Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it’s an interesting story.

I’ll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. 😅 The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That’s it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.  
 
 

Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

  • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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-”

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      That’s hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

      Something like “LG Dishwasher”.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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
  • marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Great Blue@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • VitabytesDev@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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

  • sandwichwhiplashparrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I do marvel weapons/artifacts:

    Phone: Mjolnir

    Tablet: Stormbreaker

    Laptop: Darkhold

    Earbuds: I.C.E.R

    Backup NAS: EyeOfAgamotto

    Etc, etc 😅

  • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.
  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Physical machines (except my gaming PC) get Ratchet & Clank character names, and matching labels to go with it. My trusty sidekick Thinkpad T14 G1 is named “Clank”. It runs LMDE.

    VMs and LXCs get actually-descriptive names, since those are what run my services.

    Gaming PC is called “Dagny”; it’s a Scandinavian name for “a new day”, since that PC was a gift to myself after my divorce. It’s currently the only Windows machine in my house now.

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Y’all are too creative for me… I have:

    • poweredge-r520-0
    • poweredge-t620-0
    • poweredge-t620-1
    • pi4-0
    • pi3b-0
    • pi3b-1
    • pi3b-2
    • pi3b-3
    • vostro-3525-0
    • ideapad-c340-0
    • killabeezio@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I’m just curious.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

        [monke, chimp, peanut]

        monke would be [0]

        chimp would be[1]

        peanut would be [2]

        Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

          • last element is array[length]
          • zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
          • very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

          It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago
    • Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
    • Terragon: Utility desktop
    • Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
    • Aquagon: Laptop
    • Aerogon: Phone
    • Sonogon: RPi sound server
    • Minigon: Cyberdeck
  • SnachBarr@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

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