I’d expected this but it still sucks.

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

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    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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