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Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?

They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that

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[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How do you pronounce fsck?

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Ideally, I pronounce it "Libreboot."

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

U-E-F-I You ain’t got no alibi You ugly Eh! Hey! You ugly!

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Oo-Eh-Fee or in normal notation: all vowels are pronounced the normal Italian way U-E-FI

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (7 children)

fuck UEFI, it was a solution to a problem that Microsoft and all the tech oligopolies made up.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

what if i tell you someone got DOOM on a UEFI shell

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[–] freespirits@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I say the letters U-E-F-I but often say BIOS interchangeably

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yoo-e-ef-eye you heathen.

But in all seriousness, yeah...

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In French we just say UEFI.

(ok without joke, we say it letters by letters, they all sound different)

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[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

It's like the One Piece character's name, "Luffy" but without the "L".

"uffy".

/s, I just spell it out.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bunified Ixtensible OEM-firmware interfaSe

it's really quite simple. The B is silent because it is French.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the initializer for the bootloader for the bootstrapper for the initializer for the service manager.

…how did we get there?

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You-ayy-fee

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