That's hilarious! It's a shame he doesn't play ATS and more recent or you could have recommended one of my old[1] video game mods to him

[1] I don't make mods for that game anymore.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnd so now whenever I see a phone I always think of Misty and what happened that day...... And now every phone I will ever have from that point on will be named Misty.......

Oh my god, I had no idea what to expect from this story, and then I couldn't stop laughing! Thanks so much for sharing it! I think you win the thread, sir.

Last edited by Pengling on 21 August 2022 at 1:26 pm UTC

Sure I do, I want to be RFC 1178 compliant!

Since whenever I have used character names from the Sluggy Freelance webcomic.

So far I have used:

• zoe
• torg
• gwynn
• riff
• kiki
• sasha
• aylee
• oasis
• bunbun
• squishydodo

Quoting: CatKillerMy computers when I switched to Linux were called weatherwax, nanny, and garlick. Then I got a laptop called agnes. Then a NUC called kelda. My first Zen build is called wuyu, which Wikipedia informed me meant, "female shaman; sorceress; witch."

When I was at University, each computer room would have a naming theme: different trees, different flowers, and so on; I usually read my email in the Cheese Room.

Makes sense. I bet the systems in the other rooms would spew frequent Out Of Cheese errors.

Fictional Ships

Moya - Living Room HTPC
Dell Optiplex 7050 - OS: POP! OS 22.04 - CPU: i5-7500 @ 3.4 GHZ - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 256 GB SSD
It has a Logitech K400 that acts as its remote and two Atari VCS wireless controllers

Gaming setup - ReDream and itch.io

Weatherlight - My Computer Room - Work/Gaming - Laptop
System 76 Gazelle - OS: Pop! OS 22.04 - Video Card: 6 GB GDDR6 GTX 1660 Ti w/ 1536 CUDA Cores - CPU: i7-9750H (2.6 up to 4.5 GHz) - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 240 GB SSD

It has a keyboard and mouse that have no name brand from 5 and Below that light up (surprising strong since I've had them for years and easy to clean). Literally the box said 'Light Keyboard and Mouse'. It was meant to be a replacement but has been the main for some time now. Two Logitech F310 mounted to Cable Guy - Ryu and Chun-Li. Logitech Z200 speakers.

Gaming setup - ReDream, Steam, Stadia and itch.io

Argo - Wife's Main Computer - Work/Gaming - Desktop
Dell Optiplex 7050 - OS: POP! OS 22.04 - CPU: i5-7500 @ 3.4 GHZ - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 1 TB SSD
Inland Gaming Mouse GM-76 with a Dell KB522 Business Multimedia Keyboard

Gaming setup - Stadia and itch.io

Orville - Child's Main Computer - Gaming - Desktop
Dell Optiplex 9020 - OS: Ubuntu Mate 22.04 - Video Card: Radeon™ RX 550 4 GB - CPU ntel Core i7 i7-4770 3.40 GHz - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 1 TB SSD
Razer CYNOSA CHROMA and Inland Gaming Mouse GM-76 along with 2 Logitech F310 and 1 HORI Fighting Stick

Gaming setup - Steam, Lutris, Redream, Stadia and GeForce Now

Talon - Bed Room HTPC - Gaming/Multimedia - Desktop

Raspberry Pi 4 - 8 GB version - OS: Twister OS
It has a Logitech K400 that acts as its remote and two Atari VCS wireless controllers

Gaming setup - Mednafen

Mr Spider, that's a hilarious story! I hope you had more, well, entertaining experiences as a tech. Might be worth putting it on the r/talesfromtechsupport subreddit, they'd love that.

My naming conventions aren't very interesting, for some reason I always name my machines after types of fish. No idea why.

Quoting: sourpuzMr Spider, that's a hilarious story! I hope you had more, well, entertaining experiences as a tech. Might be worth putting it on the r/talesfromtechsupport subreddit, they'd love that.

I have never been into reddit..... But I was thinking about starting a thread on here for funny work stories....... To get people to think about some good times at work besides that soul crushing busy work we have to do 99% of the time......

Usually i call my pc as primary os + main reason that i installed it. So they allways like
wingaming
LinuxBox (box for beta alpha testing in linux)
MEA-X linux family

Coming from my faible for RTS games, mine where named with the NATO designations of Soviet/Russian fighter planes:

Flanker for the Desktop, as that was their long range ASF
Fulcrum for the Laptop, because the Mig 29 was the front-stationed little brother of the Flanker with comparable capabilities
Foxhound for the server
Foxbat for the phone
Flogger for the Raspi

At this point I feel it's important to mention that I strongly condemn the invasion of Ukraine, and started the scheme long before.

Last edited by minfaer on 25 August 2022 at 5:56 pm UTC

Quoting: minfaerComing from my faible for RTS games, mine where named with the NATO designations of Soviet/Russian fighter planes

Only thing missing is a NAS called Fishbed!