How do you name your devices?

Servers either get named for what they do or don't get names because they're disposable.

My home machines have a mythological theme, monsters and underworld or threshold divinities:

• main workstation: lamia (one of many victims of Hera's misplaced vindictiveness in Greek mythology)
• tablet: leinth (an Etruscan cemetery-goddess)
• router: lachesis (the middle of the three Greek fates, who measures Clotho's thread before Atropos cuts it)
• dns box: neti (the gatekeeper of the Sumerian underworld)
• tv box: lethe (the river of forgetfulness in Hades)
• NAS: tartaros (the place of torment for the titans and especially iniquitous mortals)
• spare: akhlys (Greek personification of misery)

My fixed devices are all dog types:

LilDog small laptop
LapDog: main laptop
Kujo: HP Omen gaming laptop
BigDog: server
HomeDog: home automation & media server
SkulzDog: iNtel NUC mini PC (has a big skull on it)

And, of course, my network name is Junkyard :)

The mobile devices all have less creative names ('Pete's iPhone', etc)

It started off unintentionally, but I eventually noticed a pattern of naming my computers after characters from Thomas the Tank Engine. Decided to keep it going.

Parents' home computer: Henry
First laptop: Annie
First Linux laptop: Clarabel
Latest Linux laptop: Mavis
Tessel2: Bertie

I’ve gotten lazy with device naming, but this was the standing order for a long time.

Rogue -> Always my primary device
Morph -> iPhone
Toad -> An old iPhone 3g I jailbroke to hotspot for my Xbox when I was on battalion CQ duty back in 2011. Anything to make the time pass!
Cerebro -> My old home grown media server. Gambit -> iPad mini.
Danger Room -> My SSID

Home/Personal servers are named after countries as long as they are not disposable. Usually based on some stereotypical image of the country.

• Switzerland - NAS
• Hong Kong - Docker host
• UnitedStates - Raspberry Pi Plex client
• Japan - PHP web server

I once asked an ex what to name a computer, and they said to just name it anything.

So now I have Anything, Something, and Nothing.

I also named my Wifi SSID Galaxy News Radio 📻, so my main computer is PipBoy 3000.

(note: emojis in names are hit or miss on whether or not 1. it'll work and 2. it'll work integrating with other things)

I tend to keep 1 pi per side project, so I name it something boring involving the project it's for, like dnsserver, so it's easier to find what ones are on the network and why my dnsserver isn't running.

I try and follow a Star Wars naming convention, with the category of name depending on the type of the device.

I have two USB flash drives named after droids, laptop and desktops are named after planets. My everyday devices take their names from the Rebel Alliance (Atollon, Eadu, C1-10P), and other devices get miscellaneous ones (Coruscant, Takodana, Hoth...).

D&D Monsters: dragon, wyvern, minotaur, beholder, etc.

At first I named my machines after the Patriots' AIs from Metal Gear Solid.

My desktop was GW, my laptop TJ, etc... eventually GW was replaced by another machine serving the same purpose that I simply named GW-Mk2.

Eventually I ran out of names so now I name my machines without any specific logic, my NAS is "Ana" ("AnaNAS" means pineapple in French, I liked the play on words 😀), I even have a machine named E1M1 in reference of Doom.

I name them according to Norse mythology.

My WiFi SSID is Yggdrasil (the "world tree") and my devices are named for gods or entities accordingly. E.g. Oden, Tor, Loke, Sleipner (the names are in Swedish in case they look odd to you).