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At home my systems use Star Wars planet names like Naboo, Coruscant, etc.

At work we use Game of Thrones characters (and we've somehow exhausted that list...)

Firebox to run my Firefox. Other servers I've dedicated to hosting that I don't interact regularly with I have been less creative with, usually my username and something to do with the server.

• Phone: yoda
• Desktop: bb8
• Firewall: c3po
• Switch: macewindu
• NASes:
  • anakin
  • r2d2
• Wireless APs:
  • biggs
  • garven
  • poe
  • typho
  • thane
  • wedge (virtual controller)
• Proxmox nodes:
  • chewy
  • hansolo
  • obiwan
• Raspberry PIs:
  • bobafett
  • lando
  • jangofett
  • quigon
  • rey
  • finn

• Kubernetes Cluster
  • pi-left
  • pi-right
  • pi-centre
• Other Servers
  • pi-katamari (file server & database)
  • pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
  • Alexandria (Synology)
• Desktops
  • Berlin
• Laptops
  • London
  • Brighton
  • Brussels
  • Cambridge
  • Toronto
• Phones
  • Laconia
  • Vulcan
  • Bajor

All my machines are named on some variation of David Bowie albums. Outside - my laptop, Blackstar - server 1, Stardust - server 2, etc.

All my machines are named after Autobots.

From mangas of course!

• YuruYuri San☆Hai! - Proxmox host replacing old YuruYuri bare-metal RHEL server, now with 24-core Threadripper and registered ECC RAM!
• Nanamori-chu☆Goraku-bu (VM on Proxmox) - Replacement of my personal rig, has GPU passthrough
• Nanamori-chu☆Seitokai (VM on Proxmox) - Direct replacement of old YuruYuri working as my primary server
• I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl - Oracle Cloud VM, for high bandwidth and speed applications (e.g. mirror)
• WATATEN!: An Angel Flew Down to Me - Old personal rig (MacBook Pro 16" 2019 with Arch) which is still used for managing Proxmox

Hydra

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_planets

Naming Schemes

i use...colors...

the servers in my and my friends' network are called Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Heracles, and hp_elitedesk (don't ask about those last two

I do come up with fancy names for my laptops though, usually some combination of the model of the laptop and the OS it's running. Void Linux + Thinkpad = "voidpad" was pretty straightforward, but when my next machine was an Alienware running Arch I was a bit stuck. After a bit of thought I remembered that one episode of Star Trek with the Guardian of Forever and named it "guardianoffornow"

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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Basically all mine are from this list (or similar) Star Wars planet list

Everything has some sort of top:

Slacktop, craptop, proxtop, oldtop, wifetop, and batocera (because I keep forgetting to ssh in and change it).

Lizard-King, Salamander-Witch, Toad-Knight, etc ...

short nicknameserv 2 (accidentally screwed up 1.0’s OS and all of my Apple devices are similar format but phone, pad, etc) for my opencore-updated macOS server.

Lnxserv for my Debian server (boring but followed the naming scheme).

I used to have cool mythological names and the like but anymore I want simplicity and it to be more personal than some deity.

I don’t really name my servers anything special (just hperrin-server, smtp1, smtp2, etc), but I like to name my projects after figures in Greek mythology.

• Nymph, my ORM
• Nephele, my WebDAV server
• Soteria, my security camera system

Neptun for the Hardware running Proxmox

Docker-Server-1 and so on for the VMs

My partner and I came up with animal names for hostnames. The first server shall be 'bee'

I tend to use objects in space. My media server is called phobos, and my AzuraCast server is called dorado.

They're a bit meaningless, though, so when I do my planned server upgrade this year I'm going to go with something different. My pfSense server was called sibyl, so perhaps something along those lines.

Workstations machines get first name type names that are inspired by the brand of the machine. This asus is named adam.

I also use mythological names. Specially god names and mainly egyptian gods:

Anubis is my main one, 24/7 server. Ra is the one i use to experiment with and Zeus is my vps with vpn

For some very specialized cases that i used in the past for my Raspberry pi 4, i used Odin (i installed Huggin there), Tenjin (no reason at all, i just like it) and Khonshu

I use famous programmers. First Linux server was Torvalds, first mac was Woz, currently in service I have Kernighan (one of the inventors of C), KJohnson (Katherine Johnson was a programmer for NASA) and Shamir (The S in RSA).

My current server is proxmox2, guess why. It runs servers HassOS, OMV and so on.... My desktop is called desktop and my laptop is called with its brand. 🤷

Travolta, Stallone, Dr.Jacoby, BlackMamba

Delta, Epsilon, Beta, rpi01, rpi02...

tools for my docker host with most services running on it truenas for my truenas host p01-p03 for my VPSs gpu-linux for my AI art and LLM machine

desktops and laptops are all misc strings that windows or Linux comes up with at install time

Normally I don't change the names that the distribution gives to the hostname, but I've been thinking for a while about changing the names to mythological gods or Latin tree names only for server and SBC.

The only server for which I have changed the host name is now r5700server. r5700 for the processor (Ryzen 7 5700), and server because it's a server.

I do random things like the names of vegetables or colors or car brands. But right now I am using Borg designations. Not in use, but an example would be eleven@twelve. Although not a server, I tend to add the capacity to USB drives. They are issued a number and I keep track of them. When one dies it gets deleted from the inventory list. So it would be IssueNumber-capacity 103-04G.