I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn't put it back on and left the default
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For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.
So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf ("You shall not pass!" Heehee eventually he'll have OPNSense too...)
If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that'll be Samwise!
My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.
For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It's intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.
So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.
Phones and tablets I don't really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)
Naming my devices after stars. Specifically stars in Ursa-Major
Desktop: alioth Laptop: alkaid Smartphone: alcor SteamDeck: dubhe Server: sarir
Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.
Unfortunately there's only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I've got an old windows laptop kicking around that is "rico-w"
... I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.
I go for the unoriginal but oh so simple: location-type-No
So HL-SRV-01 is "homelab server no 1"
HS-DSK-02 is "House desktop no2"
NA-LPT-01 is "Not Applicable" because this is my admin laptop that I expect to move around a lot so I always treat it as high-risk.
I named mine after Rocket League cars.
- Octane (main desktop)
- Breakout (laptop)
- Dominus (laptop; older, larger)
I started with pirates of the carribean, so...
blackpearl: main PC Redpearl: raspberry pi Purplepearl: refurbished laptop. The router is ... router
The phone is zizidane ("donkey dick" in French, also playword on Zinedine Zidane).
So many answers!!
First it was from planets from Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle.
Now it's the names of birds visiting my feeder: chickadee, titmouse, mockingbird, etc.
This is the most solar punk answer ever! XD Love it. That's really neat. I struggle so much with naming schemes.
weeb ones
I have three Proxmox nodes named:
acid1
, freebones
, and a partially decommissioned node aptly named pve
acid1 was named from a sticker I got in a big collection. I was extra sold on the name when I did some research into acid1 tests.
freebones is from an inside joke from a GPT3.5 bot I terribly finetuned using my friend groups entire chat history. At one point the bot randomly said “algebra: you get free bones” and I kind of just ran with that
I have node named pve too. Small world.
- Knowledge - Desktop
- Enlighten - Laptop
- Insanity - Server
- Madness - Router
Gotta say, from what I've heard from the trenches, "insanity" and "madness" sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol
I've named my last few computers after planets, with disks named after moons.
When I worked at Microsoft they had all kinds of clusters - OurGang with Spanky, Darla, Alfalfa... Addams with Gomez etc, Disney with Mickey, etc.
Same, all celestial names.
Nice. I might copy your idea.
I'm similar, but it's internal drives are planets, while external drives are moons.
When I run out of the solar system I'm going to move on to Star Wars.
I use the most boring names: LASTNAME-LAPTOP LASTNAME-PHONE LASTNAME-SERVER LASTNAME-ROUTER
But, living in tight suburban spaces, I'm never confused whether a device is mine or somebody else's.
Me too: firstname-device_model
alice-laptop_XPS
bob-cell_i12
I feel so boring!
Shit. Here I thought I was creative.
I use my alias butter. With either the device or the OS if I'm dual booting or distrohopping.
I use League of Legends regions. Except for one of them which is not a region but is called "lantern" after the Thresh's lantern in which souls are trapped.
I went with Willow related naming.
My main server and NAS is Madmartigan. Proxmox server is Willow. Headless gaming machine is Sorsha. Bedroom/office laptop is Elora Danan Living room laptop is High Aldwin Then two raspberry Pi's named Rool and Franjean.
I'm not even into Willow that much, I just wanted to find a world of characters I liked.
I don't have a whole network setup like the rest of you guys, but I've been naming my desktop pc's SHODAN ever since I built my first one. Secondary/partner's pc is named XERXES. I'll probably never change them.
I usually name my devices after Greek gods and godesses; Artemis, Hermes, Metis, Athena, Apollo etc.
Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.
Norbert, Norbina, Morbert, Morbina, Hassio, Nassio
I use characters from whichever book I'm reading at the time. Examples:
- Arya: From ASOIAF, a small but powerful Ultrabook
- Cthulhu: From HP Lovecraft, a huge 17" laptop
- Horus: From the Horus Heresy books, A powerful laptop
- Binky: Death's white horse from discworld, a white desktop
- Peaches: A rat that always carries a book with her. My home server
My devices are named after planets from Doctor Who: mondas, telos, skaro, villengard.
I use zerg units.
- NAS is named Nydus
- Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
- Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone
"Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don't you mean
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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-"
That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.
Something like "LG Dishwasher".
cooking-phasers
baconaxe
foot-therapy
Are my current guys.
Solar System objects for my local network and names of extra solar objects for my offside servers. With all the moons and named trans neptunian objects in the solar system I so far had no issues finding a hostname candidate.
Colour + noun:
- redbug
- bluecar
- yellowboat
My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.
I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS
I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P
Used to be astronomy based. Sol for actual network and then planets and stellar bodies and stuff. But I have so many devices now.
Now I just make it ass informative with as free letters as possible. Almost everything is 3 or 4 letters long.
So like fsrv for file server, msvr for media server and so on.