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I've never thought about this, but now that you bring it to my attention I think I'd go with a combination of mineral-flower, so for example "tourmaline-calendula".
Also to automate that, I saw that there is this neat website perchance.org that you can use to construct random word generators, I'm wondering if there's an open source alternative though, that would be great

"People" names that are alliterative with the actual machine type. E.g. PeterPi, WillWhitebox, NancyNAS, LarryLePotato

I use Roman authors, with the machine/VM's purpose (often vaguely) linked to what the author was known for. For example, my NAS is called Tacitus (a historian), while my game server is called Plautus (a playwright). A couple services predate my schema (like my Pihole and OPNSense box) and are named descriptively.

Ship names from the expanse.

My PC is the Rocinante My home server was previously the Behemoth, put it in a smaller case so now it’s Medina.

We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.

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.

I started with Die Hard characters (Hansgruber, NakatomiVault for Nas, John McClane, etc) but lately have been doing Back to the Future. I've got a Marty McFly, DocBrown (old server), and BiffTannen.

Greek gods.

Zeus, ares, hera, dionysus, etc etc

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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

Royal-Cat-(Computer type)

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

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

2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)

personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships

My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀

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.

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

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)

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

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

Futurama characters: Farnsworth, Calculon, Nibbler, Wernstrom, Clamps

I name mine after fictional planets.

My NAS that holds all my data is Farnsworth. My file server is Hermes. My Linux VM that does all the scut-work is Kif. My beefy gaming PC is Bender. My beefy gaming laptop is Flexo. And so on.

I name my machines after my cats.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Not just for devices but also my hard drives, I use the names of stars. For example Rigel or Betelgeuse

I use harry potter characters

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