Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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I pronounce it the way I was taught when earning my A+ cert ten years ago, "you-fee". This is how I've always heard it pronounced by other professionals. The only time I've heard it pronounced differently is by non-professionals.
That being said, I still use the term "BIOS" when referring to "the firmware interface" for the simple fact that if you call it a UEFI and it's a BIOS, someone will smugly correct you. Other way around, nobody bats an eye.
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I thought about referring to her when describing the pronunciation but decided to go with something more universally understood (and I'm sure at least on person thinks it rhymes with "yuppie").
But I do appreciate the reference.
I don't. Would you care to explain please? I've seen this character posted a number of times in this thread.
The character is Yuffie Kisaragi from 'Final Fantasy VII', a JRPG game for PS1 from 1997 with astonishing staying power. I'm guessing the recent-ish quasi-remakes for PS4 have something to do with that, but FF7 has been in popular culture for the last thirty years pretty much non-stop.
Thank you. Yuffie is the joke. Apart from a stab at ff X on a friend's PS2 I've never got into those types of games.
This breaks down for professionals that are self taught though. For example, I still to this day, say in my head "F-Stab " for fstab, instead of "F-S-Tab", and various other terms I learned when i was learning linux myself when I was 13. Didn't understand at the time that it stood for filesystems table, so f-stab is how I pronounced the term in my head. In the UEFI case, I'll just pronounce each letter at a time, U-E-F-I.
How do you pronounce fsck?
F-sec
ef es check
lame
Give it time. "tracert" used to be "tray-cert" in my mind for the longest.
I'm saying βtrace-ertβ inside my mind, simply because that 's way cooler that βtrace routeβ or whatever.
Its been over 20 years, lol f-stab ain't going anywhere.
Depends on the OS for me. Tracert is the way you say it, trace route is the way I say traceroute.
nginx, "ing - inks" I'm terrible at license plate puns, too.
I still pronounce it βn-jinxβ even though I know now thatβs wrong.
That's how everyone pronounces it in Russian, the native language of Igor Sysoev.
nginx rhymes with eugenics.
You're not wrong, but Jesus...
Being inside my mind is a curse, I admit. Also, I am technically wrong. According to their marketing page, itβs βengine xβ.
like the guys that say interpreter and the other guys that say interpreter
I know it's file system tab. Don't care I WILL fucking stab this piece of shit. Stupid cursed file.
If it helps, I worked at a BIOS company on one of the early UEFI firmwares (with Intel, who created the thing!) and we called it U-E-F-I, and same also at the major PC vendor I later worked for.
Much later I really cringed the first time I heard someone from MS say yoo-fi, but I've had to come around π So I personally blame M$!
No worries that I'll ever fuss at you over BIOS vs UEFI unless we're dealing with a bootloader. Just make sure you have your boot order set right, and your secure boot settings the way you like (assuming UEFI), and the bootstrap fairy will bring your OS π§‘
They missed an opportunity to call it yiffi
Wiffee and saytuh irritate the shit out of me too.