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Top comment gets to choose my hostname (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 339 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Oh god

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Post a proof screnshot please

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

2024-02-01-12-40-41-525

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure you can use dots in record data. I know you can use them in zone names.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

But should they?

^No

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I was scrolling to find something good like this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I tried with emojiea and it worked. what would break it though?

edit: nvm something broke after a reboot. neofetch reports the hostname as 'archlinux' instead of whatever is inside /etc/hostname. matlab drive connector reset and initializer dialog poped up which it did not do before.