Believe me, the outside of the machine might look pretty but so long as you never open them up you would never know some of the scary hacks I've done.
Like hell I was about to pay something like $200 + shipping for a Tandy external hard drive. A piece of sheet metal and a cannibalized 5/12v wall wart will do fine!
OMG thank you for voicing what I don't have the guts to. I feel exactly the same way, and have to hold my tongue 99% of the time in various vintage groups.
Like, I really want to state again that this sounds really bad and elitist but really, most people currently getting into retrocomputing are building or worse buying machines that simply suck. Like don't get me wrong there are still ways to make them into interesting machines (3D accelerators, specialty sound cards, RAID, oddball peripheral I/O and SCSI devices or even interesting cases like those riced things from the late 90's and early 00's) but even when you glance over to Vogons you see people bragging about some of the worse machines I've ever seen. Those ugly whiteboxes with the rounded edges so they're hard to stack, video cards which are visually the really budget things with some components simply not present, really really cheap sound cards from weird brands that used cloned chipsets or worse use the Vibra chipset, lousy ram, slow CPU's or CD drives that are absolutely filthy. Then while they might have a relatively fast CPU in them you drop DOS into it and after fighting with a VESA driver you call it done but lots of older applications don't work properly because you're trying to run on a 333mhz Celeron or the Cirrus Logic video card is struggling to properly do things in DOS when it's a 9x era card.
The only video of his that I've really taken issue with is where he claimed the Macintosh was Steve Jobs' biggest mistake and that Apple should have stuck with the Apple II line because the IIGS was more powerful than the Mac.
That is actually one of the videos that really really drove me nuts. Just stuff like how the IIgs had more expansion than the plus because it also had slots, but any IIgs user would immediately point out that unless you totally updated the ROMs you could not use both a card in the slot and the onboard device at the same time, plus slot 3 was still off limits to most devices.
Or how the IIgs could handle 8mb ram while the Plus could only do 4. Like sure that is true but if you needed all that ram back then either your program was handling massive datasets you should really be getting a different computer for or your programming was extremely inefficient.........or how he says the mac was black and white with no shades of grey, while in the video you can clearly see pixel dithering.
Okay, I'm done for now.