I mostly stayed clear of the SV world while building and exiting my startup, but people like this came and went through my network constantly. They were always easy to pick out based on how much they glorified certain SV personalities and were desperate for their approval.

Same with a $10k tree slicer, when the actually expensive alternatives that really get people in trouble are day trading, real estate, car collecting, divorce, and starting new businesses that fail.

I think he meant a live edge wooden table, not a machine to slice trees.

Bay area housing costs are so expensive that a $10k fancy wooden table starts to look like a reasonably-priced piece of furniture. The expensive thing is the housing square footage to put the table in.

I love his videos. He makes you feel like we can actually fight back and win. If he changed his style I think something great would be lost

I reject the core assertion that there was a "lost decade" at all. I was deep in the frontend industry during that time, and many "use the platform" purists completely missed the reality of what people were building with better abstractions: much more complicated and ambitious frontend apps. These apps heavily used new browser APIs and features, they just did a lot of it in frameworks like React, which these purists despised. I think the era we're in right now is fundamentally different.

Does this mean uncle worm won’t run on it out of the box? A tragedy

Same, and corrupts backup saves

You're getting downvoted but just yesterday it got in a weird state, crashed, and corrupted recent backup saves and I had to do a bunch of work all over again. I still enjoy using it but this scenario on a pretty basic project would be unacceptable in a professional setting.

Kdenlive is amazing. As someone that learned basic video editing through cracked versions of Premiere growing up, I love that a completely free tool can do everything I need for editing without the nonsense of basic editors or tools like Clipchamp that lock ffmpeg flags like 4k rendering behind paid gates. My only issue with the tool right now is crashing and corrupted backups which happened a few times on the video I edited a few weeks ago.

I don’t know why you’re getting so aggressively downvoted. You aren’t wrong at all. This is a term that has not seen such aggressive and widespread use until this administration.

It is so clearly being used to a much greater and more deliberate degree during this administration. Pretending otherwise is foolish

It really isn't—it's all perception. Hegseth has a much more outgoing and public persona so it's more visible.

Heck, can you even name the last 5 Secretaries that preceded him? I can't.

The last one that was this widely known was probably Rumsfeld (Bush II) or Robert Gates during Obama I (bin Laden raid).

The new term Hegseth is boosting is "warrior", not "warfighter".