Pyrrhus

Pyrrhus is the ThinkPad T480 that preceded Hannibal as my portable development machine. The newer laptop taking over that role does not make this one disappear from the setup.

The October 2026 inventory records an Intel Core i7-8550U, 24 GB of DDR4 memory in an 8 GB and 16 GB pairing, and a 256 GB NVMe SSD. It runs Arch Linux. These are the useful details behind the hostname, rather than an invitation to pretend the configuration has never changed.

I want the machine notes to preserve those changes. Calling Pyrrhus the current daily laptop indefinitely would be easy to do and increasingly unhelpful. The interesting part of a small fleet is often how a computer's job changes after another piece of hardware arrives.

For this snapshot, Pyrrhus is a long-serving Linux node with a former primary portable role. Future changes belong in later notes rather than being silently folded into a claim of permanent currentness.