Hannibal

Hannibal is the Dell Latitude 5450 taking over my portable development work from Pyrrhus.

Moving to a new laptop is ostensibly a hardware upgrade. In practice, there is also the small matter of bringing the working environment with it: configuration, boot choices, remote access and all the assumptions that accumulated on the previous machine.

The October 2026 notes record Windows 11 Pro alongside the developing Linux environment. They also document Intel AMT out-of-band management, including remote-console work. A recovery path below the operating system is useful precisely because the operating system may be the part that needs attention. Its availability still depends on the machine's configuration and connectivity; it is not a promise that remote recovery cannot fail.

This page follows that transition. It is a dated account of the laptop's role and setup rather than a declaration that every remote-access path is finished.