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’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.

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.

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

Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I’ll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don’t get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I’d think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is… “lan”. Because short.

My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they’re so ephemeral.

I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

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

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.

I am a simple person.

My PC: Panda
My wifes PC: notpanda
Docker VM: dockerhost.home

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

I went with alpha, beta, gamma …

I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like:

• Castore
• Polluce
• Lyskamm
• Gnifetti
• etc.

(yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) and smaller peaks for the VMs:

• Grigna
• Grignetta
• Resegone
• Cornizzolo
• Palanzone
• etc.

The printer’s name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

It never wants to work and always complains.

My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

Desktop: HAL9000

laptop: HALjr

Phone: HALnano

Then HALserver, HALprinter (octoprint), HALhome (home assistant) and so on… Big fan of Stanley Kubrick haha

Tried to get the hal9.ooo domain name but it was taken…

Edit: I use Dave as the username, so that in the terminal it is dave@hal9000, which just seems appropriate

My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:

• Moss - physical server
• Roy - physical server
• Jen - vm - main docker host
• Richmond - vm - *arr stack
• Denholm - vm - management, monitoring
• Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
• Basement - vm - development server