how does /g/ name their devices? i name mine after books

After European cities

Great thinkers like Archimedes.

just make it the same as my username

>>60483690
Characters from Calvin and Hobbes

>>60483690
After transsexual pornstars

the usual way
alpha-beta-gamma
G530-X200-T420

I name everything Unknown device

Used to name them after their device or manufacturer name, but it became a problem after I started collecting ThinkPads and ended up buying Samsungs for everything else.

Herbs

[username]-[devicename]

>>60484811
This is what I do.
>became a problem
How so? Just append the serial number

>>60484851
Cause then Sammy NP700Z7C isn't as cute as just Sammy.

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MLP characters

>>60483690
im writing on dylan klebold

>>60483690
I name them after ex girlfriends.

>>60483690
Famous communist figures.

Not expecting to have more than 4, so they're all Landions from the Kirby series. I guess they're only referred to as individual Landions in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, but collectively, they're Landia.

Whatever the device or it's purpose is
My desktop is named 'desktop'
My server is named 'server'
My laptop is named 'x200'

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>>60483690
After anime girls that have names that kinda relate to the devices function or setup. For example my blade server is named saber and my CentOS VPS is named sento.

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after my favorite anime characters of course!

>>60483690
After the suns/moons of Mirrodin.
bringer = fileserver
eyeofdoom = phone
ingle = desktop
skytyrant = tablet / car head unit
lyese = laptop

Minor devices take on related characters. Memnarch, Slobad, etc...

The three VPSs powering my two small android apps are chihiro, kiki, and eboshi. My other devices/VMs just have generic functional names.

>>60484008
Sad but true

>worked with Windows admin
>wouldn't allow anything to be named according to RFC 1178, not even stuff in the IT office no one sees, because it's "not professional"
>everything has cryptic uniform names that stop making sense as stuff is moved and repurposed
>computer names no longer match corresponding labels on desks (I didn't move them)
>they need to draw maps so I understand which computers they're talking about

>>60487900
I mean I didn't move the computers. Not saying I moved the computers but was too lazy to move the labels. I'm better than that.

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name mine after chess terms
PC-Castle
Phone-Gambit
Laptop-Desperado

Desktop, custom portal themed case and rice
>portal
Laptop, elitebook
>elite
Phone, samsung s4
>esse4
Tablet
>tabletto

>>60483690
the name of the os

>>60485388
I love this setup actually, but having the tower separate the main monitor and the right monitor bothers me

>>60483690
short names of rocket upper stages and orbital launch vehicles

>>60483690
the installer does that automatically so i dont.

>>60483690
Casper. Magi. Melchior.

Evangelion.

>throw a dart at a map
>look at the country it lands on
>find the most common surname of that country
>name new computer

Kinda fun

>>60486092
God you're such a homo

>>60485819
>device name one =
>device name two =

>>60485388
I just sounded the Barney alarm you have 15 minutes to delete your account

Animal + animal part
Crowbeak, moosejaw, parrotclaw, etc

Zelda Companions. It's kind of lame, I know.

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>>60488677
You're just super jealous of my naming scheme.

>>60488608
roll for me I have no darts here, I'll rename my windows laptop I use daily for school.

>>60488946
Gentookowski

>>60488967
fuck off I'll trow a pen

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>>60483690
I name my devices after programs in the Matrix.

My Desktop PC is "Source"
My smartphone is "Agent"
My USB drive is "Keymaker"
My laptop is "Architect"

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>>60488974
it hit india. why even live

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>>60489039
welp, that's it I guess

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>>60489074
>School laptop
>'man of learning'
It is no mistake
It's a sign

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>>60489074
>>60489094
can confirm, feel smarter already

characters from katawa shoujo