Names can be a powerful thing. Each of my devices fall into a naming convention. Some of you probably use practical names, but I'm interested in the fun ones.
My Windows machines are Dharma Stations from lost: Orchid and Tempest.
My wireless devices are astronomical bodies: Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Artemis
Or do you leave the default name?
Discuss below!😝
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My computers are generally named after the branding:
Lenovo
Dell
MacBook
Etc.
Every Apple handheld device I've owned since iPod 4th Gen has been Rocket 00000.
Mine are named after planets.
VPS: Neptune
Pendrive: Space Shuttle
Well historically I've gotten in trouble for naming servers after sexually transmitted diseases (mostly because nobody can spell "gonorrhoea") constellations (mostly because nobody can spell "cassaeopia") and dinosaurs. Surprisingly, everybody loved dinosaurs at school and can spell "brontosaurus" but Upper Management didn't like the idea of our machines sounding obsolete.
I don't get to name the machines where I work currently.
At home, I name everything that's a server after a computer from film and TV; I currently have Sweetie, Arcade, Shoshone and Zen.
EDIT: Oh, and my phone's called Squish, after the cluster lizard from Lexx. No reason.
I actually just started using the books of the bible. It has been so much fun. Currently on 'Numbers'. Genesis and Exodus are my server and MBP.
I use philosophers, so I my personal machine is
popper, my work station isepicurus, I haveschopenhauersomewhere here waiting for fixes and so on.I name them according to Norse mythology.
My WiFi SSID is
Yggdrasil(the "world tree") and my devices are named for gods or entities accordingly. E.g. Oden, Tor, Loke, Sleipner (the names are in Swedish in case they look odd to you).I name my personal devices after characters from the Asterix comics. :D
My servers are named after celestial bodies tho'.
I go for places from fictional worlds, mostly from Middle Earth and My Little Pony. Ponyville, Canterlot, Lorien, Lothlorien, Rivendell, Mordor, and Gondor are some of the names I remember.
I try and follow a Star Wars naming convention, with the category of name depending on the type of the device.
I have two USB flash drives named after droids, laptop and desktops are named after planets. My everyday devices take their names from the Rebel Alliance (Atollon, Eadu, C1-10P), and other devices get miscellaneous ones (Coruscant, Takodana, Hoth...).
I've a server where I am playing around with AI and machine learning. Obviously I had to name it "skynet"
You don't work with Miles Dyson at Cyberdyne by any chance, do you 🤖
At first I named my machines after the Patriots' AIs from Metal Gear Solid.
My desktop was GW, my laptop TJ, etc... eventually GW was replaced by another machine serving the same purpose that I simply named GW-Mk2.
Eventually I ran out of names so now I name my machines without any specific logic, my NAS is "Ana" ("AnaNAS" means pineapple in French, I liked the play on words 😀), I even have a machine named E1M1 in reference of Doom.
I'm a master of chemistry, so I'm using names from the Periodic Table. For example, I name my machines: helium, oxygen, vanadium, etc.
Dinosaurs.... Made up dinosaurs. Lapasaurus, deskasaurus, mediadon, and syncasaur.
My devices are all named after locations or planets from the Metroid universe. Zebes, Norfair, Phendrana, Bryyo, Maridia etc.
My main Android TV => Holodeck
My phone => Spock
Main personal laptop => Enterprise
Work laptop => Marauder
Servers don't get "pet like" names... They only get functional names like:
project-environment-mainrole-id.example.com