Ask HN: What's Your Hostname?

I name the machines on my network with solar system names. Main machines, laptops and desktops, get a planet name. Lesser machine, like Raspberry Pis, etc, get the names of moons. Some people use the names of the seven dwarfs (Sneezy, Grumpy, etc). You can use any set of themed names you like, but it's less typing if the names are short.

To answer your question, my daily driver prompt is "r-w@earth".

Depending on the machine, it's 'goldman', 'proudhon', or 'bookchin'; the next one will likely be 'graeber'.

My desktop runs a first generation AMD Ryzen, and I named it amd-ryzing. Seems that my optimism was correctly placed for AMD.

toilet was my first server (because it served files), then I upgraded to gram (because it served web pages, too), and they connect to dishwasher (because it's the router).[0][1]

[0] https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/Installation_Anxi...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY

Early in UNIX proliferation, each sysadmin in my department had a bespoke temporary hostname during manual localization. Flapjacks, Reaganaut, BobsCountryBunker.

I name mine after my cats, past and present.

On my laptop it's just:

$

or when root:

#

Its color changes based on the return status of the prev command.

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Same on servers, but with their name. e.g. my primary on Vultr is

vum $