My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).
I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.
I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.
I started naming all of my devices based on their number mk1-mk6, then I realized it’s hard to differentiate desktop from phone off a list. Now I’ve got:
Mkr1 - rack server
Mkp6 - phone 6
And desktops/laptops are just mkX depending on age. Then set static IPs based on their number
All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID’s, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like “bastion1” or “ansible” or something like that.
My machines are named after physicists and mathematicians because that’s what I aspire to be.
I don’t remember the first three, but the most recent ones were Descartes, Euclid, Fourier, Gauss, Hilbert, Ivakhnenko, Jacobi, Kepler, Lovelace, Mandelbrot, Newton, Oppenheimer, Penrose, Quillen, Russell, Silverman[1]. Next will be Turing.
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I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone
I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.
I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.
Atomic barbie and my phone is jabrone
My computer? Nikkis-pad, cause it always sat ontop of my big ol desk mousepad.
My phone???
Cream daddy of the abyss.
No I will not tell you why
Daedalus, because I like the sound of it.
The Void - My phone
Previously by color/occupation.
Red Desktop, Music Workstation.
Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.
I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.
SANGUIS DEO SANGUINEO
Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle
Not too creative, but it works.
Game console/system/computer. The DM.
Haha, I like it
I started naming all of my devices based on their number mk1-mk6, then I realized it’s hard to differentiate desktop from phone off a list. Now I’ve got: Mkr1 - rack server Mkp6 - phone 6 And desktops/laptops are just mkX depending on age. Then set static IPs based on their number
My computer names don’t really have a pattern.
Desktop is Neutron, NAS hyperion, old server exscape.
Disks have names from astronomy. Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, Orion.
I just recently named my large NAS RAIDZ2 array Laniakea.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID’s, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like “bastion1” or “ansible” or something like that.
My machines are named after physicists and mathematicians because that’s what I aspire to be. I don’t remember the first three, but the most recent ones were Descartes, Euclid, Fourier, Gauss, Hilbert, Ivakhnenko, Jacobi, Kepler, Lovelace, Mandelbrot, Newton, Oppenheimer, Penrose, Quillen, Russell, Silverman[1]. Next will be Turing.
EDIT: The network storage is named differently.
A self built PC called “The Thing” and “The Beast”, which is a raspberry pi.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
I started using star names a long time ago and never had a reason to change (night sky - not Hollywood, though those are good choices too).