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I've ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi's quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I've broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For my clients, we just use company shortcode+role, IE Northern Energy Exchange would be NEE-DC (domain controller) NEE-FS (file server) NEE-APP, NEE-DT-1 (desktop #1), NEE-LT-1 (laptop #1) etc. At home, my network is called Asgard and each device is related to that in some way, all themed appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You gotta have the concepts the machines are named after change as the nature of the machine changes (and bonus points if the nature of the concept is analogous to the nature of the machine). E.g. if my main machines were planets, then when I added servers they would be named after space hardware (hubble, webb, iss, etc). Raspberry Pis can be ceres, eros, vesta, juno, etc. It actually genuinely helps by distributing around within your brain the placement of which machine corresponds to which concept or which name, and also it frees up more names when you start having tons of machines in different categories.

I've had tons of naming schemes over the years (chemical elements and classic video games were two that I used for different banks of machines) and I've done that system with good results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

looks like I'm one of the many that use Star Trek ships for my naming scheme:

Enterprise - My gaming PC
Kumari (Gen. Shran's ship) - my debian laptop
Defiant - another debian laptop (a two-in-one ultraportable)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

After starting with X-Men characters and quickly running out I moved to Star Wars planets as there are a lot more of them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've changed my naming scheme so many times that its practically a set-of-sets at this point. But, "board games" is a good long one if you have a lot of machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried thematic names but I kept adding devices until it all fell apart.

Now I'm using generic nouns like: plaza, highway, bazaar, stadium, minefield, church...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you could start using the names of moons. But a pantheon does sound like a good system too, should also include the titans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do models for laptops and case names for my built desktop. So Dell-3590 or my desktop is NR400.

I know who has what so its easy to manage if i want to cut off network access or transfer files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I name my machines after my cats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...

have to come up with a new concept every other machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use futhark runes for my machines and set an ASCII representation of the rune symbol as the /etc/{issue,motd}

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
SAN Storage Area Network
SBC Single-Board Computer
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I started with Die Hard characters (Hansgruber, NakatomiVault for Nas, John McClane, etc) but lately have been doing Back to the Future. I've got a Marty McFly, DocBrown (old server), and BiffTannen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Futurama characters: Farnsworth, Calculon, Nibbler, Wernstrom, Clamps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use harry potter characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.

Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Usually just names/lyrics of my favorite songs
iPhone: ByeByeBaby
AirPods: You're on your own, kid
Laptop: InnerMonologue
Except just for fun, I named my HomePod Cortana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Used to use characters from Madagascar, swapping over to dankpods references. Dingus, Frank, Sexy Speaker, Old Mate Senny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For work - No need to divulge. It's work/corporate standards likely similar to some folks that have listed here give or take some characters.

For home, Venture Brothers characters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also some kind of Machinery. "GameMachine" for my Xbox "BigMachine" for my PC "MiniMachine" for my Phone "MicroMachine" for my Pi

Except my small 2-in-1 Laptop. That's "decepticon". Because it's an Asus Transformer Book.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

*bble. Rabble Ribble Pebble Pibble Tribble Rebble Jibble Jabble Etc...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not just for devices but also my hard drives, I use the names of stars. For example Rigel or Betelgeuse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@aquova @selfhosted

My personal domain name is AZK.Ware (azkware.net) so it follows that my machines are called azkware-desktop, azkware-server and azkware-laptop

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My devices are all named after things from the Star Wars universe, in particular:

  • Stationary computers are named after planets (my "main" PC is Coruscant, the old "main" that was Coruscant before is now Corellia, etc.)
  • Laptops are named after mega-stations (DeathStarI, DeathStarII, Starkiller, etc.)
  • Tablets and comparable sized devices are named after giant starships like the Super Star Destroyers (Executor, Lusankya, KnightHammer, etc.)
  • Mobile phones are named after regular sized starships (like Tydirium, TantiveIV, SlaveI, EbonHawk, etc.)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For personal machines, I use rivers.

At work we use superheroes.

For hobby projects, cute 4 letter words (it's a challenge), for example bubu and alia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All of my personal machines are Autobots.

At work we use space probes (Voyager, Pioneer, New Horizons, etc). We're a small satellite communications company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Royal-Cat-(Computer type)

for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.

Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.

Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)

personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In college, they were all the secret identity for versions of the Flash. Since then, I've expanded to other comic book super heroes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

urmom = main pc

fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine machines are all named after Final Fantasy Summons/Espers/Eidolons/Aeons/Primals.

My main proxmox node is Bahamut. I try to pick a suitable summon that matches the host but that doesn't always work.

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