What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have NekkoDesktop, NekkoLaptop, NekkoLaptopJr (new laptop) and NekkoServer :) (Phones are just Nekko with release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)
What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have
NekkoDesktop,NekkoLaptop,NekkoLaptopJr(new laptop) andNekkoServer:) (Phones are justNekkowith release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)I do it similarly
I go with a UUID so I never duplicate. 🤪
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
Culture ship names. https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
I name them after fictional robots/AI
PC is Deep Thought, laptop is Wheatley, phone K9 in etc
I use LoL champs, there’s at least one for every letter of the alphabet
My PC is just arch Linux and my laptop is computer
PC. Privacy reasons
Similar to other people:
laptop-56
phone-56
server-56 (or the actual domain name…)
…palmtop-56 (I’m not sure if that’s actually possible)
I like the look of all-lowercase hyphenated words. And “56” is a conveniently short identifier I use for myself.
charlemagnefor my desktop, andinvictusfor my laptop - no particular theme, just liked the names lolMy servers however previously used gods from Greek mythology though, as controversial as that apparently was (?)…
(To be fair, I think the controversy was regarding doing that in a professional / enterprise environment of which I am definitely not in)