Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?

They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.

IIRC that’s AVI files that aren’t indexed properly. VLC could either build its own index for the file or it could just start playing the file one frame at a time and hope for the best.

This. ‘Gentle hand wash only’ clothes go in the machine. If they can’t go in the machine, let them be ruined.

People always say they couldn’t give up a good steak, but we’re mostly not eating steak, we’re eating low quality processed meat and you could swap that with other protein and not notice.