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by ticulatedspline 311 days ago
Hard disagree. I've just started looking at some home monitoring and was extremely frustrated by this assumption because literally everyone assumes you already know. Home Assistant documentation uses it, frigate's home page uses it, pages like this use it. It's not ubiquitous enough in the vernacular to simply be a proper noun (eg nobody cares that "LASER" is an acronym).

I finally had to look it up on Wikipedia so I could understand what they were even referring to and "Network Video Recorder" was much clearer as to what the component was. Overall it creates barrier to entry where everyone operates on the assumption that you're only shopping because you're already a customer.