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

[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)

[Michael MacTaggert]

It started off unintentionally, but I eventually noticed a pattern of naming my computers after characters from Thomas the Tank Engine. Decided to keep it going.

Parents' home computer: Henry
First laptop: Annie
First Linux laptop: Clarabel
Latest Linux laptop: Mavis
Tessel2: Bertie

[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

[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

[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.

[Yaakov]

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...).

[Anthony Bouvier]

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

[Quentin Sonrel]

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.

[Thomas Landin]

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).

[Gabriel PREDA]

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

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

I name my personal devices after characters from the Asterix comics. :D

My servers are named after celestial bodies tho'.

[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

[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.

[Jesse M. Holmes]

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