For personal machines, I use rivers.
At work we use superheroes.
For hobby projects, cute 4 letter words (it's a challenge), for example bubu and alia.
2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)
personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships
We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.
Greek gods.
Zeus, ares, hera, dionysus, etc etc
Royal-Cat-(Computer type)
for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone
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.
My personal domain name is AZK.Ware (azkware.net) so it follows that my machines are called azkware-desktop, azkware-server and azkware-laptop
Various computers/robots from media.
My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop's computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)
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