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    You have a mighty big hand if you reach l and a with the same one

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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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      I wouldn't say my hostnames are very creative, but they all have some kind of backstory.

      Main desktop: POwOful
      It's a pretty powerful desktop, so why not call it that 🙂

      Laptop: LenOwO
      Can you guess the laptop brand?

      Server 1: Shitbox
      It's my first server box I ever built, so it's underpowered and pretty shitty.

      Server 2: Stowage
      My proper server with actual data parity, and it's pretty powerful

      Server 3: Jank
      This one is another shitmix of hardware with random harddrives in raid 0. I am aware that they'll die at some point, and all of that data stored on it will be lost, so i use it as temporary storage whenever I need to copy something from one machine to another.

      Robot vacuum: suckywucky
      Yea....

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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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        #100

        Y'all are too creative for me... I have:

        • poweredge-r520-0
        • poweredge-t620-0
        • poweredge-t620-1
        • pi4-0
        • pi3b-0
        • pi3b-1
        • pi3b-2
        • pi3b-3
        • vostro-3525-0
        • ideapad-c340-0
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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!

          dave@feddit.ukD This user is from outside of this forum
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          #101

          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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            I envy you so much

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            #102

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

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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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              #103

              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.

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                I use Roman gods. Juno, Jupiter, Pluto, etc. I have a beelink minipc that I named Mellona, the Roman goddess of honey 😆

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                I use Egyptian gods!

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                  I name my devices after greek gods based on what I'm going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

                  I named my first gaming PC "Poseidon" when I was doing ship related work. Now it's my server.

                  My gaming PC is "Asclepius", the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

                  Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

                  My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

                  My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn't do much. I might rename it.

                  The services that I run on these are just named "device-service" e.g. hermes-nginx

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                  #105

                  I do the same but Egyptian

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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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                    #106

                    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
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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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                      #107

                      I use "butler" terms, like:

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

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

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                      • sxan@midwest.socialS [email protected]

                        Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

                        LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I'll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don't get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I'd think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

                        My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is... "lan". Because short.

                        My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

                        Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they're so ephemeral.

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                        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.

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                          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
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                          #109

                          You are missing the Muse for your Poet. 😄

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

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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!

                            pero@lemm.eeP This user is from outside of this forum
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                            #110

                            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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                            • 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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                              wrote on last edited by
                              #111

                              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

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                              • sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zoneS [email protected]

                                I wouldn't say my hostnames are very creative, but they all have some kind of backstory.

                                Main desktop: POwOful
                                It's a pretty powerful desktop, so why not call it that 🙂

                                Laptop: LenOwO
                                Can you guess the laptop brand?

                                Server 1: Shitbox
                                It's my first server box I ever built, so it's underpowered and pretty shitty.

                                Server 2: Stowage
                                My proper server with actual data parity, and it's pretty powerful

                                Server 3: Jank
                                This one is another shitmix of hardware with random harddrives in raid 0. I am aware that they'll die at some point, and all of that data stored on it will be lost, so i use it as temporary storage whenever I need to copy something from one machine to another.

                                Robot vacuum: suckywucky
                                Yea....

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                                LenOwO

                                LenUwU

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

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                                    This is my favorite of the thread.

                                    You can even call one Host, haha.

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                                    Shit, you're right!

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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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                                      #115

                                      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.

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

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

                                          And so on...

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