Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by 3np » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:07 PM UTC

Pokemon.

Bonus: If you remember the numbers and do static assigment, now you have a scheme to map names to IP addresses in your head. An old Pokemon poster becomes an address lookup table.

Any familiar theme with an ordering (periodic table?) should do the same!

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by resonious » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

I usually just use my name (or shortened username) + the laptop model. Like "resxps" if I had a Dell XPS, or "respad" if I had a Thinkpad.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by zzzbra » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

all of mine are named after songs by the Japanese noise band Boredoms. so far I have TV Scorpion, Mama Brain, Chocolate Synthesizer, Telehorse Uma, Pop Tatari, Seadrum, Super Going, and Domsbore

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by OuterVale » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

I use 'hacker' terms.

I've got Mainframe (my server), Phreak (my phone), Baud (my laptop), etc.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by massysett » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

Names from Black history and the arts: frederick, joplin, randolph, etc

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by qmarchi » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

Devices in my house are prefixed with the owner of the device (CRDNL- or CZZN-) then generally around the reason on why the device was built/upgraded.

For example, I've got CRDNL-NIPPON for a machine that I was intending to take with me to Japan, and my partner's machine is CZZN-VTUBER for when she was getting into being... a VTuber.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by linux2647 » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:09 PM UTC

Human languages. There are more than 7000 and I highly doubt I’ll ever have more than a few hundred devices in my lifetime.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by hermanradtke » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:09 PM UTC

Celestial bodies. Saturn and Jupiter have a lot of moons.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by gavinhoward » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:09 PM UTC

dlisboa wrote: post #12

I name mine after major rivers. Had a mekong, nile, danube. Sometimes it’s wordplay, my first Mac was Potomac.

You beat me to it! And I have had machines with some of the same names.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by lgrebe » Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:09 PM UTC

Frist name of the primary user + device name or [description + year of purchase]

Tim’s iPhone 13 Jamie’s MacBook Air 15

Alternatively function (+ location or for espHome devices their Mac suffix)

Sonos Kitchen Sprinkler-0f3812 hotwater-pump-09ac88