For personal machines, I use rivers.
At work we use superheroes.
For hobby projects, cute 4 letter words (it's a challenge), for example bubu and alia.
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All of my personal machines are Autobots.
At work we use space probes (Voyager, Pioneer, New Horizons, etc). We're a small satellite communications company.
I've not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.
My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).
My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.
And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes
My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.
I name my machines after my cats.
Various computers/robots from media.
My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop's computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)