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by pwdisswordfishq 29 days ago
Gun nut on the side, he had a rather ill-informed (at best) video on AI a while ago (before the current LLM craze), and has once done a pretty reckless attempt at repairing a unique IBM machine – as in, opening the PSU with a dremel tool and then then bridging a circuit with a paperclip.
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Yeah, that paperclip episode was where I stopped watching.
For reference, here is the video with the timestamp when he shorts the power supply with the paperclip: https://youtu.be/Wh2OCBZpzZ8?t=273

Instead of deleting the video and owning up to his mistake, he just deactivated the comments...

I think it’s an embarrassing mistake that I probably would have entirely edited out if I were him. But I don’t watch his hardware restoration videos because he’s a source of electrical knowledge. They’re pure entertainment.
Same. Realized this guy is a total hack.