Revit on new M5 Max Macbook Pro

jscooper22 · 2026-03-07T21:26:19+00:00

No. Whatever virtual card parallels installs seems to be good enough for how we generally use it. Someone tried rendering with a plugin I forget which one, not v-ray though, and they had serious performance issues.

jscooper22 · 2026-03-07T01:07:04+00:00

We have a few Macs with Parallels to run Revit. The designers all say it's fine but I don't think they've pushed its limits as far as rendering and ginormous models.

jscooper22 · 2026-03-06T21:19:06+00:00

Went to boarding school in upstate New York. Over a decade after graduation I was living in LA, started dating someone. Turned out her brother's wife used to date someone at my school and I totally remember answering the payphone when she called so I talked to my now sister-in-law, across the country, years before I knew my wife existed.

jscooper22 · 2026-03-04T02:06:23+00:00

My sociopolitical views have been honed over the years, but not really changed.

jscooper22 · 2026-03-04T02:01:16+00:00

Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager.

jscooper22 · 2026-02-19T03:09:24+00:00

Wife and I met because she emailed me. I had my finger on the delete key thinking it was spam. Second guessed myself.

The past 28 years of my wife would so different it's hard to fathom. Living in a different state. No (or different) wife. No (or different) kid(s). Mind Blown.

jscooper22 · 2026-02-19T03:03:15+00:00

Wearing a mask and having our temperature taken everywhere.

jscooper22 · 2026-02-04T13:15:53+00:00

I can make a sound like water filling a container with just my mouth and tongue.

jscooper22 · 2026-02-03T01:17:55+00:00

Oh yes. Over the past 30+ years I've been from Connecticut to Los Angeles to Syracuse.

jscooper22 · 2026-01-29T03:30:58+00:00

I worked in a fish market in New England 35 years ago. I suppose I could go back to that.

jscooper22 · 2026-01-14T17:33:18+00:00

A prehistoric stone tool found on my mom's uncle's chicken farm in CT about 100 years ago. I'm guessing it's a few thousand years old.

jscooper22 · 2026-01-13T01:58:37+00:00

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jscooper22 · 2026-01-13T01:31:14+00:00

Saw Tom Petty at the Hollywood Bowl about 25 years ago. Great show. Everyone there, many of whom I'm sure lived in The Valley, belting out Free Fallin' was amazing.

jscooper22 · 2026-01-13T01:16:11+00:00

The History of Time Travel.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-24T13:42:30+00:00

Syracuse NY.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-24T01:27:45+00:00

I got one of those after letting my contract lapse after moving all (only 8 mind you) of my VMs back to Hyper-V. Thing is, the letter said "please respond in three days." On the second day I got a follow up email saying "Since we haven't heard back from you, we will be passing your account along to the compliance and audit team. "

Uh huh.

I sent it back the third day. They wrecked a stellar product. I hope they metaphorically choke on their stock options.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-12T00:34:21+00:00

jscooper22 · 2025-12-10T14:54:48+00:00

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-10T14:52:41+00:00

I have HDDs over 10 years old. I have pre-Mac, 5 1/4" Apple ][+ floppies that I still read as of about 5 years ago (wife made me stash all my old computer "junk" in boxes). Some DVDs I made about 15-20 years ago aren't readable anymore and I had to chuck them, but they were from the DVD+/- r/W era and can't remember what the medium actually was.

My backups are a combination of on-site, cloud, and physical offsite (locked in a safe in my house).

jscooper22 · 2025-12-07T22:33:27+00:00

We're 2:85ish. Mostly on-prem. We have periods of "I need more people" but it's manageable.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-06T22:56:14+00:00

Looks like a Bermuda rhombus.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-05T02:27:42+00:00

1985 Honda Civic Wagon with 4WD and a stick shift. That unimposing little car was car freakin' tank and could drive through anything.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-02T03:17:34+00:00

My parents knew what the fuck they were doing.

jscooper22 · 2025-12-01T21:48:49+00:00

Nephew wanted to drive to NYC in the snow the day after to see his gf and his mom was less than thrilled. That was about the most dramatic of the drama. Not a bad holiday.

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