Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
UEFI is a BIOS
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This used to bother me back when the distinction was meaningful and both options were possible. These days it’s like saying “Velcro” for hook-and-loop tape.
I am just gonna say BIOS in english because to this day i have no idea how to pronounce UEFI, fucking english...
/uefi/ in my language
I'd been saying BIOS for decades before UEFI became the norm. Yes, I know it's no longer BIOS. No, I don't care. As far as I am concerned, anyone pedantic enough to nitpick about it is doing me a favor. They are identifying themselves as someone I don't want to be around.
When it does matter, my pronunciation is "you-fee"
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Firmware
ÜFI
Uefefe
ooeffy
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...~~
isn't one of you named UEFI?
Uéfi. To try and sound it out for anglos, it'd come out sorta like "Weh-fee"
It works if you're a portuguese speaker
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“yeffy”
oofie