I name my machines after my cats.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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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
Not just for devices but also my hard drives, I use the names of stars. For example Rigel or Betelgeuse
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.
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.)
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.
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)