You guys played films at school? Guess what we had.
One day my school played us a live feed of Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (now known as JeemTV), I’m not even joking. I think they were airing an episode of a cartoon rendition of 1001 Nights at the time. It was pretty cool nonetheless.
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Those were dark times. Linux was very handicapped as a result at the time because many websites would feature some Flash content and you needed to install Macromedia’s Flash Player but I remember at some time they stopped doing Linux builds and you had to make do with an outdated version that’s full of vulnerabilities. We also had an opensource alternative called Gnash but it was a nightmare to make it work.
HTML5 is probably the invention that advanced the internet the most as thanks to it we don’t have to deal with that bullshit anymore.
My father snapped the timing belt in his turbo Passat at freeway speed many years ago. I suspect, but cannot prove, that he money shifted it. He reported that the noise it made was “bang.” I believe it.
The reason I say before 2008 is that around that time VW embraced programmed obsolescence with open arms. I have a 2012 Touran and around 200000 km (not miles) everything started breaking at once. Both driver and passenger side window lifts, front stabilizers and coils (separately), rear coils, gearbox control unit, rear lock, horn, file lines (twice) and now, to rub salt in the financial wound, it lost every drop of oil from the engine into a shopping centre carpark.
Sounds more than anything like a couple trying to establish grounds for divorce back in the day when no fault divorce didn’t exist. You had to claim abandonment or infidelity or some other fault to give yourself standing for divorce.
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