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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
AP WiFi Access Point
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
LTS Long Term Support software version
LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
PoE Power over Ethernet
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSO Single Sign-On
VPN Virtual Private Network

16 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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