Top comment gets to choose my hostname

Oh god

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.

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

But should they?

^No

I was scrolling to find something good like this

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.

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.

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

This is by far the most evil one, I love it.

Here I was hoping that if you took the UTF-8 representation in bytes and decoded it as ASCII, you would get something interesting. But no, just Unicode characters. Almost interesting is that none of the bytes are valid ASCII characters (< 128), which you might expect for the first byte of every UTF-8 codepoint due to backwards compatibility for ASCII encoding, but perhaps not for the subsequent bytes that comprise the rest of the grapheme.

I'm finally starting to understand the appeal of numerology.

senchurwion stwike him woughly

He has a wife, you know...

(Next server name: Incontinentia Buttocks)

…Incontinentia….Incontinentia buttocks.

I find this answer risible

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

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.

The Expanse itches

I’ve gone for colors for my servers and omelette ingredients for my VMs

This made me go down a rabbit hole of server names and I now have a super long list of names from mostly Greek mythology that I'm going to use next time I have a chance

username: dummy-terminal
hostname: redfart.com

@zelifcam @moonleay

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

My $100 laptop is also the craptop! And my desktop running slackware is the slacktop.

Or user balls and host ck

I'm thinking of switching to debian, if I do imma use that

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.

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time

this? https://necrofacility.bandcamp.com/album/wintermute

Ummon would be pretty good too.

I understood this reference

I'm a PC 😉

Linux is more than an Antiwindows