In college, they were all the secret identity for versions of the Flash. Since then, I've expanded to other comic book super heroes.
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I name mine after fictional planets.
My NAS that holds all my data is Farnsworth. My file server is Hermes. My Linux VM that does all the scut-work is Kif. My beefy gaming PC is Bender. My beefy gaming laptop is Flexo. And so on.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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urmom = main pc
fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound
My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.
Meta machines on my system offer data. Infra machines on my system run the network (infrastructure). But my favourite is naming all my HDD’s platters; Media Platters, Service Platters, etc.
pi
pi3
pi3v2
space
fusion
magnet
qdivision
Various computers/robots from media.
My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop's computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)
My personal domain name is AZK.Ware (azkware.net) so it follows that my machines are called azkware-desktop, azkware-server and azkware-laptop
Hi there! The links in your text lead away from the user's instance, here are fixed links that stay on each user's instance: [email protected]