Top comment gets to choose my hostname

moonleay@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 95 points –

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

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

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

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.

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

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

But should they?

^No

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.

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I hope all your stuff supports Unicode.

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

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

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.

biggusdickus

He has a wife, you know...

(Next server name: Incontinentia Buttocks)

…Incontinentia….Incontinentia buttocks.

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).

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.

I'll use this in the future! I really like the idea!

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

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

guillotine

friendcredulous

Because it'd be annoying to type often

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

My current hostnames:

  • baconaxe
  • cooking-phasers
  • quokka-infiltrator
  • ol-shoeface