| 3 Jan 2024 |
 crushing-smite | ok, that resolves it | 10:13:12 |
 K900 | Because everyone calls it that out of inertia | 10:13:19 |
| K900 | Except weirdos like myself that make a point of saying "firmware" | 10:13:28 |
| crushing-smite | What was it called initially by ultra-pedantic people? | 10:13:38 |
| K900 | What is "it"? | 10:13:46 |
| crushing-smite | the bios-firmware | 10:13:51 |
| crushing-smite | was it always called firmware? | 10:13:55 |
| K900 | It used to be called BIOS | 10:14:07 |
| crushing-smite | :( | 10:14:14 |
| K900 | As in Basic Input/Output System | 10:14:36 |
| K900 | It's a specific thing that used to exist | 10:14:40 |
| K900 | On like old PC/ATs | 10:14:57 |
| K900 | And it was just something IBM built for the PC/AT and they called it that | 10:15:11 |
| crushing-smite | EFI = firmware, UEFI = bootloader? | 10:15:26 |
| K900 | And then people started making IBM PC clones and those also had to clone the IBM BIOS | 10:15:28 |
| K900 | So any IBM PC compatible computer would have a BIOS | 10:15:58 |
| K900 | (not necessarily the same implementation as IBM, as no one but IBM had it, but same interface) | 10:16:09 |
| K900 | And eventually UEFI came along and now most firmware actually implements UEFI, not BIOS | 10:17:06 |
| K900 | Though most consumer desktop boards also have a compatibility mode that provides BIOS-compatible interfaces on top of the UEFI firmware | 10:17:42 |
| K900 | In reply to@crushing-smite:matrix.org
EFI = firmware, UEFI = bootloader? There isn't really a distinction | 10:17:50 |
| K900 | EFI is what the spec used to be called when it was only an Intel thing | 10:17:56 |
| K900 | Eventually it got spun off into the UEFI Forum | 10:18:24 |
| K900 | And they added a "U" to differentiate | 10:18:32 |
| K900 | (EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, U stands for Universal) | 10:18:48 |
| crushing-smite | Is it possible to feed an existing "real" parititon to the VM? | 10:24:50 |
 @atemu12:matrix.org | Sure | 10:24:57 |
| @atemu12:matrix.org | You can even pass an entire drive | 10:25:04 |
| K900 | Yes, but Windows generally tends to get VERY CONFUSED when you replace hardware under it | 10:25:09 |
| crushing-smite | Since I've dual-booted windows and nixos, could I pass the existing windows as virtualized on nixos? | 10:25:16 |
| K900 | So if you're thinking of virtualizing your existing Windows install, probably don't | 10:25:22 |
