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

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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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
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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