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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by aquova@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Discworld characters. My storage servers name is Luggage, my phone is 'Ig', the vacuum is named after a monk.

[–] genuineparts@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Same, but mine is specifically "The Watch"-Characters. Proxmox is Vimes, NAS is Colon, Pi is Nobby, Linux VM is Angua, Windows VM is Carrot, and so forth.

[–] hansmeiser666@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the vacuum is named after a monk

Lu Tze?

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yes! 🤣

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 0 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.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 0 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.

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)

personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I use the names of chemical elements, but with two twists: I assign them in the order in which they appear in the song "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer, and I use the German names. So I have (or had), among others, Wasserstoff, Sauerstoff, Stickstoff, etc ...

[–] emhl@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I use harry potter characters