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Started with Evangelion Magi naming and now I just use the pet name generator in Terraform.

Random_pet

pi

pi3

pi3v2

space

fusion

magnet

qdivision

Sounds like you could start using the names of moons. But a pantheon does sound like a good system too, should also include the titans.

Star Trek ships at home. And Game of Thrones characters at work.

In college, they were all the secret identity for versions of the Flash. Since then, I've expanded to other comic book super heroes.

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.

Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.

Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc

I name mine after fictional planets.

I've been doing birds. So far I just have Cardinal, Bluebird, and Sparrow

I use harry potter characters

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)

Used to use characters from Madagascar, swapping over to dankpods references. Dingus, Frank, Sexy Speaker, Old Mate Senny.

I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.

Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.

Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.

I do robots from video games, movies, TV shows, etc.

*bble. Rabble Ribble Pebble Pibble Tribble Rebble Jibble Jabble Etc...

I tried thematic names but I kept adding devices until it all fell apart.

Now I'm using generic nouns like: plaza, highway, bazaar, stadium, minefield, church...

2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)

personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships

Royal-Cat-(Computer type)

for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone

I’ve used Star Trek names before, but in general I’ve just started naming them what they’re used for (ex. Dev-Mint, StorageCore)

i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...

have to come up with a new concept every other machine.

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My personal domain name is AZK.Ware (azkware.net) so it follows that my machines are called azkware-desktop, azkware-server and azkware-laptop

Greek gods.

Zeus, ares, hera, dionysus, etc etc

After starting with X-Men characters and quickly running out I moved to Star Wars planets as there are a lot more of them

I've changed my naming scheme so many times that its practically a set-of-sets at this point. But, "board games" is a good long one if you have a lot of machines.

Different Japanese food from this list, cause they are delicious.

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 brother and I started off a tradition when we named our first family desktop computer 'Kraid' from Super Metroid. Since then every device has been named after an equivalent mob. My personal gaming computer was named 'Phantoon', our 3 phones were named 'Eticoon 1/2/3', our first tablet was Tatori, etc.

Was fun and our dad got behind it very quick as a Super Metroid fan himself.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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I use futhark runes for my machines and set an ASCII representation of the rune symbol as the /etc/{issue,motd}

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.)

We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, 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.

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.