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how do you name your servers/electronic devices /g/?
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Planets and moons
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>>46815872

distroname-lt/de/srv (depending)
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>>46815872
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Pretentious names that tingle my autistic fantasy of being l33t and special.
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After what they are used for.
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>>46815872
satan names
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I use greek mythology
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>>46815879
Me too, though I try to avoid using the names of the Nine Planets. Mostly I go for other heavenly bodies like names of stars, comets, constellations, etc.

Except for my phone which is still called "nexus 5" because lazy
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>>46815897
Malls, Mader, Maind... not good at all
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My battlestation is Navi.
My Latitude is Lati.
My old MacBook is whitey.

So fucking original I know.
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like my waifu harem
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>>46815974
>>46815996
>>46815999
>>46815879
Plebs detected.
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Desktop is Kawaii-PC (mITX build)
Laptop is ThinkPad-T61
Server is Servidor
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>notebook
echolalia
>ereader
rand
>phone
piece of shit
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I gave my Thinkpad the incredibly imaginative hostname of "thinkpad"
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I'm not autistic, so I don't.
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I name everything botnet.
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Singular version of NHL teams with the exception of the Blues, and 2 teams just with the city rather than the team (Montreal, Anaheim). Given a few retired teams, that's at least 30 rather cool names I can use.

Currently using Penguin (Favorite team), Bluejacket (Current state), and Blackhawk (I took a trip to Chicago and rather enjoyed it recently).
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>laptop
ku$h
>desktop
ice-T
>server
xX-BIG-D-Xx

we talking about hostnames right?
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>desktop
TheBox
>laptop
PieceofShit
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>>46815872
gaysexwhorehouse
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>>46815897
>Ben
>Drakengard

Beard.
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>>46815897
>aluls

fuck you
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>1366
>little_turd
>niggadroid
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2hu qt3.14s!
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>>46815872
muharchlinux.
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Birds.
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>>46815897
Wow, that's literally just my name with an extra r that makes it now impossible to pronounce.
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>>46816678
Nurd.
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Various animu characters and giant robots. Stationary devices are robots, mobile tech animu.
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* woona
* derpy
* sweetie
* also had twilly before that annoying tripfag.
I'm a pathetic loser and I'm okay with it.
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>>46815872
Name em after women.
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n : name_starting_by(alphabet[n])+"@"+chemical_element[n]

asimov@hydrogen
boole@helium
curie@lithium

...
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I name them after the service they provide with the suffix RIG

Exceptions: Main desktop is named STRONGRIG and laptop is named BIGRIG

But like if I have a vm serving host, it's VMRIG
Mail server would be MAILRIG
and so on
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>>46815872
Mythological beings. Leviathan, Eros, Selene, Titan, Cronus etc
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My wifi routers SSID is "Generic".
My laptops name is "Number7".
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>>46815897
Toffect
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Daedric Princes from the TES Universe-
So far i got:

Azura
Namira
Sanguine
Nocturnal
Boethiah
Sheogorath

Spoiler: I don't even care for the lore, i just like the names.
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I name them after mechas:

Lagann
Macrons
Liberty-Prime
Gelgoog
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>>46817170
>Shenlong
>Kaede
>Kiffany
last two are characters from a comic my sister wrote a long time ago.
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>>46815872
Devices after cold things

>Frosty
>Iceberg
>Snowball
>Snowflake

Drives after misc architectural elements
Fortress
Moat
Dungeon
Column
Brickshithouse
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Russian weapons
>Desktop
potemkin
>Laptop
Zar
>Phone
T-34

First named the desktop (oldest device) because I liked the association with "Panzerkreuzer Potemkin", the german title of battleship potemkin. Then had no new ideas.
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>>46815897
Naota, I like it.
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For desktop - science fiction, utopian writers(now I am using orwell, earlier I was using dick, huxley, lem)
For servers - novelists(bulgakow,checkhov,tolstoy,prus)
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After anime characters.
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>>46817513
This is the only correct answer.
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Track names from MF Doom's special herbs.
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greek gods
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>>46818065
ohh that is a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3agfk-Yf-M
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>>46817961
Bonus points if it's your waifu
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>>46817961
That looks really cute, where is it from?
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>>46815897
>Patrick
>Gothic II

Pagot
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>>46815897
MANFS?
really?

my phone is VS985 4GLTE while laptop is pantera and desktop is diablo. i have no strict naming scheme.
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>>46818290
Yama no Susume
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>>46815897
Alcani
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Just crapy swedish names for no reason at all!
OLA
Hans-Molgan
Sven-didrick
Konrad
Uffe
Karl
Gunn-Maj
Tobbe
Hans-Frida
Sergeant Tallkotte
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I name them after movie super computer like HAL, WOPR or the gibson.
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>>46818290
Boku no Yama
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>>46815897
>Comet
hhhehehe
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>>46815897
beFTL
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Islands_of_Greece
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>>46815897
Jadil
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robots, hal/glados/tima/tars
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>>46815872
Warhammer 40K shit.
>Desktop
adeptus-astartes
>Server
adeptus-mechanicus
>Router
adeptus-astra-telepathica
>Storage array
omnissiah
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i name them after characters from chu-2
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2hus.

No need to say it. I know I'm a monumental faggot.
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all computers have 4-letter names, generally scifi or anime oriented. laptops have female names, desktops have make names:

>kiva
>cibo
>riza

>bias
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My host name is randomized on boot
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>>46818415
rikka best girl
hairclip a shit
sleepy a retard
deko is ok
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>>46818415
>asian people.gif
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Rezz
Razek
Karas
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>Not calling your main Navi
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>>46815897
>da sex
kek
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>>46818521
That is LITERALLY the worst anime.
>>>/a/
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Household appliances. PC is Toaster, phone is Waffen Maker.
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>>46818570
That's not DBZ.
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>>46818611
Correct. Let's go to >>>/a/ to discuss why I wasn't talking about DBZ.
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[First Name]-[Device Name]
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>>46818570
>Having this poor tastes
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>>46818639
Beats having none like >>46818639 & >>46818521
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I like to use Nordic mythology
Desktop - Odin
Phone - Loki
TV - Thor
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>>46818658
>No Yggdrasil
I'm disapointed son
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SSID's:
Skynet Global Defense Network (5GHz)
T-800 (2.4GHz)
laptops:
ERROR404 (windows)
fubar (#!)
Printer:
Marvin
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>>46818440
Kumin > all else
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>>46815872
"Boot drive"
"Drive1"
"Drive2"

I stopped naming my computer gay shit when I realized I'm the only one who will ever use my builds
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Fancy names for computers
>desktop
chauncey
>laptop
benson
>server
winston

Internal drives Storage #
>Storage 0
>Storage 1

External drives External letter
>External A
>External B
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>>46815897
>Thter
It just sounds like I'm having a stroke.
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Greek deities
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>>46815897
Finds
Fired
Field

None of these are good usernames...
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>>46815897
Caape
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Drive 1: "Helios"
Drive 2: "Daedalus"
Drive 3: "Icarus"

The name of the computer itself is UNATCO.
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>>46815872
I name them after classical composers. I don't know why.
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>>46815872
After the motherboard
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>>46818353
last one is sargeant pine cone
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Sowachowski or Anastasia for most everything I have, exsept my iPhone that one is Allahu Akbar
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>>46815897
Alami
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>>46815897
Cabat? wow okay
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For machines I physically own: Pokemon.
I might not eclipse the original 151 in my lifetime.
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Names of animals with four letters, e.g
bird, lion, bull, wolf, baer, orca
My network is called 'zoo'
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I name my hard drive labels after Talking Heads albums.
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Stuff from the Asgard in the Marvel universe.
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>>46815897
Kris
Bad Company

Krany
no,,,
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>>46815897
>Jaerg

I like it
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I name my actual machines after swords in mythology/literature

drives are just named by content though, so Music, Roms, Pornography, et cetera

>>46820319
Looks nordic, I'd use it

mine is Gaart
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Myname@RunningOS
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Norse mythology
Laptop: Fenris
Desktop: Ymir
Router: Bifrost
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>>46815897
Alta
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Pokemon town names, which are also color names for Kanto.
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>>46820360
so you have a drive called "pornography"?
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>>46815897
Ívar + Ratchet & Clank
Ívank
I Wank....
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>>46815897
>Viass
Sounds pretty cool.
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>>46815872
I did sci-fi supercomputers for a while, then I went to variations of the word "gnome" for a couple years because of an inside joke, now I do plays on the model name or for portable devices I name them after words for wanderers and thieves.

>DeepThought, Gibson, HAL
>Gnomenstein, Gnobot, Gnomercy, etc.
>PanOptiplex, Vagabond, Filch, Rogue
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>>46815897
NIGGA WHO THE FUCK HAS THE LAST NAME SPYRO WTF IS THAT SHIT?
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>>46815897
Mafia, no confusion here.
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>>46820938
11/10
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