I’m in the name after location and function fraction. All but my printer, he’s named Cthulhu because printers are a menace to humanity and it supports wake-on-LAN.

Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.

$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words

My devices are cringely named after songs in Haken’s discography.

Desktop is MESSIAH. Laptop is AFFINITY. Phone is NIGHTINGALE. Steam Deck is SHAPESHIFTER. Router (and its WAP) is PORTALS. My NAS is the only one that falls outside of this, it’s generically (last name)NetNAS. I should rename it, but I don’t want to break anything 😅

Eta: changed my NAS’ hostname is ARCHITECT. Nothing broke! Yay for me.

I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

• Walrus
• Martha
• Her-Majesty
• Submarine
• MissLizzy
• Blackbird
• NowhereMan
• SgtPepper
• Jojo

Hello!

Well I’m having the following hostnames on my LAN:

• betelgeuse (Beelink server with Proxmox)
• altair (an another Beelink server with Proxmox)
• eudora (outgoing SMTP server)
• polaris (my laptop)
• epsilon (my desktop)

Have fun!

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-”

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

The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

It never wants to work and always complains.

Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

• main laptop (t480 currently) – Murderbot;
• previous main laptop (x270) – MB20;
• homeserver – ART;
• a TV box running armbian – Miki;
• t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov’s “Мастер и Маргарита”), although I’ll probably rename it to Holism;
• x230t – Three;
• a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I’ll rename them.

I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever

I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like:

• Castore
• Polluce
• Lyskamm
• Gnifetti
• etc.

(yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) and smaller peaks for the VMs:

• Grigna
• Grignetta
• Resegone
• Cornizzolo
• Palanzone
• etc.

Devices are named after characters from books I recently read, trying to match the name with the character of the book. But for virtual hosts for services I use their purpose (wiki, files, feed…) because I wasted too much time updating all the bookmarks last time I migrated to a new server.

Desktop: HAL9000

laptop: HALjr

Phone: HALnano

Then HALserver, HALprinter (octoprint), HALhome (home assistant) and so on… Big fan of Stanley Kubrick haha

Tried to get the hal9.ooo domain name but it was taken…

Edit: I use Dave as the username, so that in the terminal it is dave@hal9000, which just seems appropriate

Physical machines (except my gaming PC) get Ratchet & Clank character names, and matching labels to go with it. My trusty sidekick Thinkpad T14 G1 is named “Clank”. It runs LMDE.

VMs and LXCs get actually-descriptive names, since those are what run my services.

Gaming PC is called “Dagny”; it’s a Scandinavian name for “a new day”, since that PC was a gift to myself after my divorce. It’s currently the only Windows machine in my house now.

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.