s basically a one-click Windows launcher.
I tried it but nothing happened. Mainly because I wouldn’t let Windows touch bare metal anymore for anything.
And even if I was dead in the ground would I rise again if someone tried to insert Windows into my usb-holes
Sidenote: if you dualboot, I can’t recommend enough setting up a desktop entry which runs this command:
Excuse my ignorance, but what’s the difference between this and GRUB?
You have to interrupt the boot process to make a selection in grub, the one-liner above makes that one-time selection for you in advance. So you can walk away and get a coffee while your computer does the OS switch.
They don’t have to time it. It’s a full blown second industrial revolution
I mean, unless you’re trying to access it at boot time. I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and hit an F button or look it up.
Actually, your instruction complicates it. Just put it on the boot splash, ffs.
Handy thanks
When describing the boot process, bios. When configuring some CPU or memory setting, bios. When talking about some specific boot menu config, uefi.
Uweee Eff Aye I met a girl online that literally called it Uni Extee Feee because it rhymed and sounded better to her and it drove the other techs she knew crazy.
Wifey that woman!
Would that I could… she was already taken.
