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Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by ycombinete on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:23PM (#39574027)
Unrelated but there’s a retired Warcraft 3 pro called Ente:

https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/EnTe

Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by nine_k on Saturday March 02, 2024 @01:12PM (#39574448)
I suspect that every pronounceable combination of four Latin letters, and a number of unpronounceable ones, has been used as a moniker in the past, often multiple times.
Re:Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative by magicalhippo on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:20PM (#39576731)
Given that each person on earth could give themselves and 6 other things globally unique names using only 8 letters from the English alphabet, without replacement to make the names more unique[1], it's kinda sad that we have all these naming collisions.

[1]: https://www.calculator.net/permutation-and-combination-calcu...