How do you name your devices?

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!😝

Comments

[JeffD]

I use the brand: Fuji (For Fujitsu), Acer, or Ryzen
But SUDO accounts are Wesworld characters (rford, delores...)

[Jesse M. Holmes]

I’ve gotten lazy with device naming, but this was the standing order for a long time.

Rogue -> Always my primary device
Morph -> iPhone
Toad -> An old iPhone 3g I jailbroke to hotspot for my Xbox when I was on battalion CQ duty back in 2011. Anything to make the time pass!
Cerebro -> My old home grown media server. Gambit -> iPad mini.
Danger Room -> My SSID

[Dian Fay]

Servers either get named for what they do or don't get names because they're disposable.

My home machines have a mythological theme, monsters and underworld or threshold divinities:

• main workstation: lamia (one of many victims of Hera's misplaced vindictiveness in Greek mythology)
• tablet: leinth (an Etruscan cemetery-goddess)
• router: lachesis (the middle of the three Greek fates, who measures Clotho's thread before Atropos cuts it)
• dns box: neti (the gatekeeper of the Sumerian underworld)
• tv box: lethe (the river of forgetfulness in Hades)
• NAS: tartaros (the place of torment for the titans and especially iniquitous mortals)
• spare: akhlys (Greek personification of misery)

[Markus Cadonau]

I like your naming.
I’m using Greek philosophers and mythology, myself.

[SharpDog]

My fixed devices are all dog types:

LilDog small laptop
LapDog: main laptop
Kujo: HP Omen gaming laptop
BigDog: server
HomeDog: home automation & media server
SkulzDog: iNtel NUC mini PC (has a big skull on it)

And, of course, my network name is Junkyard :)

The mobile devices all have less creative names ('Pete's iPhone', etc)

[Jonathan Irvin]

Let's not forget my NAS, which is named Erebus.

greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Ereb...

[Jesse M. Holmes]

I don’t have it anymore, but I was using a combination of XMBC (now Kodi) and VLC.

[Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez]

This is one of those things my generation solved by watching "Friends"

[Jesse Fulton]

Years ago, I was reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and named my new, fully-loaded laptop "Earth" 🤓. Then I named my new phone "Moon", because it felt like a mini satellite for my laptop. After that, it was all over... displays are named after stars, mobile devices after satellites, computers after planets, etc. I think I'm stuck with the "celestial bodies" naming convention forever now.

[Adrian B.G.]

Stargate planets mostly, or SGC.

[ItsASine (Kayla)]

I once asked an ex what to name a computer, and they said to just name it anything.

So now I have Anything, Something, and Nothing.

I also named my Wifi SSID Galaxy News Radio 📻, so my main computer is PipBoy 3000.

(note: emojis in names are hit or miss on whether or not 1. it'll work and 2. it'll work integrating with other things)

I tend to keep 1 pi per side project, so I name it something boring involving the project it's for, like dnsserver, so it's easier to find what ones are on the network and why my dnsserver isn't running.

[Ben Halpern]

This practice seems so bizarre to me. I think I'd have fun naming things but nothing's ever stuck.

[Shalvah]

I thought I was all alone in this, but then I found you! 😪😪

[Anthony Bouvier]

D&D Monsters: dragon, wyvern, minotaur, beholder, etc.

[Devin Handspiker-Wade]

Home/Personal servers are named after countries as long as they are not disposable. Usually based on some stereotypical image of the country.

• Switzerland - NAS
• Hong Kong - Docker host
• UnitedStates - Raspberry Pi Plex client
• Japan - PHP web server

[David Ebreo]

i name my "screen devices" by their aspect ratio.

tablet 43
phone 32

[Avalander]

What happens if you get two devices with the same aspect ratio?

[David Pellegrini]

I usually use descriptive names for computers. Phones are default because they're replaced or formatted more often. The server was named for quality: piecedemerde