I've changed hostname of my Raspberry Pi to 🌈💩

Because I express my creativity through shitcode, I named my development hardware appropriately.

It's actially xn--og8h8z because /etc/hostname is allowed to contain only ASCII Latin characters, numbers, and dash, but converting emojis to Punycode using command idn 🌈💩 does the job.

I can log into my Raspberry using command ssh user@🌈💩 however Bash login shell still shows untranslated Punycode hostname instead of rainbow poop symbols, so the support is not yet fully there, and avahi-resolve-address shows hex codes of UTF-8 emojis.

I'm using Debian 13 btw.

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WIPocket@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 164d (2 replies)

because /etc/hostname is allowed to contain only ASCII Latin characters, numbers, and dash

If you really wanna go for cursed, the syscall to change hostname doesnt have this restriction, and I do have a working system with non-ascii characters in the hostname. It takes some fighting with systemd and NetworkManager, and stuff does sometimes break, but it can be done.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 164d

You should file a bug on the broken stuff.

kittenz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 144d

New reason not to use systemd just dropped

snoons@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 164d

Thanks for sharing Rainbow Shit. Might do that sometime haha.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 164d

Cursed in a most delightful way. lol