[karlgkk]

A lot of vintage restorers don't like him and people like him because he goes Wow! Look at This! and then suddenly a bunch of middle aged men with beards have that exact thing on their shelf. And those of us doing preservation and restoration suddenly are priced out of the hobby we've been in for decades.

Also, his technical "work" is not great. In fact, it's really bad. Even his successful fixes show a lack of attention to detail.

It's worth noting that he started his career as a computer scrapper.

[vintermann]

The attention thing he can't be blamed for, and it's in any case a mixed blessing (more popularity of a specific retro computer can also have upsides for the existing enthusiasts).

He's definitively not the best hardware restorer. But his historical videos, his games and his X16 project are pretty nice.

[smilespray]

Yeah, I've seen some fixes that gave me the wrong kind of goosebumps.

I like his history videos, though, for instance the ones that talk about graphics modes for a given computer.

Also, your bio says you don't shave. Sure you're not one of those bearded, middle-aged men?

[karlgkk]

I also live in my mom's basement and write currency libraries.

[benj111]

>currency libraries

Are there some hidden depths to formatting/converting that I'm missing? And yes. I know not to use floats

[karlgkk]

Currency conversions is a fantastically more complicated task than most people realize. Also, performing transforms.

[flykespice]

Most of his restoration work on videos limited to just being cosmetic at best with his expertise just being retrobriting.

When there was an issue on the motherboard, he almost always outsourced to his more tech-savy friends to fix it for him.