When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animals, etc.
When naming "cattle", schemes that have fairly intricate coded meanings and numerical elements generate things like LDW21-0743 (London, Desktop, Windows, 2021, number 743).
Somewhere between 50 and 100 machines and you need to transition, and it can be surprisingly traumatic.
When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animals, etc.
When naming "cattle", schemes that have fairly intricate coded meanings and numerical elements generate things like LDW21-0743 (London, Desktop, Windows, 2021, number 743).
Somewhere between 50 and 100 machines and you need to transition, and it can be surprisingly traumatic.