Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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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
Which operates the system
Common misconception, it actually stands for Basic Initial Operating System /s
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
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.
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
Yeah, I mean. It’s just a Basic Input/Output System.
Actually, in the Boot Services stage, UEFI can do a lot of things, like providing file systems (though only FAT32 is guaranteed), keyboard and mouse input, video output …
ÜFI
meanwhile flashing the bios is still called flashing the bios
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.
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)
You-ee-ef-eye
Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?
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.
Is that just a style pose, or does she have back problems from carrying that. Is that what the arm guard is for? To rebalance her weight?
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.
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.
When describing the boot process, bios. When configuring some CPU or memory setting, bios. When talking about some specific boot menu config, uefi.
Doesn’t a UEFI provide a system for basic input and output?
So by that metric, isn’t a UEFI, by default, also a BIOS?
I mean, very technically speaking, it’s a set of standards for booting and it doesn’t give a shit how platform init is implemented. “a UEFI” usually means the whole thing, so yes. Usually.
“yewfee”
Now that’s antisemitic
Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason
