Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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U-E-F-I
You Aint Got No Alibi
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.
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?”
Yooo feeeee
I pronounce it “platform firmware”, or “firmware” when understood from context. When referring to specifically the part before it starts loading something else, “platform init code” and “init code”, respectively.
I would call it this way for the original iMac, a SPARC station, a Silicon Graphics station, a Chromebook (modded or not), a cell phone (init code etched into SoC as “stage 0”), a regular plain old x86 computer.
On second thought, I would absolutely call all of these “BIOS” as well except the cell phone example where it’s split.
I am sorry for the ad hominem but looking at OP’s moderation history…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.
Which operates the system
“yewfee”
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.
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?
It’s like the One Piece character’s name, “Luffy” but without the “L”.
“uffy”.
/s, I just spell it out.
i just do u-ef-i
That might be better that my wheefy
lol
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.
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Everyone says gooey, nobody I know has every said Gee You Eye.
It’s like Saytah, nobody is saying Ess Ay Tee Ay
Saytah‽ I’ve always said sahtah
Saytah
WTF? Its clearly saahhh taahhh
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!
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”
This whole snafu is fubar.
and what about BIOS ?
I say the letters U-E-F-I but often say BIOS interchangeably
