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    Gotta say, from what I've heard from the trenches, "insanity" and "madness" sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol

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    • J [email protected]

      My phone's name is "Samsung Smart Fridge™" because I think it's hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go "what the hell is a fridge doing here-"

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      That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

      Something like "LG Dishwasher".

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      • T [email protected]

        I use zerg units.

        • NAS is named Nydus
        • Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
        • Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone
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        "Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don't you mean

        S̸̡̗͉̰̭̬͙̲̩̖̫͔̹̓͛̓̈́̋̈́̊̂̕͡P̶̫̱̜͌́̒̐̄̈́́͐̒̅̆̎͋́͘A̴͙̬͇̐̋̓̋̇̋̒̏̀̀͒͡W̷̡̧̙̭̫̅̐͂̿̋̔̏͗͗̔̄͌̈́͝N̷̡̨̙͉̜̲̗̽͆̊̒̽̐̏̾̇̊̋̓̎͝ ̷̛̟͗̈́Ṃ̸̛͖̤̖̐̇́́̏̐́̋Ơ̶̼̤̣̊̎̔͑̈̈́̇̊͝A̸̧̢͇̣̰̫̙̼͈͈͈͉̼͙̻͑̽̿̊̌͝Ŗ̵̜̦͇̲̜̼͕̞̮̱̝̬̯̓͒̀͛̅͐̌͡͠ͅ ̵̧̺͕̖̘̟̭̥̳̪͖̗̤̞̎̈́̔͊͝O̴͓̼̥͆̈́̓̓͗̐̆̐́̀͂̕V̵̡͎͈͈̗̞̺̭̘͓̬̻̦̙͉̿̎ͅE̷̓̃̄̿̓̒̈́̇͋̑͘ͅŖ̵̛͖̣̼̘̜̹̻̜͍͉̫͍̞̉͆́̐̍̓̊̈͜L̴̛͉̜̩̞͇͕̞̟͎̱͛̇̎̓͝ͅO̸̡̧̢̯̭̟̝̺̩͔̬̜̼͚̬̽́̇̃̌̏̎̏́́̓͒̅̓͘R̷̨̫͍̹̗̮̹̯͆͗̕ͅD̶̨̡̪̼͕͇̻̲͊͑́͋̈̈́̔̅͠S̷̥̼̘̾̽̆̿̃̈́̾͆̾̏͝͡???"

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          Hi fellow selfhosters!

          What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
          And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

          I'll start:
          Steam Deck: krax
          Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
          MiniPC: krux
          Reserved for future use: krex & krox

          Creative, I know. 😅
          The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

          I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
           
           
           

          Now let your pants down and tell me all about

          your embarrassing host names!

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          I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn't put it back on and left the default

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          • vitabytesdev@feddit.nlV [email protected]

            My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

            I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

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            I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. 😛

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            • S [email protected]

              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

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              #149

              Lol your arr stack.

              "Jen what did you do?! I told you never open that door!"

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              • K [email protected]

                I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I'm just curious.

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                One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

                [monke, chimp, peanut]

                monke would be [0]

                chimp would be[1]

                peanut would be [2]

                Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. 😛

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                • dave@feddit.ukD [email protected]

                  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.

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                  Slightly unrelated but when my family was remodeling our kitchen in the home I grew up in, we pulled the oven out and found the side of the cabinet had an interesting scrawl on it that must've been from one of the builders:

                  "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer."

                  I found it so amusing wondering what the motive behind that was. So I guess your hostnames kinda reminded me of hidden beer-related tradesman graffiti. XD

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                    All of my infrastructure is named after terminator.

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                    #152

                    Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or...?

                    Lol just had a funny thought:


                    "What's the server's name?"

                    "Max"

                    T800@localhost: ping Wolfie
                    PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data.
                    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
                    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
                    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms
                    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
                    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms
                    
                    --- Wolfie ping statistics ---
                    5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
                    round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms
                    
                    

                    "Your server is pwned..."

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                    • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                      Hi fellow selfhosters!

                      What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
                      And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

                      I'll start:
                      Steam Deck: krax
                      Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
                      MiniPC: krux
                      Reserved for future use: krex & krox

                      Creative, I know. 😅
                      The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

                      I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
                       
                       
                       

                      Now let your pants down and tell me all about

                      your embarrassing host names!

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                      #153

                      All my hostnames are after Zen Buddhist concepts, like shikaku, hongaku, mushin, wuwei, jiyu, etc. My printer is the only thing that breaks this trend, it is named pos

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                        All my hostnames are after Zen Buddhist concepts, like shikaku, hongaku, mushin, wuwei, jiyu, etc. My printer is the only thing that breaks this trend, it is named pos

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                        Why not Saṃsāra? Or maybe it's Rin'ne in Japanese?

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                        • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                          Hi fellow selfhosters!

                          What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
                          And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

                          I'll start:
                          Steam Deck: krax
                          Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
                          MiniPC: krux
                          Reserved for future use: krex & krox

                          Creative, I know. 😅
                          The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

                          I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
                           
                           
                           

                          Now let your pants down and tell me all about

                          your embarrassing host names!

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                          pretty new setup but so far I've got

                          symmetra - synology dsm (nas)
                          junkrat - intel nuc main server

                          need to name my desktop/laptop now and maybe networking gear. thinking ramattra for the router and zenyatta for the bridge

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                          • structureofchaos@lemmynsfw.comS [email protected]

                            localhost

                            Why: for privacy/anonymity concerns

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                            Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?

                            Also, your router must be a bit confusing:

                            • localhost - 192.168.1.2
                            • localhost - 192.168.1.3
                            • ...
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                            • ? Guest

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

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                              Ha! Clever and humerus!

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                              • pero@lemm.eeP [email protected]

                                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.

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                                Nah, just a huge fan of barley tea.

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                                • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                                  Hi fellow selfhosters!

                                  What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
                                  And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

                                  I'll start:
                                  Steam Deck: krax
                                  Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
                                  MiniPC: krux
                                  Reserved for future use: krex & krox

                                  Creative, I know. 😅
                                  The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

                                  I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
                                   
                                   
                                   

                                  Now let your pants down and tell me all about

                                  your embarrassing host names!

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                                  The printer's name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

                                  It never wants to work and always complains.

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                                  • ? Guest

                                    Places in video games is one option for me especially in cluster setups. EG cluster Tamriel has nodes Morrowind, Skyrim, Oblivion, etc.

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                                    "Have you been to the cloud district lately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven't!"

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                                    • M [email protected]

                                      One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

                                      [monke, chimp, peanut]

                                      monke would be [0]

                                      chimp would be[1]

                                      peanut would be [2]

                                      Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. 😛

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                                      Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

                                      • last element is array[length]
                                      • zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
                                      • very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

                                      It feels wrong coming from C, but it's actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don't apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

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                                      • M [email protected]

                                        It's the right move.

                                        I tell you, the first time you're sat in front of a CEO and an auditor and you have to explain why the big list of servers has a highlighted one called C-NT-PRIK-5 is when the fun stops.

                                        Explaining that it's short for 'customer network tester Mr. Prickles 5', and is actually a cacti server never really seems to help the situation.

                                        At least a few of the customers got a laugh out of it being on the reports!

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                                        I just read this as:

                                        you're sat in front of a CEO

                                        the fun stops.

                                        Agreed. Lol

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                                        • swab148@startrek.websiteS [email protected]

                                          You're naming them out of the stuff that specifically isn't space!

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                                          "error: hostname must not be left blank." lol

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