I use the periodic table of elements to name them.

@JuxtaposedJaguar Animals that I find cute or funny:

Rabbit, Seagull, Turtle, Mola-mola, ...

Nobody has said it... so I have to say it

Cattle not pets!

All my machines are named 'localhost', welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms

I use famous computer scientists. Torvalds, Kernighan, Ritchie, Woz (for the MacBook). My most recent one was bought in Hampton VA, so I named it kjohnson after Katherine Johnson (as seen in the movie Hidden Figures, she used to work at the NASA facility in Hampton).

I think it's a good system, and I don't think I'll ever run out!

I've gone for a Neon Genesis Evangelion theme, so my router is SEELE, my Pi server is TheMagi, Thinkpad is Unit-00, Laptop is Unit-02, work device is Unit-03 (waiting to build my gaming PC for Unit-01). Then my SimpleLogin aliases are weapons like the sonic knife or lance of longinus.

Lazarus: My desktop PC that randomly died one day and would only work again after literally every component was replaced.
Akamas: My Fairphone 4, named after the son of Theseus, which was my Fairphone 3.

Saeki(from less than friends) cause its an unruly bitch that does what it wants

My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.

"The Cool Side of the Pillow"

(I only have the one)

My computer? Nikkis-pad, cause it always sat ontop of my big ol desk mousepad.

My phone???
Cream daddy of the abyss.

No I will not tell you why

Work laptop is dangerzone

Mine are all named after mythological creatures. It started with my tower being named Cerberus because it had 3 red LED fans and then just kept up from there. Hydra, Thoth, manticore, chimera. I'm deploying Baba Yaga this week, and Ratatoskr will be up eventually

My computer names don't really have a pattern.
Desktop is Neutron, NAS hyperion, old server exscape.

Disks have names from astronomy. Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, Orion.
I just recently named my large NAS RAIDZ2 array Laniakea.

Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".

I call my desktop loseldoom but my servers are fugit and opti :P

• crispy (big server) - was suggested to me, no special meaning
• invader (desktop PC) - no special meaning
• mulex-copan (MacBook) - named after the coffee machine in the game INFRA
• polaris (mail server VPS) - reference to the game Control
• spike (VPS) - no special meaning (though I was probably thinking of the coronavirus spike protein)
• turris (router) - just the router brand which sounds cool so I kept the hostname
• vineta (NAS) - named after the planet from the game SIGNALIS
• whiprock (phone) - named after the island from the game INFRA

the names with no special meaning are generally older while the game references are generally newer :P

computer, laptop, single board computer name, auto, build server

I name devices after what their purpose is and what they do + number.

• My desktop is Aperture
• My wife's desktop is Dovahkiin
• My wife's laptop is Lyndis
• The printer is Vaarsuvius
• The firewall is GlaDOS
• The file server is Atlantis

hydrogen, helium, lithium and beryllium

I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.

I'm pretty boring

HTPC (a vestige from when I used it as such, but now it's basically a Plex server and torrent box)

BIGNAS

HUGENAS

(My name)LAPTOP

• Desktop - Eldritch Mythos
• Laptop - Elder Thing
• Phone - Shoggoth

As for why, I don't know why I originally went this route. The phone is a Pixel 7, so it's name was inspired by the meme.

My servers all are named after their purpose, no theme for them lol.

I used fictional locations:

• Server 1: valinor
• Server 2: terminus
• Main pc: isla-nublar

Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name