Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

screenshot showing list of hosted apps and resources usage of servers

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    5·
    8 hours 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
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

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    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      DNS is never the Domain Name Service.

      The very first sentence of RFC 1034, the document that is the basis of DNS, identifies it as the Domain Name System.