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I recently switched to using the periodic table. I made myself a nice little spreadsheet to keep track of it all. I used to name hosts after random stuff like cereal, snacks, or just plain old [my first name]-desktop.

On my labs cluster they are named after famous physicists

In college, they were all the secret identity for versions of the Flash. Since then, I've expanded to other comic book super heroes.

2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)

personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships

After starting with X-Men characters and quickly running out I moved to Star Wars planets as there are a lot more of them

I name my machines after my cats.

pi

pi3

pi3v2

space

fusion

magnet

qdivision

Bird species, most of the time. I look for a bird that seems to have some connection with the intended purpose of the box, then use that. e.g. my work computer's hostname is cormorant.

Sounds like you could start using the names of moons. But a pantheon does sound like a good system too, should also include the titans.

I've changed my naming scheme so many times that its practically a set-of-sets at this point. But, "board games" is a good long one if you have a lot of machines.

Different Japanese food from this list, cause they are delicious.

I use futhark runes for my machines and set an ASCII representation of the rune symbol as the /etc/{issue,motd}

My NAS that holds all my data is Farnsworth. My file server is Hermes. My Linux VM that does all the scut-work is Kif. My beefy gaming PC is Bender. My beefy gaming laptop is Flexo. And so on.

I do robots from video games, movies, TV shows, etc.

I started with Die Hard characters (Hansgruber, NakatomiVault for Nas, John McClane, etc) but lately have been doing Back to the Future. I've got a Marty McFly, DocBrown (old server), and BiffTannen.

I've not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.

Greek gods.

Zeus, ares, hera, dionysus, etc etc

Usually just names/lyrics of my favorite songs
iPhone: ByeByeBaby
AirPods: You're on your own, kid
Laptop: InnerMonologue
Except just for fun, I named my HomePod Cortana

I do models for laptops and case names for my built desktop. So Dell-3590 or my desktop is NR400.

I know who has what so its easy to manage if i want to cut off network access or transfer files.

I tried thematic names but I kept adding devices until it all fell apart.

Now I'm using generic nouns like: plaza, highway, bazaar, stadium, minefield, church...

Royal-Cat-(Computer type)

for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone

i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...

have to come up with a new concept every other machine.

My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).

My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.

And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes

Meta machines on my system offer data. Infra machines on my system run the network (infrastructure). But my favourite is naming all my HDD’s platters; Media Platters, Service Platters, etc.

*bble. Rabble Ribble Pebble Pibble Tribble Rebble Jibble Jabble Etc...

I use harry potter characters

I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.

Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.

Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.

Also some kind of Machinery. "GameMachine" for my Xbox "BigMachine" for my PC "MiniMachine" for my Phone "MicroMachine" for my Pi

Except my small 2-in-1 Laptop. That's "decepticon". Because it's an Asus Transformer Book.

Not just for devices but also my hard drives, I use the names of stars. For example Rigel or Betelgeuse

Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀

For work - No need to divulge. It's work/corporate standards likely similar to some folks that have listed here give or take some characters.

For home, Venture Brothers characters.

Used to use characters from Madagascar, swapping over to dankpods references. Dingus, Frank, Sexy Speaker, Old Mate Senny.

My devices are all named after things from the Star Wars universe, in particular:

• Stationary computers are named after planets (my "main" PC is Coruscant, the old "main" that was Coruscant before is now Corellia, etc.)
• Laptops are named after mega-stations (DeathStarI, DeathStarII, Starkiller, etc.)
• Tablets and comparable sized devices are named after giant starships like the Super Star Destroyers (Executor, Lusankya, KnightHammer, etc.)
• Mobile phones are named after regular sized starships (like Tydirium, TantiveIV, SlaveI, EbonHawk, etc.)

looks like I'm one of the many that use Star Trek ships for my naming scheme:

Enterprise - My gaming PC
Kumari (Gen. Shran's ship) - my debian laptop
Defiant - another debian laptop (a two-in-one ultraportable)