Random question. I'm planning to buy a new laptop for uni, since I've just broken my ten-year-old MacBook. I have decided on a ThinkPad T450, but I need some help deciding on the hostname.

On one hand, since it's a ThinkPad, I could call it Amethyst-II (my T400 is called Amethyst).

On the other hand, since it's replacing my MacBook, I could call it Pearl-III (the MacBook was called Pearl-II, and my first MacBook was just called Pearl).

What do you think?

Poll Results

1. Amethyst-II

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2. Pearl-III

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20 votes were cast.

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=> ☕️ dce

2024-09-27 · 4 months ago · 👍 thafaker

8 Comments ↓

=> 🖥️ mrrobinhood5 · Sep 27 at 16:45:

you gotta follow the naming conventions for thinkpads

=> 🚀 mycrobe · Sep 27 at 16:52:

How about calling it something new? "Opal", for example

=> 👺 daruma · Sep 27 at 17:41:

Obsidian ?

=> 🚀 DdlyH · Sep 27 at 22:43:

So it's Gemstones, right? If it's an IBM Thinkpad, that's Big Blue, so could go with Sapphire or Bluejohn?

=> ☯️ leoperbo · Sep 28 at 15:06:

I'm posting this from a T450, with (--pretty) hostname "Darth Zannah" (--static "darthzannah"). All my ThinkPads take her hostnames from characters with the Darth title.

=> 🚀 stack · Sep 28 at 19:47:

My daily machine is a T470, an I5 that I got for $75 a couple of years back. My best, favorite machine! It didn't even stop when I spilled 1L of water directly onto the keyboard (It has a drain, as I found out). 'Invincible' is my suggestion!

=> ☕️ johan · Oct 01 at 20:16:

my thinkpad is called "tank" :)

=> 🐙 norayr · Oct 31 at 04:34:

or HAL because that's a shifted IBM.