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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx Popular HTTP server

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.

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[โ€“] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago