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After nuking my old install, I am in need of a hostname. Top comment chooses it.

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[–] Gobbel2000@feddit.de 348 points 1 year ago (6 children)

lemmy.made.me.look.at.this.each.time.i.open.a.terminal

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 34 points 1 year ago
[–] moonleay@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This seems to be the most popular one, though I can't use it in the way its written here, because it will fuck up DNS. I'll substitute the dots with dashes and then it should work.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post a proof screnshot please

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I appreciate you sticking to your word, but this is just stupid. Petition to change it to something sane

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

But should they?

^No

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

I was scrolling to find something good like this

[–] sunred@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Most shells usually default to a truncated version of the hostname that only uses the hostname up to the first dot. Of course one can change that by setting the PS1 env var and using (in case of bash) \H instead of \h.

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[–] jlsalvador@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 year ago
[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

⻚⍿⯽⎻⾘⾄♎ⲱ⬆⒍Ⲑ

I hope all your stuff supports Unicode.

[–] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh look, another of Elon Musk's weirdly named children

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Needs to either visually or phonetically have an x or x like symbol though

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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

senchurwion stwike him woughly

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

And throw him to the floor again sir?

[–] digehode@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

He has a wife, you know...

(Next server name: Incontinentia Buttocks)

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

…Incontinentia….Incontinentia buttocks.

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[–] muse@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

HostyMcHostFace

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

Computey McComputerface.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

With a username like this, I'd give all my hosts and servers moon names. Like the moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto).

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is genius! Why didn't I think if that before?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
[–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people here suggested meme names, but that's actually a really great idea! And the names are pretty beautiful on top of that. I hope OP chooses this despite it being far from the top comment.

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[–] Lemonyoda@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The Expanse itches

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[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

May I recommend the following, from the renown French physician, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin?

guillotine

[–] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

Oh this is good. Mine is just called pain-and-suffering atm

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've got an old crappy laptop that's called craptop

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[–] embed_me@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago
[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago
[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder, what characters are allowed? $0 would be interesting, or even the fork-bomb classic.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Necronomicon

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

friendcredulous

Because it'd be annoying to type often

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

ssh thebaby@issleeping

[–] bosco@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

TurdFerguson

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

My desktop is named Gertrude :) it wasn't until later I noticed the case has a G on it (brand thing). It was meant to be.

[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago
[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 1 year ago
[–] testman@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

"HPE Cray EX235a"

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've always been partial to "wintermute". Not many people will get that reference these days.

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