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.
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Used to use characters from Madagascar, swapping over to dankpods references. Dingus, Frank, Sexy Speaker, Old Mate Senny.
Royal-Cat-(Computer type)
for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone
All of my personal machines are Autobots.
At work we use space probes (Voyager, Pioneer, New Horizons, etc). We're a small satellite communications company.
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.
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.
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)
Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.
Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc
Mine machines are all named after Final Fantasy Summons/Espers/Eidolons/Aeons/Primals.
My main proxmox node is Bahamut. I try to pick a suitable summon that matches the host but that doesn't always work.
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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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)