The T480 Is Back: My FreeBSD 15.1 Laptop, From Boot to Browser

Table of Contents Table of Contents The Machine Today Graphics and the Desktop Wi-Fi: What “5 GHz Works” Means Video Decoding: I Checked the Decoder Bluetooth Audio to the MUVO The Webcam: One Zoom Call, No Drama Power: About 3 W at Idle ZFS, PF and a Private VM Network Chezmoi: Familiar Dotfiles, FreeBSD-Specific Behavior A Rust OpenPGP Card Stack for SSH and Git Agents on the Laptop If You Are Setting Up Your Own T480 I wrote about power tuning my ThinkPad T480 on FreeBSD last year. That was the article you write when a laptop is still a project: get the graphics driver loaded, persuade the wireless card to connect, measure battery drain, repeat. My T14s later became my main writing machine, but the T480 stayed on my desk. Recently I brought it back into regular use. The interesting thing now is how uninteresting it feels. I log in to Xfce, join my 5 GHz network, watch a video in Firefox or Chromium, sit through a Zoom call, send audio to my Bluetooth speaker, sign a Git commit with…