u/Nukki91

Tried installing Alpine on two old laptops (an intel atom netbook and an old x360 running a celeron), with both, alpine installs just fine using the setup-alpine, everything works, when I run setup-desktop (run while logged in as root of course) it goes through the motion of installing the OS, but upon rebooting post Xfce install, Alpine still just boots into the terminal, troubleshooting by asking AI has proved to be a waste of time, a source of frustration and one hell of a prompt for foul language, so here I am, any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I really want to run Alpine on both machines and quite frankly I'm at my wit's end now

Been using FreeCAD since v0.16, I absolutely love it. Over time a large chunk of my work has inched away from mostly modelling towards more of drafting work i.e. the TechDraw bench. While the bench works smoothly for everything I throw at it including some fairly nasty drawings and while my laptop is easily capable of handling it (I know any CAD software is inherently a single core job, but I've got enough clock speed at 4.6Ghz and enough RAM at 16GB, the Task Manager indicates I'm well below redlining my system as I used to do my poor old Celeron), I did come across a bit of sluggishness today while working on drawings (A1 size first time, could that be why?) of the components of an assembly, specifically, section views and detail views were exceptionally sluggish with section views taking their sweet time to recompute every time I open the file again.

My laptop has no graphics card and the iGPU is likely struggling under the recomputes TechDraw is driving into it, does anyone have any experience with the Quadro cards specifically the T1000 and T1200 (supposed to be CAD and Design oriented and not a gaming GPU), helping the viewport run smoother?

P.S. I miss how smoothly Mac would export PDFs from my TechDraw sheets, any good suggestions for Windows? The native exporters in windows are absolute horse-trash and rasterize everything to create unholy large files, and PDF24 while capable is clunky as an exporter but works well enough for post processing, any good alternatives anyone can recommend?

BSCFMT appeared for first TEE in Dec 2025, had 40 (basically the examiner didn't actually read and just decided to say "pass"), applied for re-evaluation for 2 such subjects, marks were reevaluated, one moved to 44, lol, and the other was re-evaluated to 21 🫪

Gradecard was updated also, reflects the 44, but the 21 still shows as 40 and because assignment marks have finally come in (for 3 out of 8 subjects) it's marked as completed.

Will the re-evaluation to 21 be considered valid or not?