- Garnet: Running Debian Sid, so affected by vulnerability; hastily downgraded to 5.4.5
- Amethyst: FreeBSD still ships 5.4.x
- Pearl: Obsolete and currently unused hardware, so Linux hasn’t been updated since October and OSX hasn’t been updated since 2009.
- Pearl-II: Void Linux still ships with 5.4.x, and the malware requires glibc anyway (I’m running musl); macOS partition still has 5.4.x (which is strange, given that I use
pkgsrc, which shipped 5.6.x) - LapisLazuli: According to Mageia, everything’s fine
- Spinel: Running Raspbian Stable, which still ships 5.4.x
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Damn that’s a really cool way to name your machines!
Why do I suddenly have the urge to rename mines…
I have a funny one. ‘Linux-on-Toaster’ because it get heat upto 100°C LOL
Linux powered kettle
Themed sets of names are so cool I wish I had thought of one. One of my friends names all of theirs after noble gasses meanwhile I have things like albrecht, yoda, echo, cascade, europa, and the one I let another friend name: hairless cat
My main is literally just the model name, my main server is “imaginary-tree” as a reference to Honkai Impact, and the two others are test and test2… So not that creative.
Although I do add “MkX” to show how many times I reinstalled the OS. Turns out, I accidentally broke them a lot-
All my devices, Linux or otherwise, have a host name after fictional a vessel be it water, air, or space. Weatherlight, Swordfish_II, Hammerhead, Pequod, Flying_Dutchman, Serenity, Arwing, Cloudbase, Prydwen, Nebuchadnezzar… I’m sure there are more I’m not thinking of. Nebuchadnezzar is my LTO machine that I can never spell correctly… but that’s fine, I only log in to do an annual backup to cold and fresh install of any workstation or laptop or cellphone to tape and store in my safe. Have been doing that for 3 years now. I have to look up how to spell it literally every time.
Cool! I name my storage drives after weather (e.g. STORM19, LIGHTNING12, REDSPRITE24).
Thanks!
As long as you are informing us with great pleasure, saul goodman
Out of curiosity, is there a reason why your machine is called Pearl-II instead of something like Peridot? I also like your names btw
Well, since I started using the naming scheme, I have several lines of machines. Pearl-II (MacBookPro11,1; 2014) is the successor of Pearl (MacBook2,1; 2007), both of which are part of the Pearl line.
Lengthy explanation
Essentially:
- Garnet - Main machine, which should be the most powerful if possible.
- Amethyst - My ThinkPad (or equivalent) with as much GNU or BSD software and firmware as possible. If I were to go to an FSF convention, this would be the machine I bring with me.
- Pearl - My MacBook, dual-booting Linux and the latest supported version of macOS.
- LapisLazuli - “The Other One”. This machine is the one I use for experimenting, or for leaving at other people’s houses if I visit a lot. As of 01/04/24, this one is probably due an upgrade, but I’ll keep using it until Mageia drops x86_64-v1.
- Spinel - My SBC. Currently a Raspberry Pi 3B+, but Spinel-II should be just around the corner.
- Peridot - My tablet (because Peridot from SU has a tablet). Unfortunately, I chose to buy a crappy £80 Android tablet from Argos, so I avoid using this machine if I can help it.
- Carnelian - My phone. Currently an iPhone SE (Carnelian-II), but Carnelian-III will be something with DivestOS, I am sure.
- Larimar - My PineTime.
I also use the diamonds for my family’s devices, if I need to assign hostnames; and Jasper for any Windows devices or VMs I have to use.
Also, I only bought three of these devices: Garnet, Peridot, and Larimar. The rest I was given by my uncle over the course of about a decade. Essentially, whenever a line gets an upgrade, the other lines rearrange. For example, when I was given Pearl-II last month, it replaced Amethyst as the machine I take to sixth form, so Amethyst replaced Lapis, Lapis replaced the original Pearl, and the original Pearl was retired.
Before I started using this, I just used to use random names that had something to do with the OS, so my ThinkPad was “Nemesis” and my main machine was “Archangel”.
Spinel
Wait a minute…
Same except that was my server (Fedora 40 Beta). I nuked it and installed Ubuntu Server on it and reinstalled everything. Works but man bad timing as I’m moving out in a month
Flawless Garnet
what does Steam use?
You mean steam deck? Custom version of arch. But even pacman is locked by default there so I doubt the naughty package made it there
I think Steam runtime has some xz stuff does it not?
Everything has it to some degree. More important is:
- is it using the compromised version?
- Is ssh package using sysytemd-notify?
- Is ssh server service being open to the internet?
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