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 |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| 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 15 acronyms.
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