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UEFI cannot be disabled. The "disable" UI is a big fat fucking lie by morons who think everyone else is a moron, therefore they concoct big fat fucking lies lik
by cmurf 10y ago
UEFI cannot be disabled. The "disable" UI is a big fat fucking lie by morons who think everyone else is a moron, therefore they concoct big fat fucking lies like this one.
What they've done with the "disable" option is enable a compatibility support module for UEFI to present a faux-BIOS to the operating system. The point of a CSM was to provide backward compatibility to legacy operating system that have no idea how to talk to UEFI, but can interface with BIOS.
So all you're doing is using UEFI and also a fake BIOS layer. But they call this "disabling" UEFI. Hence it's a big fat fucking lie. The things liars tell people who they think are stupid. So, you know, you should be a little pissed at people who think you're a moron that you need to be lied to.
Ohhhhh but we were just trying to make things easier to understand, we were just trying to be nice!
Well, guess what? Go fuck yourself. Stop being nice. Try being honest.
- sctb 10y agoWe ban accounts that continue to violate the guidelines like this. Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cmurf 10y agoI don't see a single item in the guidelines that applies to what I wrote. My derogatory comments were clearly directed at the manufacturers of firmware who lie to users about how the firmware functions. Those lies are far worse and more damaging to users than my appropriate and diplomatic ad hominem attack. I haven't written anything I would not say to any product or marketing manager or CEO of any of the firmware manufacturers, to their face, should the opportunity present itself.