What host names do you use?

[dave@feddit.uk]

When I was 18 and in my first job, my boss and I installed the very first windows NT file servers for a major uk public sector organisation. They were all named after beers that we'd drunk on team nights out. We had Blacksheep, Tanglefoot, Snecklifter, and so on. They were in a test environment so it didn't matter. Until they went into production...

That was over 30 years ago now, but I still usually resort to beers.

[mbirth@lemmy.ml]

Wait until I tell you about all the small issues this zoo of devices brings with it… haha.

[thatkamguy@sh.itjust.works]

My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

[alsimoneau@lemmy.ca]

I use Egyptian gods!

[alsimoneau@lemmy.ca]

I do the same but Egyptian

[scribbd@feddit.nl]

Well I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.

• Main Laptop: Typewriter
• Steam deck: Poet
• NAS: The Lake
• Main Pc, that has become more a render station since I mostly work on a laptop and game on a steam deck: Lighthouse
• Hue Hub: Light switch
• Phone: Flashlight

But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:

• Router: Outer Containment Wall
• WiFi 5/2.4 Dual: ARDAnet
• WiFi for iot: RemnantNet
• GuestNet: OEZone
• VPN: BreacherNet
• Switch: SparkTower

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I use "butler" terms, like:

• Jarvis
• Archibald - used for my old Arch desktop
• Alfred

They serve me well, and I give them due respect.

[wolf314159@startrek.website]

I like your schema. I've used something similar. My hosts have always been sci-fi space/time ships/stations, user accounts are characters from or Captain's of said vessels. Over the years I've had a TARDIS, Serenity, Moya, Out of Bands II, Galactica, Millennium Falcon, Rocinante, etc. It's usually whatever I happen to be discovering or binging at the time I setup the machine. For nearly a decade the TARDIS was my server/NAS because it was bigger on the inside that survived through several generations of smaller devices like laptops and raspberry Pi's named after smaller lighter vessels like Serenity and Rocinante.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

You are missing the Muse for your Poet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLxb7m0j5Jg

[pero@lemm.ee]

Uhg y'all actually have creative names, here are mine:

My homelab - Pero-base
My main PC - Pero-main
My laptop - Pero-portable
My other server - Pero-web

I swear I'm not a narcissist.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

im very lazy now but i used to use tyrande, shandris, and then rotate around any other kalimidor/kaldorei places and people because when i played warcraft i was obsessed with night elves

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

LenOwO

LenUwU

[xyro@lemmy.ca]

I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)

[marighost@lemm.ee]

Shit, you're right!

[isles@lemmy.world]

I only have 1 box really, it's named Hal. Seems helpful, not entirely sure if it's on my side. Could murder me. I keep an analog shotgun next to it.

[Guest]

I use names of bones for my different serves. I have metacarpus, clavicle, femur and coccyx.

[isolox@lemmy.world]

I named mine after different Half Life characters:
GMAN- Server
FREEMAN- Main Gaming Rig
ALYX- Laptop

And so on...

[shiftymccool@programming.dev]

My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:
Moss - physical server
Roy - physical server
Jen - vm - main docker host
Richmond - vm - *arr stack
Denholm - vm - monitoring, logging
Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
Basement - vm - development server

[toribor@corndog.social]

This is basically how I do it too.

I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

So you wanna tell me your NAS is a Data Lake? ;D