Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.

$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words

I’m in the name after location and function fraction. All but my printer, he’s named Cthulhu because printers are a menace to humanity and it supports wake-on-LAN.

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.

I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

• Walrus
• Martha
• Her-Majesty
• Submarine
• MissLizzy
• Blackbird
• NowhereMan
• SgtPepper
• Jojo

I name my devices after greek gods based on what I’m going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

I named my first gaming PC “Poseidon” when I was doing ship related work. Now it’s my server.

My gaming PC is “Asclepius”, the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn’t do much. I might rename it.

The services that I run on these are just named “device-service” e.g. hermes-nginx

My devices are cringely named after songs in Haken’s discography.

Desktop is MESSIAH. Laptop is AFFINITY. Phone is NIGHTINGALE. Steam Deck is SHAPESHIFTER. Router (and its WAP) is PORTALS. My NAS is the only one that falls outside of this, it’s generically (last name)NetNAS. I should rename it, but I don’t want to break anything 😅

Eta: changed my NAS’ hostname is ARCHITECT. Nothing broke! Yay for me.

The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

It never wants to work and always complains.

Desktop: Octiron
Laptop: Octogen
Phone: Octarine

I do marvel weapons/artifacts:

Phone: Mjolnir

Tablet: Stormbreaker

Laptop: Darkhold

Earbuds: I.C.E.R

Backup NAS: EyeOfAgamotto

Etc, etc 😅

I only have 1 box really, it’s named Hal. Seems helpful, not entirely sure if it’s on my side. Could murder me. I keep an analog shotgun next to it.

I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever

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-”

Devices are named after characters from books I recently read, trying to match the name with the character of the book. But for virtual hosts for services I use their purpose (wiki, files, feed…) because I wasted too much time updating all the bookmarks last time I migrated to a new server.

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)

Server (big iron): Bender

Desktop (main character): Fry

Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

HTPC (one big viewport): Leela