Selfhosted

I use lore from Starcitizen (planet name, space station, satellite, etc.)

I recently de-embarrassed my hostnames. I went with names that are one step removed from being dead obvious. Feels nice having descriptive, but not uncreative, names for everything

• Custom built desktop pc: Studio
• Home theater PC: Theater
• Server: Gamut (this was Nexus until I ran into bs regarding the TLD preload list in web browsers... had to go with a non-tld name)
• Everything else: Based off the model. For example, my Asus Vivobook S 15 is just "Vivobook", etc

cooking-phasers

baconaxe

foot-therapy

Are my current guys.

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. :)

I Used Gondolin for my PC but after reinstalling I didn't put it back on and left the default

weeb ones

My media server is called "The_Nexus."

My phone when I host anything on it is "The Hackinator 9000" because I think it would be funny for a normie to see and freak out.

Used to be names from Neuromancer like "ono-sendai" and variations of that.

Now laptop is "flat", server is named after it's purpose like log, mail, mon, hosting, storage, etc.

They're all some kind of machine. Steam deck: SteamMachineryV1

PC: ArchMachineryV2

Phone: Android_μMachine

Oddly enough my server goes by MonoVerse, which I named first and I guess it just stuck.

Naming my devices after stars. Specifically stars in Ursa-Major

Desktop: alioth Laptop: alkaid Smartphone: alcor SteamDeck: dubhe Server: sarir

Norbert, Norbina, Morbert, Morbina, Hassio, Nassio

I self-host for learning and fun. So I name my home servers with the car names.

| Server | Hostname | car name | |

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| | RaspberryPi | cooper | Mini Cooper| | Old Laptop | Raptor | Ford F150 Raptor | | PC | Hummer | Hummer |

I call them after what service is running on it. E.g. openvpn.

For my servers I try to use names from the Final Fantasy universe. Lately been focusing on FFXI end game bosses.

Kirin (opnsense firewall) Byakko (proxmox host) Tiamat (proxmox backup) Shiva (Nas)

The only clever virtual machine names I care to brag about are: DockBox (VM running docker) Jellxc (proxmox lxc running jellyfin)

Hello!

Well I'm having the following hostnames on my LAN:

• betelgeuse (Beelink server with Proxmox)
• altair (an another Beelink server with Proxmox)
• eudora (outgoing SMTP server)
• polaris (my laptop)
• epsilon (my desktop)

Have fun!

Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

• main laptop (t480 currently) -- Murderbot;
• previous main laptop (x270) -- MB20;
• homeserver -- ART;
• a TV box running armbian -- Miki;
• t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov's "Мастер и Маргарита"), although I'll probably rename it to Holism;
• x230t -- Three;
• a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I'll rename them.