[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal de...
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       Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?
        
       I just built a new PC and I'm having trouble deciding on a
       hostname. I used to name them after the CPU inside, but my last PC
       got a CPU upgrade halfway through so the name didn't make sense
       anymore. So I guess I need a new system.  What are some naming
       systems you all use?
        
       Author : fallingsquirrel
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-07-28 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | rbanffy wrote:
       | I've been using sci-fi authors. My laptop is "lem", the cluster
       | is "Gibson" with machines numbered from zero. The Mac Mini is
       | "harlan" after Harlan Ellison (didn't want it to be confused with
       | that Oracle guy). The Windows machine is named "Brian" after
       | Brian Herbert, because he is a terrible writer. There's also
       | Douglas Adams, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Charlie Stross, and
       | many others.
        
       | bhaney wrote:
       | I name my machines after Neutral Milk Hotel song titles and
       | lyrics
        
       | ofalkaed wrote:
       | I use old man names, old man names in this case being those names
       | which where archaic when I was little and only very old men had
       | them. No idea why, just started doing it 25 years ago and kept it
       | up. But hostname for my main computer has always been yeoman, I
       | assume it is because it does the yeoman's share but I really
       | don't remember, might have just been a whim.
        
       | talldayo wrote:
       | username+location
        
         | echoangle wrote:
         | What exactly do you mean by username? Do you use only a single
         | user on every device?
        
       | signal_space wrote:
       | amino acids, alkanes, or elements
        
       | solardev wrote:
       | I'm boring and usually just call them by their function. "Gaming
       | desktop", "TV streamer", "work laptop", etc.
        
       | kristjansson wrote:
       | Descriptive words translated into an uncommon language
        
       | sillysaurusx wrote:
       | Anime names. I'm partial to vegeta and goku.
        
       | dlisboa wrote:
       | I name mine after major rivers. Had a mekong, nile, danube.
       | Sometimes it's wordplay, my first Mac was Potomac.
        
       | woadwarrior01 wrote:
       | Norse mythology
        
       | josefdlange wrote:
       | For a long time I used names of (usually) the transitional metals
       | on the periodic table. It started just as "Titanium" for a
       | PowerBook G4 since that was its codename anyway, but went on from
       | there.
       | 
       | Then it transitioned to plants and trees: aster, begonia, willow,
       | maple. I had a shift in life where I began to value the organic
       | world more than dry, boring metals.
        
       | choult wrote:
       | I settled on US presidents, in order, a while back.
       | 
       | Currently on Fillmore.
        
       | jmisavage wrote:
       | I've had pet rabbit nearly my entire life and tend to name my
       | devices after things rabbits do or nicknames I've given them -
       | hopper, sniffer, nibbler, loafy, etc...
        
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