I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
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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 name them after fictional robots/AI
PC is Deep Thought, laptop is Wheatley, phone K9 in etc
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
My PC is just arch Linux and my laptop is computer
PC. Privacy reasons
I use LoL champs, there's at least one for every letter of the alphabet
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)