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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
[–] [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)
[–] [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

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[–] [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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

⻚⍿⯽⎻⾘⾄♎ⲱ⬆⒍Ⲑ

I hope all your stuff supports Unicode.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Grass 8 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

senchurwion stwike him woughly

[–] atzanteol 8 points 10 months ago

And throw him to the floor again sir?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

He has a wife, you know...

(Next server name: Incontinentia Buttocks)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I find this answer risible

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Computey McComputerface.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

HostyMcHostFace

[–] DasFaultier 45 points 10 months 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).

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The Expanse itches

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] nkat2112 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

guillotine

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

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

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

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

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

Necronomicon

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

TurdFerguson

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benderbendingrodriguez

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