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Ask HN: What's Your Hostname?

3 points by chooma 2y ago

Today I got annoyed by the bland hostname in my prompt, 'Choomas MacBookPro-M2', I decided to rename it to something cute: cowfish :) What is your hostname when you open a terminal?

rzzzwilson 2y ago
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".
marssaxman 2y ago
Depending on the machine, it's 'goldman', 'proudhon', or 'bookchin'; the next one will likely be 'graeber'.
theandrewbailey 2y ago
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_Anxiety https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/Installation_Anxi... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY
ttyprintk 2y ago
Early in UNIX proliferation, each sysadmin in my department had a bespoke temporary hostname during manual localization. Flapjacks, Reaganaut, BobsCountryBunker.
drweevil 2y ago
I name mine after my cats, past and present.
- marssaxman 2y ago
  One obviously wonders why you don't cover all three tenses by including the names of future cats as well, though I suppose that someone with a dogmatic view of causality might argue that the future cats would then be named after past or present computers.
efortis 2y ago
On my laptop it's just: $ or when root: # Its color changes based on the return status of the prev command. --- Same on servers, but with their name. e.g. my primary on Vultr is vum $
- chooma 2y ago
  Somehow I hadn't thought of this, now I have this as well, thanks :) ~ $

3 points by chooma 2y ago

Today I got annoyed by the bland hostname in my prompt, 'Choomas MacBookPro-M2', I decided to rename it to something cute: cowfish :) What is your hostname when you open a terminal?

rzzzwilson 2y ago

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".

marssaxman 2y ago

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

theandrewbailey 2y ago

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_Anxiety https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php/Installation_Anxi... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY

ttyprintk 2y ago

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

drweevil 2y ago

I name mine after my cats, past and present.

marssaxman 2y ago
One obviously wonders why you don't cover all three tenses by including the names of future cats as well, though I suppose that someone with a dogmatic view of causality might argue that the future cats would then be named after past or present computers.

efortis 2y ago

On my laptop it's just: $ or when root: # Its color changes based on the return status of the prev command. --- Same on servers, but with their name. e.g. my primary on Vultr is vum $

chooma 2y ago
Somehow I hadn't thought of this, now I have this as well, thanks :) ~ $