I am worried that there is not really a benefit of doing that, just more noise and energy consumption.

  • @DecronymABEnglish
    5•10 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
    AP WiFi Access Point
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

    10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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