Decronym Bot , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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
LVM	(Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
Plex	Brand of media server package
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
Zigbee	Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

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12 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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