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Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. ๐Ÿ˜… The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that. ย 
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Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

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[โ€“] redbr64@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Desktop: HAL9000

laptop: HALjr

Phone: HALnano

Then HALserver, HALprinter (octoprint), HALhome (home assistant) and so on... Big fan of Stanley Kubrick haha

Tried to get the hal9.ooo domain name but it was taken...

Edit: I use Dave as the username, so that in the terminal it is dave@hal9000, which just seems appropriate

[โ€“] higgsboson@dubvee.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My PC was HAL_9000 for over a decade. It got tedious to type, so it's now just "box."

[โ€“] redbr64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ha I like it. Yeah I skipped the underscore/hyphen for that reason.