My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).

What are your computers named, and why?

    • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Currently running server3 after some mishaps including a torched OS drive 🫠

  • Thomas Douwes@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    2 years ago

    I like to have different naming schemes for different device classes.
    Desktop computers: Greek gods
    Laptops: Elements of the periodic table
    Cloud servers: Norse gods
    Home servers: Planets of the solar system
    Raspberry Pis: Greek titans

  • Scrath@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.

    My VMs on the proxmox server are named:

    • TrueNAS (I didn’t have a good name)
    • Poseidon for my docker server (Something something docker -> whale -> ocean)

    I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It’s named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago
    • poweredge-t620-0
    • poweredge-t620-1
    • poweredge-r520-0
    • macbook-2011
    • pi-0 through pi-3

    having read all these other comments, i’m now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme… for what it’s worth, my phone is named bob.

  • b9chomps@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I don’t name my computers, but usually name my OS drive Brain and the media drive Pinky.

  • chrisA
    2·
    2 years ago

    I used to name all my devices and servers after old timey womens names but I gut lazy. Now they are named mostly by function.

  • josephc@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    My machines are named after physicists and mathematicians because that’s what I aspire to be. I don’t remember the first three, but the most recent ones were Descartes, Euclid, Fourier, Gauss, Hilbert, Ivakhnenko, Jacobi, Kepler, Lovelace, Mandelbrot, Newton, Oppenheimer, Penrose, Quillen, Russell, Silverman[1]. Next will be Turing.

    EDIT: The network storage is named differently.

    • [1] Named after Ruth Silverman, not Joseph.
  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    My old desktop, now relegated to torrent/fileshare duty, is named USELESS-BRICK (you can guess why)

    My brand new desktop is named SPEEDY-BRICK (you can also guess why)

    The Rpi3 and Orange Pi 5 I use for small compute tasks, a printer server, random fucking around, etc are TINY-BRICK-1 and TINY-BRICK-2, respectively.

    The random ATX server board that I used to use before the motherboard died was FlatBoard, because it didn’t have a case, just a small steel backframe I welded up for it.

  • nik282000@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Damnit, I’m boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.

    Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴‍☠️