How wild is your approach to device naming?

My fiancé and I name our devices after Pokémon. :) Not our iphones, though. But the computers have pokémon names: Dragonite, Eevee, Gyarados, Phanpy...

My dad used to give his computers names from Norse mythology: Oden, Ymer, Sleipner, Balder etc.

A friend of mine goes for Swedish female authors: Selma, Elsa, Astrid and so on.

We're not very extravagant, but at least we have themes going. :)

When I lived on campus in college I discovered networked shared computers. One of the guys on my floor had shared folders on his desktop and laptop that he named "blackbox" and "blacknote" respectively. The desktop had a huge 30GB-ish library of music and TV shows which was mind-blowing at the time. I loved browsing through and streaming all that music he had on there and it always bummed me out when his computer wasn't on. lol

Sometime in early 2004 I went to a party and saw an iPod for the first time -- a 3rd gen 40GB one. It blew my mind that my buddy could have put his entire shared music collection on that iPod with room to spare. So when I got my 5th gen iPod for Christmas in 2005, I decided to name it "blackbox pocket" because I could have a collection like my college buddy that I could take everywhere.

Ah... good times!

Minors and all that, but I guarantee, either someone will chuckle, or be grossed out. Either way, it's a win for me.

A Saxon's iPhone

I give most of my devices mundaine names to make it obvious which is which, but if I'm playing a game like Stardew Valley, I go a little wild: ponies, pokemon, restaurants, videogame characters, things I can't say here. I tend to be the most creative when naming my instruments in Logic Pro. A lot of them end up being called some form of"thingie" or "cajigger" because of the abstract nature of a lot of the synth sounds I use.

At home: Aquarius, Libra, Gemini…
My wi-fi network was called WhenDovesCry

At my old work, we had Jem, Aja, Kimber, Shana and Synergy. Any 80s cartoon fan will get this reference.

For some reason, my dad had the nickname codemonkey when he started working. So all of our iPhones became all kinds of monkey names. For example, I'm world monkey because I love studying foreign languages.

My wifi's name is Castle Cloud, both as a nod to the musical song and because its pretty. I'm still trying to think of good names for my phone and computer, though. Something to do with libraries or fantasy/fairy tales, I think.

My iDevices are William's whatever and Denise's is Denise's whatever. However, we had to give our Roombas something completely different.

We have an upstairs and downstairs Roomba. the downstairs one does mainly tile flooring, so he is called Little Fucker. Upstairs is all carpet and ht's bigger and auto-empties. Yes, you guessed it right, he is Big fucker. The Amazon devices are fun to try to start up the devices. 😂🤣

I'm like you. I think mostly because I have only 1 Ipad. But, you're tempting me! :-) Also, I've always been afraid that changing the device name would cause problems with Bluetooth, and networks and such.
One of my nieghbor's however... that's a whole other ball game! Their wifi network is named FBI surveillance, and the guest network is FBI Guest.
My brother came to town for something a while back. And he was trying to get his phone and laptop connected to our network. I was in the kitchen getting something to eat, when all of a su.en, I heard a "Woe!" along with a few other shocked and surprised choice words coming from my living room. I started laughing, and went to see what was going on. And my brother said: "Uh, what with the FBI surveillance? Are the feds watching you or what?" which, just made me laugh harder. I said, "Well, I see you found the neighbor's wifi."
Now, it's a joke in my house! One th's's sure, it definitely keeps unwanted visitors off their wifi, that's sure! :-)
I'm curious, what podcast did you hear this on? NOW, you have me curious!

Of course, I've heard of people naming wifi networks, or devices after certain kinds of reapons which, I DO NOT recommend.

Also, I wonder, if you could do this with other things, like, bluetooth speakers.

I simply called my iPhone with my short interpretation of name, because I am tired having different names of iPhones with brackets, hifens ETC. So I named my iPhone as simply my name without the word iPhone. Plus it's much easier to discover it as a wi-fi hotspot like that when connecting from Linux for example.

Named my iPad Pro Hector from Breaking Bad 'cos it never stops pinging. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yq6vCjswaE

And my iPhone, Mr Juke Box.

Well, I'm not very creative I guess. When in an environment where lots of people had iPhones and I was trying to connect a braille display that wouldn't, I renamed my phone porn browser because I couldn't think of another unique name.
Wifi networks can be fun. I, at one point, called my Wifi network Super Killer Virus, at another point it was Clever SSID because someone asked me to come up with a clever wifi name and I couldn't and it is now PrettyFly4AWifi.

We have a few networks around here with some cool names. One person has one called GetYoOwn. We call ours MoFuggaLivesHere.

my devices have really normal names, like Pax's iPhone, Pax's MacBook, Pax's apple watch

I love the what the??!! when people see my wifi, or phone, or whatever. To each his own. I hear ben Stine's voice, "Anyone?" "Anyone?" Anyone...?"

I never even thought about renaming my Apple devices. I guess I always knew I could do it, but for some reason I just never have. So my devices are still "Jake's iPhone 7" and "Jake's MacBook Air", just like my first Mac. Perhaps when I upgrade to another iPhone I'll rename the devices though. That'd be cool.

For about a year, I had my own wifi network, separate from mom and dad’s. They would always watch Netflix, leaving me with not much bandwidth. So that’s why I had my own. I would always mess around with the name of my wifi, as I had an AirPort Extream. One name I gave my network was Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I was always tinkering with some setting or another! I still have that router, as I sold it to my parents when I moved to L’Arche. I have since moved back home.

While I don't name my devices or Wi-Fi network creatively, I've certainly seen some cleverly named ones, such as my own damn internet, get your own Wi-Fi, DEA surveillance van, CIA black site, and orgy over here.

I don't bother. or if i do, i might change it to brad instead of Bradley.