Basically all mine are from this list (or similar) Star Wars planet list

I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data’s daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GlaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).

vault101 was retired a few years ago and migrated to vault111

My first networked computer, on an AppleTalk network was called “()/)/)/()”

Ir was an Apple Macintosh IIci.

It had that name for less than five minutes. That’s how long it took the network manager to find me and demand that I rename it to something that didn’t appear at the top of the Chooser, since that’s where the ADMIN NetWare server should be.

He suggested “ob1”, and that’s what it has been and continues to be for the past 32 years. My laptop became ob2.

Servers under my custody are called short words, generally four characters or less unless they’re disposable and they don’t get a name beyond what the installation process creates.

My first server was called xenon because I misread Xeon for Xenon but I decided to stick with it. My new server is called argon. For beefy servers I will now go with noble gases. Now that I think about it maybe I will use other elements in the future. Bismut sounds cool.

I have only one cloud VM and called it firstborn. 🤷

All my PCs get names I like Aveline, Elisabeth, Amanda, Eve…

I have yet to decide on a naming scheme for mobile phones.

Networking hardware gets descriptive names for their location and purpose.

My stuff is named after planets / ships in Star wars.

Server is coruscant Desktop is malastare Laptop is anaxes

Portable hard drives are ships

As a huge fan of Stat Wars before Disney got involved and poisoned it (notable exceptions of Andor, some of the animated shows, etc.), I utilize warship names from the Expanded Universe (now called “Legends”) - what I like to call True Star Wars.

My main server is Chimaera. My backup server that also performs as an NVR is Lusankya. My separate mostly-NAS server away from my server rack is Admonitor.

I have sci-fi themed names for the storage pools too (using TrueNAS SCALE on all three servers):

• Chimaera (Main Server)
  • Star-Forge (Apps/VM Pool)
  • Holocron (Storage Pool)
• Lusankya (Backup + NVR Server)
• • Shadow-Broker (Apps Pool)
• • Resurrection (Backup Pool)
• • Spynet (NVR Pool)
• Admonitor (NAS Server)
• • Mount-Tantiss (Apps Pool)
• • Datacron (Storage Pool)

fedora@server

I had them once named after things ( mostly Ships) from Jules Verne Books: Nautilus, Albatross, Formentera, Duncan, Dobryna, Hansa.

No phantasy involved here.

Just my initials & “server” & a number.

Or, if the device isn’t exactly a server, it can also be my initials & “router” & a number, or “bridge” etc.

Oh dang. How fun. I never even considered theatrically making my machines! Mine are super mundane.

• machine - main server
• osmc - Kodi media box for tv
• kmac - old iMac running kde neon
• tunnelpi - raspberry pi 4 wireguard tunnel access point
• mini- Mac mini my wife uses for day to day use.

Now I’m going to have to find a theme and start renaming machines! I might go with Magic the Gathering as my theme.

Edit: formatting, and added MtG as potential theme

Lastname-Server

I know, I’m boring. But at least my laptop and desktop have cool names:

Firstname-Laptop

Firstname-Desktop

My main server is called Master and my server for testing is called lenno because it’s an old Lenovo PC. Ich habe two zfs pools on my main server called Avalon and the newest one is called Pegasus. I named them after the two galaxies from the Star Gate TV Shows.

I don’t have many now, just minstrel (it plays music) but previously they’ve always just be sounds. Rawr, groan, whimper, bark, moan, growl etc.

Except minstrel (it plays music) :p

My home assistant is on an old laptop, so obviously it’s names HAL 9000.