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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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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NAT Network Address Translation
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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

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